Retail Space Planner | Store Layout Designer

Role overview

Planning and layout design

• Plan store layouts for new openings, renovations, relocations, seasonal campaigns, and existing-store improvements.
• Optimize product categories, shelving, display fixtures, checkout counters, promotional zones, and customer service areas.
• Prepare floor plans, zoning diagrams, furniture and fixture plans, technical drawings, and space-planning documentation.
• Review store dimensions, site surveys, architectural drawings, and building constraints before developing layouts.
• Set space-allocation guidelines for categories, brands, departments, and promotional displays.

Customer experience and operations

• Plan customer journeys and assess traffic flow, congestion, entrance visibility, checkout queues, and movement patterns.
• Apply visual merchandising principles to improve presentation, promotional visibility, and brand consistency.
• Coordinate with merchandising and operations on assortment, stock capacity, replenishment, inventory handling, employee movement, and workflows.
• Coordinate with architects, interior designers, contractors, and facilities teams on technical requirements and implementation.
• Visit sites, monitor layout implementation, and coordinate adjustments when site conditions or operational needs change.

Analysis and continuous improvement

• Analyze sales performance, space productivity, product visibility, conversion rates, and customer traffic; use findings to recommend layout improvements.
• Support planograms, seasonal floor sets, promotional displays, product launches, and campaign installations.
• Maintain layout, fixture, space-allocation, and revision records; develop standardized templates and planning guidelines.
• Coordinate timelines, implementation schedules, and resources, and recommend improvements to planning methods and workflows.
• Monitor retail design trends, fixture technologies, brand standards, and store-planning practices.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Interior Design, Architecture, Retail Design, Spatial Planning, Industrial Design, or a related discipline.
• Relevant professional experience in retail space planning, store layout design, visual merchandising, or commercial interior design.
• Experience supporting new store openings, retail renovations, or multi-location rollouts is preferred.

Required skills

• Strong understanding of floor planning, merchandise zoning, customer circulation, space utilization, merchandising principles, and retail operations.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD or comparable CAD tools; ability to interpret drawings, measurements, construction plans, and specifications.
• Experience preparing floor plans, fixture layouts, planograms, and retail presentation materials.
• Ability to analyze retail data and KPIs, including sales density, space productivity, conversion rates, and customer traffic.
• Understanding of accessibility, circulation clearance, fire safety, and relevant building requirements.
• Strong visual awareness, problem-solving, attention to detail, communication, presentation, collaboration, and project coordination skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with SketchUp, Revit, or other 3D visualization tools is advantageous.

What the employer offers

• Competitive salary and employee benefits; no compensation amount or cadence is specified.
• Opportunities to work on diverse store formats, new openings, renovations, and multi-location retail projects.
• Professional development, design software and planning tools, collaboration with retail professionals, and potential career advancement in retail planning and design.