Associate Space Planner

**The Role**:
**Job Title: Associate Space Planner**

**Job Location: Bangalore/Chennai**

**Where you fit?**

Shell is looking to strengthen their Space Planning function by recruiting an experienced Space Planner specialising in macro and micro space planning.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, specialised department within the newly formed team and really make your mark in Convenience Retail. Shell have recently implemented new space software to help support their micro and macro space. The Space Planner will be fully involved in managing the existing shop plans, planograms and identifying opportunities to increase space performance across different markets. This role comes with high degree of autonomy.

**What’s the role?**

oCreating macro space layouts for new shops and analysing existing performance to ensure each shop has the optimal category space to maximise the shop profitability.

oWorking closely with Shop Format managers within markets to create and maintain shop plans and linking in the relevant planograms.

oDeliver planogram creation and maintenance to meet business needs of regularly scheduled and adhoc requests for; merchandise sets, new stores, remodels and special projects.
- Work closely with Category Management to deliver visually appealing versioned planograms based on store clustering, space definitions and defined flow in accordance with agreed service level agreements (SLA).
- Analysing performance to optimise the range across the various sizes of Planogram and Shop Formats
- Enable and ensure more data science driven Macro and Micro Space planning

**What we need from you?**

Stakeholder Engagement Skills
- Identify actionable insights that directly address challenges / opportunities
- Articulate business insights and recommendations (based on model output) to respective stakeholders
- Understanding business KPI's, frameworks and drivers for performance
- Proficiency Level**: Skill**

Industry / Functional Expertise
- At least 4 years’ relevant experience within the Retail industry, ideally within a Space Planning role
- Ideally some experience with any Micro Space planning tools (Spaceman preferable)
- Component with CAD design software
- Good analytical skills
- Good communication skills
- Competent with Excel & Word
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage a fluid workload
- Proficiency Level**:Skill**

Modeling and Technology Skills
- Strong experience in specialized analytics tools and technologies (including, but not limited to)
- Neilson SpaceMan
- Identify the right approach(es) for given scenario and articulate why the approach fits
- Assess data availability and design feasibility
- Review interpretation of design results
- Evaluate fitment based on business / function scenario
- Proficiency Level**:Skill**

Special Challenges

Experience
- 2-4 years of relevant experience in Retail domain
- Advanced university degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, Quantitative Finance, OR, etc.
- Good interpersonal communication skills and influencing skills
- Eagerness to learn and ability to work with limited supervision

**_ Company Description _**

Shell Business Operations (SBO) is a chain of operational centers that form an integral part of Royal Dutch Shell. We influence business development for Shell globally, enabling the work of 93,000 employees in over 70 countries across the world. SBO Chennai is focused on driving excellent performance that enable Shell to operate in a global competitive and ever-changing business environment.

**_ An Innovative Place to Work_**

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future - whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

**_ An Inclusive & Progressive Place to Work_**

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