Job Description
About Ace Retail Holdings Ace Retail Holdings (ARH), the division of Ace Hardware Corporation that owns and operates the Great Lakes and Westlake Ace Hardware chains, is one of the largest hardware retailers in the United States. ARH has been in operation for over a century and operates over 220 neighborhood stores located throughout the United States. Great people make ARH stand out in our industry, and we are looking for individuals who strive for personal and professional growth, and who want to work with a company dedicated to serving our customers and communities.
Service, Passion, Respect, Integrity, Teamwork and Excellence Job Title: Space Planning Specialist
Department: Visual Merchandising
Reports To: Space Planning Manager
Exemption Status: Exempt (Salaried)
About Ace Retail Holdings
Ace Retail Holdings (ARH), the division of Ace Hardware Corporation that owns and operates the Great Lakes and Westlake Ace Hardware chains, is one of the largest hardware retailers in the United States. ARH has been in operation for over a century and operates over 220 neighborhood stores located throughout the United States. Great people make ARH stand out in our industry, and we are looking for individuals who strive for personal and professional growth, and who want to work with a company dedicated to serving our customers and communities.
General Job Summary The Space Planning Specialist is responsible for the development and procurement of store fixtures and Point-of-Purchase (POP) materials; the development and maintenance of store layouts, and; the creation and maintenance of product planograms.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Store Support
•Responsible for identification and procurement of Point-of Purchase (POP) materials for new and existing stores.
•Responsible for the identification and procurement of fixtures (gondola and non-gondola) for new and existing stores. Work with ACE partners to support fulfillment and custom fixture orders for overall store projects or store-specific programs (Stihl, etc.).
•Support the Merchandising team with category footage recommendations for proposed resets, utilizing planogram performance reporting to develop store specific recommendations.
•Support major rollouts (Stihl, Benjamin Moore, etc.), product presentations (Backyards & BBQ, Pet Shop, etc.) and ACE level 3 (multi-categories within a department) reset initiatives providing adjacency, positioning and flow recommendations and adjustments to store layouts where necessary.
New/Remodel Store Responsibilities
•Develop store layouts, including fixtures and merchandise placement for new and remodel stores.
•Work with Facility Manager on store layout placement of electrical, signage, structure and other utility concerns on new and existing stores.
•Visit new/remodel/existing stores to create store layouts of fixtures and merchandise.
Planogramming
•Facilitate planogram status meetings with key members of the Merchandising, Inventory Management and Pricing departments.
•Assist Merchant and Vendor partners with the development and maintenance of planograms.
•Accurately capture product height, width, depth and merchandise style of all items that we carry.
•Produce reports to identify mock-ups and other items needing to be submitted to ensure planogram integrity.
•Utilize JDA, ProSpace, Word and Excel to complete job functions.
•Utilize ProSpace in the creation of planograms.
•Other duties as assigned.
Other Essential Requirements
Ability to exhibit and incorporate our Core Values into daily decisions and interactions with others:
o WINNING - In business, money is the score. To win, we must perform, compete, and have fun. At Ace, we win through people- our strength is being helpful.
o EXCELLENCE - Excellence honors God and inspires people. We aspire to be the best, to continuously improve and to inspire others by giving the team our very best.
o LOVE - Love the people, love the work and love the results.
o INTEGRITY - For Ace to win, we need to be able to trust each other. And trust will require us to be honest, reliable, caring, of high character and of unquestioned ethics.
o GRATITUDE - We recognize that we are blessed to be in the business of serving others.
o HUMILITY - We strive for greatness with a humble, modest and respectful attitude.
o TEAMWORK - We will fight the natural tendency for control and credit in favor of collaboration and mutual success, recognizing that...Together, we are Ace.
Minimum Skills, Requirements and Qualifications
•BS/BA Degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Degree in Business Management or Drafting and background experience with ProSpace and Computer Aided Design (CAD) preferred.
•Knowledge of gondola fixtures.
•Refined interpersonal skills to engage with others both written and verbally.
•Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic business environment.
•Demonstrated organizational skills and attention to detail.
•Ability to work independently, be highly self-motivated.
•Analytical thinker, team player, customer-focused, business minded.
•Strong working knowledge of Excel (charts, VLookUps, data manipulation and macro execution).
•Thorough understanding of MS Word and strong skills in PowerPoint to support category presentations.
•Experience with JDA and ProSpace a plus.
•Travel as required.
•Standing, walking, lifting (up to 25lbs) and climbing.
Compensation Details $55000 / year
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