28804 - Merchandise Space Planner

2 weeks ago


Mississauga, Canada Vaco Full time
Title – Merchandise Space Planner

Duration: 6 Months Contract, renewable

Work Environment: Hybrid, 3 days a week working in Mississauga office

Hours: Working hours per week

Job Description

The Space Excellence Centralized Services Planner is responsible for providing centralized services to: support core Space Planners in delivery of MRS-related planograms and category floor plans (when required); and for designing and delivering planograms and category floor plans for Merchandising and broader organizational Strategic initiatives; while continuing to evolve ways of working through optimized processes and documentation.

Major Responsibilities
  1. Responsible for creation and management of all Modular Relay Schedules, on behalf of core Space Planners, ensuring all milestones and related statuses, risks and mitigation plans are tracked and communicated to cross-functional stakeholders and work package owners, with follow-up and escalation where required.
  2. Attends key MRS-related meetings (pre-planning, kickoff, walkthrough) capturing relevant meeting notes.
  3. Provides quality control and administrative services to core Space Planners by conducting quality checks, ensuring document control, and completing system finalization of checked-in planograms and category floor plans. These includes any related communications and follow-up, standards validation, and management of change requests.
  4. Provides Level 1 store support and CA technical support for issues related to category floor plans and/or planograms. Tracks all intakes/support tickets ensuring timely follow-up and communication. Resolves simple issues when possible; triages complex issues to appropriate core Space Planner and/or cross-functional resources for research and root cause analysis when needed.
  5. Tracks defects and institutes corrective actions related to process, ways of working, and reporting as needed.
  6. Actively supports Merchandising and broader organizational Strategic initiatives requiring analysis and/or modifications to category and/or modular space, including intake and assessment of requests, scoping, preparation of hand-off documents, and liaising with Core Space Planner or 3rd party vendor support where necessary.
  7. Communicates and produces outputs that reflect strong business acumen and capacity to manage multiple priorities. Draws insights from data and translates into action, with an ability to negotiate and influence decisions.
  8. Maintains working knowledge of market, category, brand, and consumer trends in order to provide insights during planogram build process.
Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education Required: College Certificate or Diploma
Minimum Years of Experience Required: 1 - 2 years
JDA Certification (Considered an Asset)
JDA Floor Plan and Space Planning experience and expertise
Strong analytical & business acumen
Ability to effectively communicate, negotiate, and influence
Strong team player
Strong Project Management skills
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt accordingly

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

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