As a Space Analyst, you’ll be responsible for delivering store format strategy and principles, providing your expertise to help identify and optimise retail floor plans across the estate. You’ll help support our capital investment program by maximising the return on space.

Using your analytical skills, and working alongside our Space Analyst Manager, you’ll interpret data and translate your findings to support business strategy and identify opportunities for improvement.

Using data, you’ll look for opportunities to drive store performance and efficiency through the continued development of effective retail floor plans. These are created using AutoCAD and Symphony AI Floor Planning.

You’ll continually be looking for ways to improve performance and regularly review and report on the data and your findings. You’ll present schemes to key stakeholders for sign off.

This role will see you collaborating across the business, including with our Development Project Delivery team, Retail Operations and Food Commercial.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to understand format and space systems and be comfortable working with external and customer data.

Bringing previous experience of presenting business cases for change, you’ll have strong communication skills and be confident in presenting.

You’ll be someone who can see the bigger picture and who can challenge, change and improve.

Due to the nature of the role, you’ll need to feel comfortable collaborating with colleagues across the business.

You’ll bring the ability to interpret and apply business information, as well as a keen eye for detail.

CAD experience is desirable, as is previous experience of SymphonyAI or similar retail Floor Planning systems. Previous food retail experience would be preferred but is not essential.

What is in it for me?

In addition to our competitive salaries, our colleagues also benefit from:

• Fantastic colleague discount- including a discount of up to 20% on our products.
• Retail discounts- our hub offers colleagues access to hundreds of exclusive retail discounts, savings on days out and holiday discounts.
• Holiday buy- colleagues can buy up to a week extra of annual leave each year
• Colleague recognition- we celebrate our colleague’s achievements both personally and professionally
• Enhanced family friendly policies- to help you feel fully supported during any significant life events.
• Colleague Dividend- We pay a share of our profits to eligible colleagues as a thank you for their contribution to our success.
• Paid time for volunteering- we encourage our colleagues to spend three days per year taking part in volunteering, fully paid for by us.
• Give as you earn- helping you support charities which mean something to you.
• Healthcare Cashplan- your wellbeing is important, so you’ve got the opportunity to contribute into a voluntary plan that helps pay towards a range of healthcare expenses.
• Company Pension- you can access a company pension scheme with us as well as access to Pension wellbeing information.
• Life Assurance- after an initial qualifying period, you’ll get free life assurance cover, that pays your nominated beneficiary if you die while you’re working for us.
• Personalised learning and development- with easy access to a wide range of training programmes
• We’ve got you – our new colleague wellbeing campaign, making wellbeing benefits and resources accessible and relevant to the role that you do.
• iTrent Financial Wellbeing (Wagestream)- offers something for all our colleagues, whether you want to track your finances, save some money, or access up to 50% of your earned pay flexibly in a way that suits you.
• Workflex- all of our flexible working options in one place, including our 4 day working week / 9 day fortnight and hybrid working options.

To find out more about all of these plus many more reasons to join us at Central Co-op, please visit Rewards and benefits - Central Coop (careers.coop)

Everyone is welcome here We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments so that all our candidates can show us how they’ll perform their role. There is a section in the application form where you can provide any additional information. Please use this section to include any reasonable adjustments you need, and we’ll do our best to support you through our recruitment process

We’re Central Co-op, a Member-owned and Member-led co-operative Society.

And with us, you’re not just a colleague, you’re a Member. You’ll own a share of the business.

You’ll be able to make a positive impact in your community, joining us in our mission to create a sustainable Society, and working alongside a team of passionate people who’ll help you grow. To find out more about working for us, visit our website www.careers.coop