Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify space and product management requirements.
- Consult with relevant personnel to identify organisational space and product management requirements.
- Access and review organisational standards and guidelines for space and product management.
- Research trends in retail space and product management to inform planning.
- Identify and assess factors impacting space and product management planning.
- Develop space management plan.
- Access and review store design plans and dimensional data to determine store features and constraints.
- Plan optimal store layout and fixture space.
- Identify opportunities to optimise use of space and create efficiencies in customer traffic flow.
- Identify opportunities to enhance customer experience and commercial profitability through space management.
- Identify potential commercial and customer experience challenges and undertake planning to minimise impact.
- Document an accurate, to-scale, space management plan using digital design software.
- Ensure space management plan complies with regulatory and work, health and safety requirements.
- Develop a store product management plan.
- Confirm product performance targets, inventory levels, customer profiles and marketing strategies to inform product management plan.
- Calculate inventory volumes and capacity of fixtures required to support the display of the merchandise.
- Consider product category adjacencies and grouping according to features, price, size and type.
- Identify constraints and opportunities impacting management planning.
- Communicate the space and product management plan.
- Develop action plans for the implementation of space and product management plans, including any required dismantling of existing layout.
- Present space and product management plan to relevant personnel and make any required adjustments.
- Gain approval for space and product management plans.
- Communicate implementation plans to relevant personnel and ensure consistent understanding of requirements.