Assistant Range Planner (12 Month FTC)

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment. 

The teams at our Redditch Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly. 

If you’re willing to get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far. 

We’re looking for an Assistant Range Planner to join our Range Planning team- an exciting, hands on role at the heart of how our products come to life in stores. In this collaborative position, you’ll work closely with Buying, Marketing, Supply, Store Development and Retail Operations to shape the ideal range and promotional structure. You’ll help define the right balance of Good, Better, Best products and promotional offers, translating these into clear visual plans that show how products should be positioned on shelves and displays to maximise sales and elevate the customer experience.  

You’ll also play a key role in delivering our range change and promotional programmes, ensuring new ranges are communicated accurately, aligned to store performance, and launched on time to a “Right First Time” standard. This role supports our full retail estate of 370 stores, giving you the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across Halfords.  

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  Creating planograms in Spaceman using the core principles agreed with the Range Planner, including SKU lists, stock policies and merchandising criteria 

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  Collaborating with the Point of Sale “POS” team to ensure all planograms include the correct pointofsale materials 

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  Builds and sets up planograms in the Test Bed for review with key stakeholders 

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  Maintains accurate and consistent data within Spaceman to ensure planogram integrity 

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  Works with the Macro Space team to schedule and agree planogram uploads in line with golive dates 

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  Responds to store queries relating to planograms, resolving issues or escalating when needed 

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  Supports the ongoing management of the Test Bed by ensuring:  

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  Stock can be booked in and out by all relevant teams 

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  Usage rotas are maintained and training sessions or signoffs are scheduled appropriately 

• Strong commercial awareness  

• Retail experience is desirable, though not essential 

• Highly diligent with excellent attention to detail 

• Genuine passion for visual merchandising and creating impactful displays 

• Experience using Spaceman or other spaceplanning software is desirable but not essential. 

• Experience with Microsoft packages e.g. Excel is desirable but not essential.