Space Strategy Analyst
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/14036628/938312 |
Summary
About the role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to craft the way we use our space at Tesco? Do you want to work cross-functionally to land key business initiatives? Are you proficient in analytical problem-solving, strong in communication, and skilled in planning? If so, you’d be a great fit for this role in our team!
The opportunity has never been greater than our customers demand more flexibility in the way they shop!
The team resolve mix of space we give to product groups in our stores based on individual store performance, business strategy, customer demographic and market trends. We also own the principles for how we layout these product groups out in store
You will be responsible for
- Delivering Range Changes and space impacting projects
- Developing creative solutions, underpinned by robust data, to advise decisions and deliver tangible benefits in an ambitious market.
- Understanding how the retail industry works, across all channels and the impact this has on our space in store, alongside existing and emerging market trends.
- Focussing on how we can deliver the best offer for customers whilst improving our £/sq.ft. return
- Collaborating with category teams to help understand where space needs to play a role in delivering the commercial strategy.
- Working closely with the team in Tesco Business Services (TBS, India) to maintain high quality floor plans that meet our principles to ensure the best shopping trip for customers; delivered in a timely fashion.
- Influencing a competing and broad set of partners across Commercial, Customer and Supply Chain Delivering space recommendations for projects, range changes and property development work.
- Presenting clearly and able to flex your style, framing the complexity in simple engaging language to facilitate decision making.
- Crafting and maintaining Space tools for you and the wider team to help make data based decisions.
You will need
- Commercial competence.
- Numerically strong and have an analytical approach.
- Able to communicate sophisticated data led recommendations clearly with business focus.
- Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to turn abstract ideas into deliverable solutions.
- Energised by change, demonstrating a positive approach and ability to think on your feet.
- Project management experience– able to plan, coordinate, prioritise, think creatively, pay attention to the details and articulate impacts of change.
- Solid understanding of Excel and PowerPoint required, experience with SQL or Python would also be helpful.
- Experience within Supply Chain, Commercial or Space, Range & Merchandising/Stock Control with a track record of results is a bonus.
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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