Senior Manager Retail Space Planning and Analytics

Manager, Retail Space Planning & Analytics is responsible for developing and leading PCC’s retail space strategy, translating merchandising objectives into optimized placement, assortment, and space allocation decisions that maximize customer experience, sales, margin, and productivity. Discounted ORCA bus pass, staff discount on in-store purchases, free PCC co-op membership, Flexible Spending Account with pre-tax savings on eligible health and child care expenses.

Overview:

PCC’s Sr. Manager, Retail Space Planning & Analytics is responsible for developing and leading PCC’s retail space strategy, translating merchandising objectives into optimized placement, assortment, and space allocation decisions that maximize customer experience, sales, margin, and productivity. The role oversees planogram development, space planning analytics, and shelf productivity initiatives to ensure merchandising strategies are effectively executed in stores. As a collaborative partner to the organization, the Sr. Manager provides data-driven insights and recommendations that influence assortment decisions, space productivity, and overall merchandising performance. They work closely with Merchandising, Operations, Finance, Store Development, and senior leadership to establish, measure, manage, and continuously improve PCC’s retail space planning capabilities.

Job Locations: US-WA-Seattle Address: 1320 4th Ave Our Culture:

If you’re a people person, you’re a PCC person. Maybe it’s our co-op roots, or maybe it’s our Northwest nature, but we embrace stewardship and take action because we care. As one of the most trusted grocers in Seattle, we foster high standards and look to our staff members to build trust by acting with integrity — toward our members and shoppers, and toward each other.

PCC is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We value all the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our staff members invest in their work, stores and communities. Valuing diversity is a significant part of our culture, our values and PCC’s success.

PCC provides equal employment opportunities to all staff members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Main Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the category reset process, seasonal transitions, and new item launches including creation of calendar
• Provide leadership and direction to 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 planograms processes aligned to category strategy and assortment decisions
• Lead analytics that evaluate 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 merchandising team
• Partner closely with cross functional teams including store operations, finance, and store development
• Observe and determine process improvements to share with leadership

Qualifications and Skills:

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Supply Chain, Business or a related field
• 5-10 years in retail, CPG, space planning, or merchandising analytics
• Hands-on experience with space planning software
• • Category or store-level data
• 3-5 years’ experience in people and team leadership  
• Proven experience developing strategies, establishing KPIs and systems, and storytelling with data

 

Skills

• Exceptionally strong analytical skills (Excel, BI tools)
• Experience with space planning software (e.g., Blue Yonder/JDA, Spaceman)
• Ability to connect data to merchandising decisions
• Strong attention to detail + execution discipline

 

Soft Skills

• Ability to influence without authority
• Clear communicator of insights (not just data)
• Comfortable operating between corporate strategy and store reality
• Ability to thrive in a matrixed organization while maintaining an optimistic, solution-oriented, and customer-centric mindset
• Self-starter who enjoys independent work and ownership over their programs
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills remotely and in person
• Comfortable with a hybrid work schedule between in-office, in-stores, and work from home
• Willing to learn and work in platforms like Retalix HQ, Wrike, and others
• Ability to make decisions based on imperfect information
• Develop rapport with staff at all levels of the co-op

Benefits and Perks:

• Keep yourself and your family healthy. Medical, dental, and vision plan
• Care for yourself and loved ones. Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program.
• Take time off. Paid time off starting at 0.08 hours per hour worked, plus 6 paid holidays per year, and bereavement leave.
• Save for your future. 401(k) profit sharing contribution
• Save on expenses. Discounted ORCA bus pass, staff discount on in-store purchases, free PCC co-op membership, Flexible Spending Account with pre-tax savings on eligible health and child care expenses.
• Learn more at https://www.pccmarkets.com/about/jobs/benefits/

Additional Details:

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties, responsibilities, and requirements, but constitutes a general definition of the position’s scope and function within our company. PCC Community Markets reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet the changing industry or business needs as necessary.

Comp Details: Starting Wage Range: $110,000 - $130,000/year, depending on experience. Bonus eligible.