Lead Store Planner

Responsibilities

Job Summary: As a Lead Store Planner, you'll be responsible to combine our merchant’s vision with operational requirements across all H-E-B formats. You’ll provide leadership to tackle the most challenging planning issues confronting new stores, expansions, and remodels, mentoring less experienced partners, and presenting store plans to leadership teams for approvals. You will work closely with the Principal Planning Manager to maintain department templates, provide quality control reviews, and manage projects through to completion.   

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

• Expert individual contributor in a professional role. Performance has a long-term effect on the company's success.
• Leads the planning of large, complex, and unique New Stores, Expansions, and Remodels.
• Leads the quality control process for all planning project types, ensuring planning best practices are being implemented consistently across all project types and studios.
• Develops and manages new processes and tools to bring greater clarity to the delivery of project work across internal design, external consultants, and cross department (Shelf Edge, Design, Construction, Procurement, Technology) coordination.
• Leads the evaluation process for multiple planning scenarios, selects appropriate layout options based on the business need, and provides direction for all departments and HE-B formats
• Leads rapid iteration of new design concepts by leading project-level, cross-functional teams with limited definition and direction.
• Presents work and leads planning discussions during internal feedback meetings, merchant meetings, design forums, and facilitates feedback from multiple stakeholders on complex planning projects.
• Receives direction in the form of broad outcomes and is expected to define project objectives and own results. Recognized master who works on novel challenges, translating complex business and technical needs into objectives, plans, specifications, resources, short-term (1-3 years) strategic objectives, and long-term goals. Majority of time is spent developing and implementing new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans.
• Coaches, directs, oversees, and/or reviews the work of lower-level professionals.
• Strategic advisor to senior leadership, consulting on solutions and strategic implementation of new initiatives with far-reaching impacts. Creates formal networks across the organization.

The responsibilities and essential functions outlined above describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Duties and responsibilities may be modified at any time based on business needs. Employees may be required to perform other job-related tasks as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

Work Experience:

• 10+ years of relevant retail planning experience required

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Expert knowledge of all department template space planning to optimize all aspects of a planning assignment, including but not limited to, sales/ROI goals, drivers of efficient operations, ADA compliance, aisle spacing & customer areas, fixtures & equipment required to operate a department/store, special needs for partner operations & standard operating procedures, and management of department/store equipment.
• Expert knowledge of the planning process. Provides mentorship in conceptual planning, hand sketching, bubble diagrams, programming, tagging, bill of materials, store planning deliverables, Design Development hand -off documents, and bulletin/change management processes.
• Ability to manage innovation planning deliverables for all phases to completion with no supervision by others. Tracks project status, risks, and schedule changes through project management software. Surfaces workload risks and works with the Manager to prioritize projects and internal/external resources. Assists in the development of new management templates to be integrated into project management software.
• Power user of REVIT, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, and the MS Office suite of products.
• Advanced verbal / written / graphic / process / PowerPoint presentation communication skills

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in architecture or interior design

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:

• Function in a fast-paced, retail, office environment
• Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
• Sit for extended periods
• Work extended hours

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Last revised: 11/01/2017