Full-Time
Senior Manager Retail Space Planning and Analytics
Posted on 8/18/2026
PCC Community Markets
501-1,000 employees
Community-owned organic grocery cooperative
Compensation Overview
$110k - $130k/yr
Seattle, WA, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid schedule between the office, stores, and working from home.
Bachelor's
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- A Bachelor's degree in Economics, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field is required.
- Five to ten years of experience in retail, consumer packaged goods, space planning, or merchandising analytics is required.
- Hands-on experience with space planning software is required.
- Experience with category or store-level data is required.
- Three to five years of experience in people and team leadership is required.
- Proven experience developing strategies, establishing key performance indicators and systems, and storytelling with data is required.
- Strong analytical skills, including proficiency with Excel and business intelligence tools, are required.
- Experience with space planning software such as Blue Yonder/JDA or Spaceman is required.
- The candidate must be able to connect data to merchandising decisions.
- Strong attention to detail and execution discipline are required.
- The candidate must be able to influence without authority.
- The candidate must clearly communicate insights, not just data.
- The candidate must be comfortable operating between corporate strategy and store realities.
- The candidate must be able to work in a matrixed organization while maintaining a customer-centric, solution-oriented approach.
- The candidate must be self-starting and able to work independently with ownership over programs.
- Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills are required.
- The candidate must be comfortable with a hybrid schedule between in-office, in-store, and work-from-home settings.
- The candidate must be willing to learn and work in platforms such as Retalix HQ and Wrike.
- The candidate must be able to make decisions based on imperfect information.
- The candidate must be able to develop rapport with staff at all levels of the co-op.
- Lead the category reset process, seasonal transitions, and new item launches, including calendar creation.
- Provide leadership and direction to the space planning team.
- Develop insights and recommendations that influence category strategy, assortment decisions, capital investments, and store merchandising priorities.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators for space productivity, assortment efficiency, and merchandising execution.
- Advise merchandising leadership on space allocation strategies that support category growth and profitability objectives.
- Lead planogram processes aligned with category strategy and assortment decisions.
- Lead analytics evaluating the effectiveness of assortment, placement, and merchandising initiatives.
- Partner with Store Development and Merchandising to support new store openings, remodels, and refreshes.
- Build organizational capabilities, tools, and processes that improve space planning effectiveness across the co-op.
- Translate data into clear, actionable insights for the merchandising team.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including Store Operations, Finance, and Store Development.
- Observe and determine process improvements to share with leadership.
PCC Community Markets is a community-owned organic grocery retailer with 16 stores in the Puget Sound area. It offers organic and locally sourced foods through a member-owned cooperative model where shoppers can become members and participate in governance. It differs from many competitors by being owned by its members and focusing on community benefit, local sourcing, and organic certification rather than pure profit. Its goal is to nourish the communities it serves and cultivate thriving local organic food systems.
Company Size
501-1,000
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Seattle, Washington
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- 2025 net sales reached $487.8 million, up 8.4%, with positive net income.
- Madison Valley opens this fall, adding PCC's 17th Seattle-area location.
- Board search started August 2026, giving PCC months to manage a controlled CEO handoff.
What critics are saying
- Krish Srinivasan exits January 29, 2027, removing PCC's turnaround architect during expansion.
- PCC skipped member dividends again in 2026, risking member backlash and weaker loyalty.
- If Madison Valley or the Corner Market underperform, PCC's expansion thesis collapses.
What makes PCC Community Markets unique
- PCC is the largest U.S. food cooperative, with 125,000+ member-owners.
- PCC sources from 700+ local producers and markets organic, ethical Pacific Northwest foods.
- PCC built a turnaround under Krish Srinivasan, restoring profitability by 2025.
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PCC Community Markets CEO to retire in January; search for replacement underway. * john stearns * aug 21, 2026. PCC Community Markets on Wednesday announced that President and CEO Krishnan "Krish" Srinivasan plans to retire effective Jan. 29, 2027, after guiding the Seattle-based food cooperative through significant financial and operational challenges to a healthy position today. Srinivasan, who joined PCC as chief financial officer in mid-2018 before becoming CEO in January 2022, will continue leading PCC while its board of trustees conducts a national search for his successor. He will work closely with the board during the search now underway and with the incoming leader during onboarding to ensure a seamless handoff, while advancing key strategic initiatives, including the opening of PCC's 17th store in Seattle's Madison Valley, PCC said in a news release. That store is targeted for a fall opening. PCC's 16 existing locations include Bellevue, Bothell, Edmonds, Issaquah, Kirkland, and Redmond. "This decision comes after a lot of personal reflection and thought," Srinivasan said in the release. "For more than eight years, PCC has been where my passion and my sense of purpose found equal voice. It has been a uniquely special experience to do what I enjoy with an extraordinary team of people in service of a mission that truly moves us all." Srinivasan said he has long known this would be his last full-time role. "I am making this decision now because our co-op is very well positioned for its next chapter, and I am personally ready to pass the reins on - and to spend more time with family and loved ones in my own life's next chapter," he added. Srinivasan became CEO during one of the most difficult periods in the co-op's history. Retail and food industries nationwide were navigating the lasting effects of the pandemic, from rising costs to supply-chain disruptions, and PCC faced big challenges. Under his leadership, PCC's membership more than doubled since he joined the leadership team as CFO; two rounds of collective bargaining resulted in industry-leading benefits and compensation packages for unionized staff members; and the co-op returned to a path of long-term economic stability, positioning PCC for continued success, the release said. In 2025, PCC delivered strong financial results, generating $487.8 million in net sales - an 8.4% increase year over year, and almost $2.4 million in net income, according to the 2025 Co-op Purpose Report. When Srinivasan took over in January 2022, PCC was coming off a year when it reported $398 million in net sales and net income of $181,602 after significant expenses. At the time, Srinivasan called 2021 among the most challenging periods in the co-op's history. PCC, founded in 1953, is now in its 73rd year. It has more than 125,000 members, up from roughly 60,000 in 2017, before Srinivasan's arrival. "Krish has been exactly the CEO that PCC Community Markets needed," PCC board Chair Joe Rogoff said in a statement. "He brought strong financial acumen, inspired confidence, and crafted a strategic vision. He stabilized our financial foundation, re-engaged members, and made the difficult decisions necessary for the future of the co-op. His authenticity and transparency engaged all of our stakeholders, and while we wish him well in retirement, we are very sorry to see him go." Before joining PCC, Srinivasan held leadership positions at Microsoft, Amazon, Lyft, and Remitly.
PCC Community Markets CEO to step down after leading turnaround. Aug. 19, 2026 at 6:20 pm Seattle Times business reporter Krishnan Srinivasan, the former tech exec who helped steer PCC Community Markets out of financial turmoil, will step down as CEO early next year, the Seattle-based grocery co-op said Wednesday. "This decision comes after a lot of personal reflection and thought," said Srinivasan, 58, in a statement Wednesday. "I am making this decision now because our co-op is very well positioned for its next chapter, and I am personally ready to pass the reins on." The co-op, which operates 16 locations in and around Seattle, said Srinivasan will work through Jan. 29. Hired in 2018 as PCC's chief financial officer, Srinivasan brought years of experience in corporate operations from stints with Remitly, Lyft, Amazon and Microsoft, and has also been a PCC member since the 1990s. Srinivasan took over an organization that was losing money as it struggled with inflation, changing consumer habits, and heavy operating costs from a decadelong expansion that arguably resulted in too many new stores. That included a massive downtown location that opened in 2022 to a half-empty downtown. Advertising Under Srinivasan, PCC began a long, slow turnaround. It negotiated a two-year contract with its 1,500 unionized staff, avoiding a costly strike. It trimmed expenses. The money-losing downtown store was closed in 2024 and replaced with a smaller-format store in 2025. It canceled its cooking classes, moved its headquarters from an office overlooking Elliott Bay to space next to its pared-down downtown store and hasn't paid a member dividend for several years. "There are some hard choices we have had to make on this ongoing journey," Srinivasan said in a letter to members that accompanied PCC's annual report in July. The turnaround has shown some success. Between 2021 and 2025, sales grew around 22%, to $488 million, while membership rose 21%, to around 123,000. Sales at the new downtown store in 2025 beat initial projections by 21%, the co-op said, and a 17th location, in Madison Valley, opens this fall. In 2025, the co-op reported income of $2.8 million, almost six times what it posted in 2024. Advertising Srinivasan was "exactly the CEO that PCC Community Markets needed," Joe Rogoff, PCC board chair, said in Wednesday's statement. "He stabilized our financial foundation, re-engaged members, and made the difficult decisions necessary for the future of the co-op." Some employees felt Srinivasan's base salary, which was $530,400 in 2025, is too high for a member-owned co-op. PCC has defended that salary, saying it is lower than what was paid to his most recent predecessors and less than what CEOs at comparable companies make. In its statement Wednesday, PCC emphasized that Srinivasan's stepping down was "part of a thoughtfully planned leadership transition," and noted that he would help in the search for his replacement. "We hope PCC's board chooses a CEO who will continue to bargain industry-leading contracts that allow workers to deliver the level of service co-op members deserve and have come to expect," said Rich Smith, spokesperson for United Food & Commercial Workers International Union 3000, which represents around 1,500 hourly workers at PCC. No word yet on Srinivasan's post-PCC plans. He said Wednesday that the co-op "would be my last full-time role" and that he was ready "to spend more time with family and loved ones in my own life's next chapter." Paul Roberts: [email protected]. Paul Roberts covers business and economics for The Seattle Times. See more Seattle Times content on Google
PCC Community Markets to open new Seattle store despite financial issues. July 31, 2026 at 4:06 pm Seattle Times business reporter Seattle-based PCC Community Markets reported an increase in profits and members last year, and is on track to open a new Seattle location this fall, the co-op said Friday. It's the latest sign of a slow but steady recovery by the 73-year-old grocery co-op after the disruptions of the pandemic and an overly ambitious growth strategy. But PCC also said it would again forgo a member dividend and make other cuts, including to its cooking classes, as it seeks a sustainable business model in an industry upended by inflation and intense online competition. "There are some hard choices we have had to make on this ongoing journey," PCC CEO Krish Srinivasan said in a letter to members that accompanied Friday's report. The co-op, which has 16 locations in and around Seattle, reported income of $2.8 million. That's a major improvement from 2024, when it reported less than half a million dollars in profits, and from two years before, when the co-op posted its first losses since the 1990s. Sales in 2025 fell 8%, to $488 million, over 2024, while membership jumped 4%, to nearly 123,000. A new store, in Seattle's Madison Valley, is scheduled to open this fall. Advertising Despite the recovery in profit, PCC's board of trustees decided to forgo its annual member dividend - a program launched in 2020 - and invest that money in staff wages and benefits, Srinivasan said. Srinivasan said PCC's "limited resources required us to choose between investing in staff wages and benefits or issuing a patronage dividend to members (and), we made the deliberate decision to prioritize our staff." The co-op has also axed its culinary education program, which was founded in 1983 and offered kids camps, date night cooking classes and more. The program faced rising costs and falling enrollment. "As a result, it does not break even, and at the current scale of attendance, is not likely to ever do so," Srinivasan said. Advertising The co-op also struggled through a contract dispute in 2023 with its unionized staff before agreeing to a new two-year contract in early 2024 with the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, which represents around 1,500 hourly workers. A new contract was ratified in June, according to PCC. Srinivasan's statement drew a sharp response from UFCW 3000, especially around the decision to fund wages rather than a dividend. "PCC's decision to pit workers against co-op members in its financial report takes a page out of the same corporate playbook that got them into this financial mess in the first place," said UFCW 3000 Secretary-Treasurer Sean Embly in a statement Friday. The union argues that PCC's finances continue to be hurt by mistakes of previous co-op executives and a network of new stores that "expanded too quickly in too small of a market," Embly said. Paul Roberts: [email protected]. Paul Roberts covers business and economics for The Seattle Times.
PCC Community Markets to open new Seattle location after 10-year wait. Madison Valley store will finally make its debut this fall Similar to other locations, the new Madison Valley PCC store will offer locally grown organic produce. PCC Community Markets will open a new grocery co-op in Seattle's Madison Valley neighborhood this fall. Located at 2925 E. Madison Street, the store will be the retailer's 17th location in Washington state. "We signed this lease 10 years ago, and it's been a long road to get here as the project worked through the local process, with input from the neighborhood along the way. That makes it especially meaningful to finally open our doors and put down roots here," said Amy Chow, acting CEO of PCC Community Markets. "This neighborhood has such a strong sense of community, and we look forward to being a part of people's everyday routines." The new community-owned co-op store will offer locally grown organic produce, ethically raised meat and seafood, and a wide selection of seasonal products sourced from across the Pacific Northwest. It will also feature everyday value through PCC branded products, Field Day products and a bulk section curated to provide staples at accessible prices. For time-saving options, the store's deli will include freshly prepared meals, seasonal salads, artisanal sandwiches, hot soups, and grab-and-go options crafted daily. All offerings at the Madison Valley store will uphold PCC's quality standards spanning sustainable agriculture, fair labor, animal welfare and more. The store is expected to employ approximately 75 staff members. "I'm so excited to welcome PCC Community Markets' newest neighborhood store to Madison Valley," said Seattle City Council President Joy Hollingsworth. "As a multi-generational Seattleite, I'm proud to support a local, homegrown business that reflects the values of our community. As a farmer who runs a family-owned farm, I deeply appreciate PCC's commitment to supporting local agriculture. And as a city official, I recognize PCC not only as a valued employer and economic driver, but as a true community partner, leading on issues from hunger relief advocacy to environmental sustainability." Construction is currently underway, with the new store on track to open this fall. Additional details will be revealed in the coming months. Last year, PCC reported it made a "modest profit," with net sales rising 3.1% year over year to hit $449.9 million. Transactions and units were also up, by a 6% rate, while membership grew to 117,000 people. "Looking ahead into 2026, I feel optimism for what we can achieve together. The coming year is rich with opportunities to nurture our local organic food system, deepen our connections with the farmers and partners who sustain it, and celebrate our bountiful region," wrote CEO and President Krishnan Srinivasanin, who is currently on leave, in his latest quarterly update to PCC member-owners. He continued: "At the same time, we remain on a multi-year journey toward sustained triple bottom-line health, in an economic environment that still offers more questions than answers. This is a journey that will require focus, patience and collective effort, and will not always be easy - and we are committed to transparency in what we do and why." Founded in Seattle in 1953, the cooperative grocer operates 16 stores in the Pacific Northwest. PCC was named one of Progressive Grocer's Outstanding Independents for 2025.
Fall opening for PCC in Madison Valley. Photo via Studio Meng Strazzara [enlarge] Work is nearly finished at the Arbory, where PCC will open on the ground floor this fall. PCC Community Markets' newest store, in Madison Valley, will open this fall, the local food cooperative announced yesterday.