Space and Range Analyst - motn

This role presents a unique and exciting opportunity to support the improvement of our space optimisation and range analysis within the business. With a focus on improving range efficiency, increasing sales performance and getting it right for stores, the role requires an individual who is comfortable working with large volumes of data and capable of producing analysis that leads to recommendations.

You will work in a high‑energy, cross‑functional environment with buying, supply, merchandising and space planning teams and will provide key support to wider functions by translating data and insight into actionable recommendations.

• Analyse large data sets to create a range of recommendations
• Identify product distribution opportunities and model commercial benefits associated
• Support the development of ranging models to maximise new or emerging formats
• Determine the effect of demographics on customer purchasing and propose changes to ranging to reflect this
• Carry out analysis of space and development related projects to provide insight and suggestions on possible improvements
• Contribute to clustering work by providing supporting analysis
• Create tools and databases to analyse space utilisation and identify ranging opportunities
• Develop reporting that can be used by the merchandising team to drive increased profitability into planogram builds
• Analyse the impact of space and layout initiatives and provide insight into the change and possible improvements
• Build dashboards to support ongoing space and range efficiency management
• Build strong relationships with a variety of cross‑functional teams, understand the origin of data sets, and support future evolvement and manipulation
• Understand who key stakeholders will be and ensure regular connection
• Support upskilling wider teams on analysis outputs and how they can interpret them
• Analyse complicated data sets to deliver recommendations
• Build tools and dashboards to help interpret data
• Communicate effectively (written and verbal)
• Present outcomes to wider stakeholders comfortably
• Demonstrate excellent Excel and Microsoft Office skills
• Show competence in using SQL and Microsoft Access
• Desirable but not essential: understanding of space and range level analysis
• Previous experience within an FMCG or retail background would help
• Experience of working with Space Planning software would be advantageous
• High level of competence with spreadsheet and database software packages and relational database design
• Knowledge of Power BI and Python would be advantageous