Job Description

Floor Planner

Classification: Exempt

Reports To: Director of Category Analytic

Position Overview: Utilize Relex Floor Planning software to create and maintain precise store-specific floorplans that maximize the highest sales per selling area. Work with merchants, space planners, and construction teams to optimize departments' and categories' position, performance, and layout.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Development of floor plans, elevations, fixtures, and merchandise plans as they relate to the development of store environments based on Vallarta Supermarkets criteria and new and developing trends.
• The role will provide fixture and merchandise design plans and elevations based on the provided criteria, as well as the Store Design Guidelines.
• Generate initial ‘test fits’ identifying opportunities/liabilities for each space 
• Development of new prototype fixture design concepts.
• Collaborate with internal partners to plan and communicate new store developments and updates.
• Ensure Designs incorporates all current design thoughts and callouts from internal partners.
• The Store Planner can perform multiple tasks within the store planning discipline.

Knowledge and Skills

• High-level understanding of retail design requirements.
• Knowledge of design trends and new products.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and ever-changing priorities.
• Ability to work and be successful in a fast-paced work environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Must exemplify Vallarta’s Core Values (Customer Service, Commitment, Integrity, Respect, Humility, Teamwork).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to utilize data and sensibility to drive solid decision-making based on changing conditions and priorities.
• Manage several requests and situations at one time or simultaneously (multitask).

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, Interior Design or related area, or equivalent Space Planning experience
• 3+ years of practical space planning experience, preferably in retail
• Proficient in AutoCAD with the ability to work quickly and efficiently.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

Commute to stores, as needed, to manage projects, written policies, and procedures. Flexibility in schedule to work extended hours, nights, overnights, including some weekends,

to complete the job.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time exempt-level position; the schedule would be based on business necessity. Will be required to spend long hours sitting and using office equipment and computers. Monday to Friday (available to a flexible schedule based on needs). May require occasional weekend or after-hours work to accommodate vendor schedules or urgent procurement needs. Commute to stores, as needed. Travel required in California (25%).

Physical Demands

Will be required to spend long hours sitting and using office equipment and computers. May also have to do some light lifting of supplies and materials occasionally. 

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and employees may perform other duties as directed. All employees are expected to perform any reasonable task or request that is consistent with fulfilling company goals and objectives.

As of 2022, Vallarta counts on 53 stores throughout California (Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Kern, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Tulare, Orange, and Fresno counties), and more than 8,000 team members. The Gonzalez family promises to continue to strive for excellence in everything we do so that our valued customers always have a Vallarta supermarket to call their own.From one small carnicería in Van Nuys in 1985 to 53 full-service markets across California, Vallarta Supermarkets is a living, breathing tribute to the hard work and customer dedication of our founding family and all of our valued employees.Vallarta Supermarkets was founded by Enrique Gonzalez Sr., who was later joined in the business by his four brothers, his son and nephew. Their family roots and humble origins began in the tiny town of Jalostotitlán, Jalisco, Mexico, where Enrique and his brothers were raised on a meager farm. Their parents instilled in them at very young ages the importance of family and the power of a strong work ethic to overcome challenges.When the opportunity arose to immigrate in the 1960’s, the Gonzalez family was thankful to stake their claim in the “land of opportunity,” the United States of America. Right away, the five brothers got to work in restaurants, either as short-order cooks or bussing tables. Even though some of the brothers were still in school, they all worked to help the family make ends meet.In 1985, Enrique Gonzalez Sr. began his journey in the grocery business when he opened Carniceria Vallarta in a 1,000 sq. ft market in Van Nuys, CA. He focused on selling the traditional cuts of meats popular in his native Mexico with an emphasis on unequaled quality and the friendliest of customer service. He soon expanded the business to a second location and brought his four brothers into the business. From there the adventure truly began, as they worked together as a family to build both a reputation for excellence and a successful business.The Gonzalez brothers believed that the key to Vallarta’s success would be to combine elevated customer service with the highest quality products to serve the growing Hispanic community whose needs may not be addressed by big chain stores.That’s why, from the beginning, Vallarta Supermarkets offered a wider variety of the freshest, traditional foods from Mexico, and Central and South America than any other store. They offered specialty and traditional items customers couldn’t find anywhere else: cut-to-order Latin-style meats (ranchera, diesmillo, lomo de res), spices, fresh fruit and produce, delicious prepared foods, pan dulce made daily, plus everything else you would expect from a traditional grocery store. Fast forward to today where Vallarta has expanded its offerings to include a juice and aquas frescas bar, tortilleria, bakery (panaderia), a cevicheria and more.

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