We are seeking an Assortment and Space Solutions Consultant to be part of our software implementation team. The ideal candidate brings hands-on retail experience and excels at capturing business requirements, translating them into practical solutions, and partnering with our Product Team, as well as stakeholders across clients’ Merchandising, Space Planning, Store Operations, and IT.
This role is solution-oriented: you will proactively propose options and trade-offs, not just raise issues, and you will guide teams from discovery through adoption.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Discovery and Requirements
- Lead workshops and interviews with Category Managers, Space Planners, Store Ops, and Supply Chain to elicit and clarify business needs.
- Document current-state and design future-state processes for assortment planning, macro/micro space planning, planogram execution, and compliance.
- Translate requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications.
- Solution Design
- Understand and validate business rules for assortment (e.g., category roles/tactics, clustering, min/max facings, substitutions) and space (fixtures, capacities, dimensions).
- Propose solution options and trade-offs aligned to constraints (data quality, timelines, store readiness) and drive decisions.
- Delivery and Testing
- Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineers to ensure requirements are understood and feasible.
- Create test cases and lead UAT, with a focus on root cause and pragmatic remediation.
- Capture feedback and iterate configurations and processes.
- Change Management and Adoption
- Facilitate change impact assessments.
- Lead demos with confidence to excite stakeholders driving engagement during implementation projects.
- Execute end-to-end Category Reviews for pilots as needed (from store clustering to assortment planning to planogram publishing).
- Client Success
- Act as the primary functional point of contact for the Assortment & Space platform, engaging stakeholders as needed.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- 3+ years of experience in roles such as Category Management, Merchandising, Space Planning, or MerchTech consulting.
- Hands-on experience with at least one Assortment and/or Space Planning platform (examples: SymphonyAI Assortment and Space, NielsenIQ Spaceman, Blue Yonder Category Management/Planogram Generator, RELEX, or similar).
- Strong process mapping and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated solution orientation: ability to prioritize value and propose practical options and trade-offs.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills; comfortable leading cross-functional workshops and presenting to senior stakeholders.
- Solid understanding of category roles/tactics, store clustering, planogram principles (fixtures, capacities, facings, adjacencies), product attributes/dimensions, and operational execution in stores.
- Strong analytical skills.