Sr Floor Planning Specialist

Michaels Stores•Irving, TX

About The Position

The Sr Floor Planning Specialist supervises macro space planning at the store-specific level. The role creates and maintains floor plans for new stores, remodels, resets, demographic variations, unique store prototypes, adjacencies, test formats, and macro space performance. Using JDA Floor Planning, AutoCAD, Space Automation, CKB Web Publisher, and the CKB database, the specialist determines product placement based on each store’s building attributes and uses analytics to optimize sales performance across assigned Michaels stores. The position supports Store Operations, Fixture Procurement, Store Development, Merchandising, Inventory, Marketing, and LP. It manages floor-plan quality control, validates space-management data and planogram assignments, coordinates special store projects and category resets, and collaborates with cross-functional partners to meet project timelines and strategic goals. The specialist also supervises sales and gross-margin analysis of published planograms, supports systems that use floor-plan information, develops weekly action plans for direct reports, and participates in team meetings and onboarding.

Requirements

Associate degree in Business or a related field.
At least 2 years of experience with JDA Floor Planning and Category Management software.
Proficiency in AutoCAD.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word.
3–5 years of professional experience in a related field.
Understanding of architecture and construction industry practices and retail merchandising.
Team management, planning and organization, communication, and relationship-building skills.
Strong sense of urgency in anticipating customer needs.
Strong logical reasoning and business intelligence.
Ability to maintain collaborative partnerships with Merchant, Inventory, and Store Operations teams.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of JDA Space Planning.
JDA certifications.
Bachelor’s degree in Merchandising, Visual Merchandising, Business, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Design store-specific floor plans in JDA Floor Planning and AutoCAD in alignment with merchandising and brand standards and applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
Maintain prototype plans and create floor plans for new and remodeled stores.
Manage quality-control measures for merchandise floor plans, ensuring accurate store assignments and alignment with strategic vision and corporate standards.
Communicate proactively with Merchandising and store teams about project analysis, presentations, and store documents.
Validate space-management data provided to cross-functional partners, including detailed reviews of category planogram assignments.
Engage merchants and the space-planning team with pre-planning deliverables, including store-planogram assignments, recommended brand-flow adjacencies, and space analytics.
Manage special store projects, new store concepts, expansions, and category resets.
Collaborate with Space Planning Analysts to deliver projects on time and in line with space optimization and category strategy plans.
Supervise sales and gross-margin analysis of published planograms and recommend adjustments to appropriate partners.
Oversee and assist IT partnerships supporting systems that use floor plans for warehouse receiving, ad-sign placement, customer mobile apps, and other business processes.
Develop weekly action plans for direct reports and participate in weekly cross-functional and cross-divisional meetings.
Participate in onboarding and training new team members.
Present information effectively and respond to questions in meetings with team members, management, vendors, and service providers.
Partner with leadership to improve best practices, processes, and tools.
Perform other duties as assigned.