Space Planning Analyst - 12 Month Parental Leave Cover
About the role I support the Trade Planning Team to identify and deliver growth opportunities in seasonal events and promotions space, by producing clear and insightful reporting. What is 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 10% of base salary.
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) 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.
- Build robust event cascades that account for space constraints, phasing requirements, and country-specific dynamics.
- Interface with the store space database to ensure store lists are accurate and fully aligned to available event space.
- Design and deliver timely, insightful analysis for strategic projects, including space data, sales, density, and volume performance.
- Develop clear, decision-led reporting for space modelling, optimisation, and allocation to support Event Manager decision-making.
- Issue accurate and timely data to SRM and Supply Chain partners, ensuring space plans and store lists correctly reflect event execution.
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex data issues to ensure robust and reliable analysis.
- Support the end-to-end process from planning and forecasting through to post-event performance review and insight.
- Proactively identify opportunities to standardise, simplify, and automate processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Work closely with Event Managers, Space, Range and Merchandising, Store Ordering, and Property teams to ensure plans and space are fully aligned and executed effectively.
- Standing over the loading, extraction and transformation of large datasets from the data warehouse.
- Conduct ad hoc research and analysis to diagnose recent performance trends and operational issues.
- Degree in a quantitative or retail subject.
- Prior work experience in retail, analytics or merchandising.
- Experience working in an analytical role is desirable, but not essential.
- Familiarity with some data manipulation, analytical and/or statistical tools (MS Excel, SQL, Python, R, VBA etc.) would be an asset.
- Understanding of cascading and range mix management.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills, with a natural ability to communicate insight.
- Experience using Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel.
- Strong attention to detail and a passion for learning.
- Good written and spoken communication skills.
- Ability to manage own workload to tight deadlines and to work on a variety of projects simultaneously.