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Project Planner
Project Planner (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)
Overview
- £32,000–£37,000 p.a. + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (3 days in the office)
- Location: Southampton, Store Support Office
Our Mission: “We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better.” From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO), we equip our teams and stores to help millions of customers create home spaces they love. Join us as a Project Planner and play a pivotal role in executing range reviews, ensuring they are delirvered efficiently—right the first time.
Role Purpose
As a Project Planner, you will: identify, manage, and deliver large, complex, and medium/small range change projects across the B&Q estate. handle planning and coordination to provide cost transparency, technical requirement clarity, and communication frameworks for seamless implementation by commercial, design, and operational teams.
Responsibilities
Core Accountabilities
- Collaborate with Merchandisers: Support cost tracking, reporting, and risk escalation for range reviews they oversee and scope—ensuring resourcing is precisely aligned with project needs.
- Support Project Management: Work under project-focused leadership to implement cost modelling (both macro and store-level), track budgets, and escalate issues to PMs proactively.
- Investigate & Optimise: Partnership with Category Teams, Visual Merchandising, and Planogram teams to build comprehensive store infrastructure and merchandising insights. Validate capability gaps in fixtures, equipment, utilities/sprinklers, and fixtures to address requirements before sign-off.
- Education & Adaptability: Drill deep into project briefs to uncover implicit needs and document hole gaps (informed by extensive knowledge of store layouts, product finals, and COGS structures).
- Survey and Data Capture: Lead preparation and QC of store condition assessments to capture validated ‘as-is’ conditions of stores.
- Scenario Planning & Documentation:
- Establish tailored implementation frameworks that log:
- Stockparts management
- Store services logistics (lighting, surveillance, etc)
- In-store/temporary storage planning
- Establish tailored implementation frameworks that log:
- Project-Trail Community: Act as final issues escalation hub, aiding internal/external teams (apparatus, temporary space qa, signage, etc.) with redundancy timelines and contingency responses.
- Cross-Functional Enablement: Share best-case implementation outcomes with external agencies and B&Q teams to hardwires performance skill. Work with Retail to scope closure, remedial resolution and approvals.
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Key Business Relationships
Builds effective partnerships with Internal and External Players: Internal:
- Project Managers (Commercial)
- Visual Merchandisers
- Planogram Teams
- Store Planners
- Merchandisers
- Shopping Experience Teams
- Point-of-Sale Partners
- B&Q-led Change Operations
- Retail + Equipment and Property Services
- Retail Capacity Planners
External:
- Contractors Providing ROC (Capex) /Workforce Services
- Retail Portfolio Implementation Teams
- Regional Supplier APs
Skills & Experience Required
Non-Negotiable:
✔ People Skills: Built on patience, clarity, and empathy. Balances mild vs. investigative listening with informed but non-defensive pressures to reduce time to finality on difficult decisions. ✔ Structured Problem Solving: Thrives under structured environments but unblinkingly interprets grey areas in shifts/fluxes, that colleagues are typically passive on. ✔ Project Accountability: Granular ownership of high-level costing to individual-level apportionment (pure numerical quotient are a baseline). ✔ Vision: Detailed knowledge of Retail Design bureaus, fixture and engineering cost dyes, COGS structure, and a ‘deal closing’ instinct that marshals stakeholder alignment. ✔ Independence: Ability to track beyond oversight constraints, present propositions for on-track efficacy measures, and explain internal audit compliance within the context of legal limits.
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Experience Baseline:
A track record in Retail or an adjacent industry that touches store transformation (e.g. agent-based merchandising, category cost appraisals). Innovative zoning experience, scalable experience is helpful, and an eye for restricting risk within errors. For a well-rounded asset, university/departmental points in commerce or supply chain’s specialities will be an aid but not precluded.
Why Work Here?
- As a flagship discount household name, B&Q offers growth, fairness and resilience ahead: Personal Performance Bonus, ShareSave swaps, enriched pension worthy of siblings, 6.6 weeks holiday, a democratic range of hybrid flexibility, and a commitment to a well-being explanandum.
- Geographically ambitious: With a foot in blue-collar flexibility and White-Hat Flexibility (for your own wellness and problem-solving) we complement progress to in-office engagement and programmes.
- Guaranteed Advocacy: Our continuous push is to embed a workforce where the ratios are strengthened by discussions and opportunities open to talent exchange. We support varying functional requirements with an adjustment for clarity prior marking. Sometimes, this means having specialist forums in the HR contact (members/connected). You can always use recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk.
Join us—life’s good when a home feels like home. ✖
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