Sephora Space Planning Executive

About Sephora

Sephora is a global prestige beauty leader, renowned for redefining the retail experience through creativity, inclusivity, and expert service. Founded in France and now part of LVMH, the company brings together an exceptional portfolio of beauty brands with a distinctive culture of discovery and innovation. As an employer, Sephora offers a dynamic, customer-centered environment where talent is encouraged to learn, experiment, and grow across retail, digital, merchandising, operations, and corporate functions. Its teams are united by a passion for beauty, entrepreneurship, and belonging, making Sephora a compelling workplace for professionals seeking impact within a fast-moving international brand.

Role & Responsibilities

• Update approved brand planograms accurately and on time in JDA or another designated space-planning system.
• Validate approved submissions before implementation, checking brand, store, fixture, assortment, dimensions, effective date and supporting files; clarify incomplete or inconsistent information with relevant stakeholders.
• Create, revise and publish planograms in accordance with approved brand configurations, merchandising standards, system conventions and implementation timelines.
• Perform quality checks before release to identify placement, dimension, assortment, naming or version-control errors and ensure each final planogram matches the approved request.
• Investigate planogram discrepancies raised by local Visual Merchandising and Operations teams, coordinate approved corrections and track issues through resolution.
• Maintain status tracking and an audit trail of approvals, completed updates, pending clarifications and exceptions; escalate risks or delays.
• Coordinate with Category Managers and other relevant teams to resolve operational questions and ensure only approved changes are implemented.
• Review floor maps submitted by franchise markets in India and Indonesia for completeness, consistency and alignment with approved brand configurations and space-planning principles.
• Identify layout discrepancies, missing information, configuration conflicts and data-quality issues; consolidate feedback and follow up with market stakeholders.
• Upload new and revised floor maps to the designated AI-enabled space-planning tool, following naming, tagging, version-control and filing standards.
• Maintain current floor-map records and identify or archive superseded versions according to the agreed process.
• Support floor-map reviews, reporting and ad hoc analysis.
• Complete monthly uploads of planograms, brand configurations and related master data to the designated space-planning database within the agreed timetable.
• Perform validation and reconciliation checks to maintain data accuracy, completeness, consistency and version integrity across source files, systems and reporting outputs.
• Help maintain accurate brand-configuration, planogram and PDI information in DOMO.
• Investigate and correct data discrepancies promptly, document recurring issues and recommend practical improvements to data-control processes.
• Provide timely user support and Q&A to Category Managers using the space-planning self-service tool, including basic navigation, data interpretation and issue escalation.
• Maintain user guidance, frequently asked questions and issue logs to encourage consistent use of the self-service tool and reduce repeat enquiries.

Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in merchandising, retail, business, data management, design, space planning or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in retail merchandising, planogramming, space planning, master-data maintenance or a similar operational role.
• Hands-on experience with JDA or another space-planning or planogram system is preferred; confidence in learning new systems and AI-enabled tools is essential.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel; exposure to DOMO, other BI tools, Brand Portal or database platforms is an advantage.
• Ability to interpret planograms, floor maps, fixture information and brand-configuration data accurately.
• High attention to detail and a disciplined approach to validation, reconciliation, documentation and version control.
• Collaborative team player able to build effective working relationships across Category, Space Planning, franchise markets and other cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrates ownership, reliability, curiosity and a continuous-improvement mindset in a fast-paced retail environment.

Skills

Experience

Beginner-level relevant experience in retail merchandising, planogramming, space planning, master-data maintenance or a similar operational role.

Education

Diploma or degree in merchandising, retail, business, data management, design, space planning or a related discipline.

Culture

Sephora fosters a dynamic, inclusive workplace where creativity, curiosity, and a passion for beauty are encouraged at every level. As an employer, it is distinguished by its focus on empowerment, continuous learning, and a collaborative retail culture that celebrates individuality and client-centric innovation.

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