About Officeworks:

Officeworks’ purpose is “we bring big ideas to life at low prices”. It’s how we create shared value for customers, team members, suppliers, communities and shareholders.

We are Australia’s leading omnichannel retailer of complete technology solutions, stationery, furniture, art supplies, and learning resources. We also offer services including Print & Create, and Geeks2U.

Our products and services provide solutions to our diverse range of customers across Australia from households, students, small to large sized businesses, governments and schools.

Our culture is built on beginning with customer, doing the right thing, executing with accountability, and leading with ambition. We are one team who are proud to “wear the blues” and deliver for our customers.

We are an inclusive, forward-thinking organization where diverse perspectives enable innovation, continuous improvement and better outcomes for our customers and teams. The work we do plays an important role in helping Australians work, learn, create and connect.

Individual Contributor:

- Lives our Officeworks values and behaviours
- Proactively contributes to a safe working environment, escalates appropriately if there are unsafe conditions or inappropriate behaviour
- Operates in line with applicable Officeworks company policies and Code of Conduct
- Demonstrates a strong sense of personal accountability and curiosity to learn and develop
- Contributes to an inclusive and respectful environment where diverse perspectives are valued and everyone feels safe to speak up and belong

Our Values:

Our values shape the way we work, our behaviours and how we interact with each other, our customers, suppliers and communities.

We begin with customer:

- We start with our customer’ needs in every decision.
- We offer simple, helpful and affordable solutions.
- We listen, learn and continuously improve.

We do the right thing:

- We lead with integrity and care for our team communities and planet.
- We work together safely and treat everyone with respect, inclusion, and trust.
- We collaborate across teams and think Officeworks-wide.

We execute with accountability:

- We are accountable for our decisions, actions, results, and mistakes.
- We stay across the details and focus on delivering what matters.
- We move with pace and agility to deliver outcomes.

We lead with ambition:

- We set bold ambitions that help us to win and transform.
- We are courageous with new ideas.
- We focus on transformation, not incremental steps.

The Commercial team sits at the heart of Officeworks’ growth agenda. This function brings together customer needs, product innovation, services, supplier partnerships, merchandise planning, and channel growth to shape what Officeworks sells, how it competes, and the value it delivers across Retail, B2B, Government, and Education. This is a unique prospect to contribute to one of the business’s most commercially impactful areas.

The team plays a key role in evolving Officeworks’ product and service offering, accelerating growth in high-potential channels (such as B2B and Education), expanding private label and exclusive ranges, strengthening supplier partnerships, and unlocking emerging category opportunities across areas like technology, gaming, mobility, VR, print, installation, telco, and managed services.

You will help build commercial capability from the ground up, shaping scalable ways of working, strengthening planning and decision-making, and driving outcomes that impact sales, margin, customer experience, inventory performance, and long-term growth.

These roles are best suited for people who enjoy:

- thriving in a growth-focused retail environment where commercial decisions directly influence customers, sales, margin, and competitiveness
- contributing to key growth areas, including B2B, Education, Government, private label, exclusive products, and emerging categories
- using insights (customer, competitor,



category, supplier, financial, inventory) to identify opportunities and inform decisions
- collaborating cross-functionally to turn commercial strategy into practical outcomes

Why this role exists:

The Space Planner exists to translate approved commercial, range and spatial decisions into accurate, executable planograms and store plans. The role ensures category changes and store programs are delivered on time, meet planning standards and can be implemented effectively by store teams.

Working flexibly across micro space, capacity, adjacency and floor planning, the role applies specialist lead direction to different categories and programs as priorities change. It maintains the quality and accuracy of planning files, resolves data and fixture issues and supports first-time-right execution across the store network

Where you will make a difference:

Planogram Development and Quality:

- Build, update and maintain micro space planograms for assigned categories and programs using Blue Yonder Space Planning.
- Translate approved range decisions, standards, spatial guardrails and lead direction into accurate planogram outputs.
- Apply product display requirements, fixture specifications and visual merchandising standards consistently across planograms.
- Validate product dimensions, packaging data and fixture information before publication, resolving discrepancies with the relevant teams.
- Complete prescribed quality checks to improve first-time-right publication and reduce store execution rework.

Store Plan and Floor Layout Delivery:

- Build, update and maintain MEP IV store plans and floor layouts for assigned store updates, format changes, renewals and new-store programs.
- Map approved category footprints, bay configurations and fixture specifications accurately against store architectural plans.
- Translate store formats, local conditions and physical constraints into practical store plans, applying approved macro space and adjacency decisions.
- Incorporate approved local variations while maintaining compliance with enterprise space and layout standards.
- Maintain accurate planogram repositories and store drawing libraries, ensuring effective version control and file accessibility.

Total Product Review and Store Execution Support:

- Deliver assigned space planning activities through Total Product Review and range update cycles in line with agreed milestones.
- Support range rationalization, new product introductions and category changes by producing accurate and executable planning files.
- Investigate and resolve product data, dimensional and fixture discrepancies in partnership with Category Planning, Category Assistants, Store Design and other relevant teams.
- Support physical trial builds and virtual store reviews to validate planogram and floor-plan feasibility before network rollout.
- Respond to store execution queries, clarify planning requirements and incorporate approved feedback into final outputs.

Flexible Delivery and Continuous Improvement:

- Work flexibly across micro space, capacity, adjacency and store planning activities in response to portfolio and program priorities.
- Apply standardized templates, automated planning tools and agreed workflows across Blue Yonder, monday.com, and MEP IV.
- Identify recurring planning, data and execution issues, escalating unclear requirements, conflicts and delivery risks to the relevant lead.
- Contribute to process improvements that strengthen output quality, reduce rework and increase planning capacity.




- Maintain current knowledge of space planning standards, systems and ways of working, developing broader capability across the planning discipline.

What success looks like:

- Gross Margin Optimization: Quantifiable gross margin and net profit improvement achieved across B2C retail channels and B2B contract accounts.
- Commercial Value Realization: High mitigation rate of supplier cost-price increases, target trading-terms value delivered, and successful B2B tender win rates.
- Operational Delivery and Accuracy: SLA compliance and accuracy rates for price change transmissions, in-store shelf ticketing, and B2B customer quote turnaround times.
- Automation and Capability Uplift: Measurable reduction in manual pricing effort and release of analyst capacity through automated tools, SAP workflows, and structured playbooks.
- Demonstrates behaviours aligned to Officeworks’ values, contributing to a respectful, inclusive and high-performing culture.

Who you will be working with:

- Category Management Teams: Partner with Category Managers, Category Planners, and Category Assistants to confirm product specifications, range review inputs, and layout requirements.
- Planning Leadership: Receive daily work allocation and coaching from the Space Team Leader, while applying specialist spatial guidance from the Micro Space Lead and Capacity and Adjacency Lead.
- Operational Delivery Partners: Coordinate with Store Operations, Store Design & Development, Property, Inventory, and Program Managers to resolve layout constraints and execution queries.
- External Solution Partners: Interact with space software providers (Blue Yonder), fixture vendors (IVE Equipment Design), and spatial automation partners (3DVRS) on technical specs and system tools

What success looks like:

- Delivery Velocity: High percentage of assigned planograms and store floor plans published on time in alignment with Total Product Review (TPR) milestones.
- Quality Execution: High first-time-right POG and store plan publication rate, minimizing store execution queries and rework turnaround times.
- Rule Compliance: High percentage of planograms published at parent size and adhering to store operational efficiency standards.
- Skill Versatility: Effective execution of planning tasks across both micro space planogramming and macro floor capacity mapping.
- Demonstrates behaviours aligned to Officeworks’ values, contributing to a respectful, inclusive and high-performing culture.

Qualifications and work experience:

Essential:

- Education: Qualification in Business, Retail Management, Design, Drafting, Analytics, or a related discipline is required (or equivalent practical retail space planning experience).
- Experience: 2–4+ years in planogramming, retail space planning, store floor planning, category support, or a related retail execution role.
- Technical Systems: Practical knowledge of enterprise space planning software (Blue Yonder Space Planning), MEP IV Store Plans, and spatial data structures.
- Planning Disciplines: Sound understanding of range review processes, store formats, linear space capacity, and local store variations.
- Data and Visual Accuracy: High attention to detail, strong spatial awareness, and proven capability to validate product dimensions and fixture specs.
- Problem Solving: Ability to identify spatial discrepancies, resolve data or fixture errors, and escalate delivery risks appropriately.
- Flexible Execution: Capability to operate flexibly across both micro space planogramming and macro capacity mapping based on team priorities.

Preferred:

- Drafting Tools: Practical experience with CAD drafting software, monday.com task management, or Scalene automation tools.
- Retail Environment Context: Direct operational background in retail store execution, visual merchandising, or stock replenishment.
- High-SKU Merchandising: Experience building planograms within high-SKU, fast-moving office supplies or technology retail environments.

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