Space Planning Analyst

As a Space Planning Analyst, you'll partner with cross-functional teams to develop merchandising solutions that drive business results and enhance the customer experience. You will create and maintain planograms using Blue Yonder and Visual Merchandising Manager (VMM), support category transitions and product launches, and serve as the space planning expert for your assigned departments.

You'll collaborate with Merchandising, Inventory, Visual Merchandising, and Store Operations teams to ensure accurate, executable merchandising strategies while balancing customer experience, operational efficiency, and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and optimize planograms that support category strategies and enterprise merchandising standards.
• Lead execution of assortment changes, category transitions, and product launches.
• Manage project milestones and coordinate with partners to ensure successful store execution.
• Analyze space and merchandising opportunities and recommend improvements.
• Communicate planogram impacts, store counts, fixture requirements, and transition details.
• Serve as the primary contact for store-submitted planogram questions and issues.
• Maintain planogram data integrity and identify opportunities to improve processes and efficiencies.
• Build strong partnerships across Merchandising, Inventory, Visual Merchandising, and Store Operations teams.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in retail merchandising, space planning, category management, inventory planning, visual merchandising, or related fields.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Effective communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Blue Yonder Space Planning, VMM, or similar software.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of retail merchandising, inventory management, and store operations.

What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay
• Great employee discount
• Financial savings and retirement resources
• Support for your physical and mental well-being

Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life - in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.