Range & Space Planning Assistant

Join our team and be part of a company that truly lives its values. With our expertise and commitment to innovation, we aim to build trust and make health and wellness accessible to all. By fostering inclusivity and care, we work collaboratively to improve the well-being of our colleagues, customers, and communities.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Range & Space planning team at Holland & Barrett as Range & Space Planning Assistant. This role offers a great opportunity to build your career in one of the nation's leading retail brands and be involved and help support retail space & merchandising change.

You could be working in a similar marketing, category or merchandising role or will have a keen interest in joining the retail sector and learning about everything space planning for our stores!  Most of all we are looking for someone who has a good administrative background along with outstanding planning and organisational skills, a keen eye for detail and a creative flair!  You will also need to be able to travel to our Nuneaton office at least 2-3 days per week.

The Role

The Purpose of the Role:   

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Space Planners on projects during planning, prep & delivery and deputising when required.
• During the range review process own the creation & updating of selected groups of planograms based on the Master planograms created by the Space Planner & brief for the project.
• Lead small projects to support the Space Planner owning planograms updates & engagement with key stakeholders.
• Own the product sample process ensuring physical samples are available for all existing & new products to support accurate review & sign off of projects
• Own the accuracy of product dimension data for new & existing products to ensure the accuracy of planograms & right first time implementation for stores.
• Support the Space Planners with collation & validation of space & performance data.
• While working cross functionally, action physical merchandising builds within our head office ‘mock shop'. Ensure product samples and any additional fixture requirements arrive within a timely fashion
• Alongside the other Assistants own the stores feedback process ensuring all stores queries are reviewed, responded to & resolve in a timely manner in line with agreed SLA'S.
• Key Support in all store merchandising trials and projects
• Support the overall store merchandising team when required during peak workload times.
• Along with the other Assistants take ownership of coordinating the planning & maintenance of the range review Mockshop from a Merch point of view.

Location:
This role is based in Nuneaton, and may be occasionally required to travel to our London Hub or to any other location of H&B. We support flexibility and productivity of our employees by hybrid working arrangements with minimum 2 days presence in the office.

The Person

Key Requirements: 

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well in a team, with the ability to build strong successful working relationships cross functionally
• Strong attention to detail
• Well organised and able to prioritise own work
• Ability to learn new systems and processes
• Confident, open minded and happy to challenge the norm as well as present to peers
• Strong Excel skills with the ability to learn new systems quickly

What we offer

Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:

• H&B Employee Discount - 25%
• Pension company contribution
• Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
• And many more!

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B. 

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