Robert Jensen

1. Create and Maintain Merchandising Store POG Set Plans

• New Store Builds (NTI): Start from scratch, considering the fixture layout and specific requirements of the store, including available space, local customer preferences, and overall category sales mix.
• Remodeled Stores: Identify areas that are included in the remodel or changed based on new layout design, sales data, and updated merchandising trends.

2. Collaboration with Key Stakeholders

• District Manager: Understand local store performance and customer preferences. Ensure the store set plan aligns with their insights.
• Regional Director: Coordinate high-level strategies to ensure all stores in the region are aligned with broader company goals.
• Merchandising Team: Work closely to ensure product categories are properly represented, and ensure their guidance on category sales mix is taken into account.

3. Category Sales Mix by Store

• Analyze sales data to identify which categories are performing well and which need adjustments in space allocation. This helps prioritize product sets that should increase or decrease in size.

4. Finalizing the Merchandising Plan

• Planogram Placement: Once you have finalized the product mix and store layout, ensure the store set aligns with both customer preferences and operational efficiency.
• Visual Merchandising: Ensure the store layout and displays are highlighting key categories according to customer traffic patterns throughout the store.

5. Coordinating with Facilities for Store Equipment

• Once the set plan is complete, work with the Facilities Team to provide data necessary for gondolas, shelving, and other equipment needed for the store’s design.

Representation for NT Space Planning for planning & implementation of the Relex Software System to help manage inventory, and provide forecasting for suggested ordering for our CK stores. Space and Floor Planning are also supported to help provide increased organization and standardization for store layouts as well as optimal shelf arrangements to maximize sales and margin.

Maintain, plan and implement price recommendations using the Revionics Price Optimization System working with our Category Management Team. Goal is to provide guidance on pricing strategies to help enhance revenue and margin while remaining competitive for all categories.

Additional responsibilities include continued support for our space planning efforts for our NTBU Merchandising Team. Planogram creation as well as maintenance to help ensure that we carry an optimal product assortment in each of our stores.

Managed a Team of 5 Price Book Analysts through many large projects including migration to PDI as well as the Scalability migration to PDI-Tempe. Full item and pricing/promotional maintenance was included in our area of responsibility working directly with our NT Merchandising Team.

Also managed our Space Planning efforts that included development of On-line Planogram display using Spaceman software which is a product from AC Nielsen. Later efforts included assistance with the addition/implementation of POG SQL DB, additional modules my.spaceman to support POG Store ties and a publishing module to provide custom POG lists for each of our stores.

Creation of our first Price Book files using Core-Tech back-office system and Radiant POS. This implementation/rollout provided scanning for all of our products to 500 stores in 12 Midwestern states. Full creation/maintenance for all items/categories as well as pricing and promotions at our registers working directly with our Holiday Stationstores Merchandising team.