What are the responsibilities and job description for the Retail Floor Planner position at Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores?
BASIC PURPOSE
Works closely with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain floorplans. The Retail Floor Planner will ensure all macro space planning assortment decisions are consistent with category strategies at a facility-specific level. This includes creating floor plans for all new facilities / remodels, resets, all aspects of unique facility prototypes, facility test formats, and macro space performance. This role will analyze floorplans for sales, profitability, and adjacencies to make recommendations to optimize the floorplans bearing in mind trade-offs for customer experience, facility labor efficiencies, merchandise strategy and visual considerations. This position is responsible for ensuring floorplans meet high quality standards, are localized to each facility, and able to be executed without issues to the field. This role will present, discuss alternatives, and make final floorplan recommendations to the Space Planning and Merchandising teams.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Design facility specific floorplans that can be executed in the field.
- Assist in analyzing floor productivity within each floorplan to make data driven decisions on macro assortment to improve sales and productivity.
- Understanding of Love’s software systems and processes to be able to diagnose issues and train both internal and field team members.
- Convert AutoCAD Files to the proper format for the floor planning software to ingest.
- Builds and maintains collaborative partnerships with internal and external teams across the Love’s organization.
- Other duties assigned as needed.
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Job Function(s) : Corporate
Love’s has been fueling customers’ journeys since 1964. Innovation and perseverance continue to lead the way for the family-owned and -operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City with more than 40,000 team members in North America and Europe. The company’s core business is travel stops and convenience stores with more than 630 locations in 42 states. Love’s continues its commitment to offer products and services that provide value for professional drivers, fleets, four-wheel customers, RVers, alternative fuel and wholesale fuel customers. Giving back to communities Love’s serves and maintaining an inclusive and diverse workplace are hallmarks of the company’s award-winning culture.
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