The Space Planning Specialist plays a critical role in optimizing product placement and planograms across retail channels to drive visibility, shopper engagement, and sales growth. This position requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure execution excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Planogram Development: Design and maintain planograms for key retail accounts, ensuring compliance with category strategies and merchandising standards.
Data Analysis: Utilize tools like Power BI and internal reporting systems to analyze sales and space performance, providing actionable insights to stakeholders.
Collaboration: Work closely with Channel Development, Sales, and Marketing teams to align space planning initiatives with promotional calendars and trade strategies.
Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for automation and sustainability in reporting and planogram processes.
Compliance & Standards: Ensure adherence to Nestlé merchandising guidelines and retailer requirements.
Key Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field.
Minimum 3-5 years of experience in space planning, category management, or retail merchandising (FMCG experience preferred).
Proficiency in planogram software (e.g., JDA, Apollo) and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
As the world’s largest food and beverage company we are driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, we serve with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families. Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for the future.
We can trace our origin back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland.
Today, we employ around 273,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. With our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 84.3 billion in 2020.
Our portfolio covers almost every food and beverage category – offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.
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