About the Role
Agile Retail is seeking a Retail Space Planner to manage visual merchandising, retail layouts, and space planning for stores, fit-outs, pop-ups, and branded retail environments. This role is central to the retail operation, requiring creativity, commercial awareness, problem-solving, and strong execution in a fast-paced setting.
Responsibilities
- Plan, develop, and support retail layouts that are visually impactful and commercially effective across various retail projects and brands.
- Own the planning and development of retail layouts, planograms, and merchandising solutions for stores, pop-ups, and branded retail environments.
- Interpret client briefs and translate them into effective retail layouts and space plans.
- Optimize retail space, customer flow, and fixture placement to maximize commercial performance.
- Collaborate with project managers, creative teams, production teams, and clients to ensure brand standards are maintained.
- Support retail rollouts, seasonal updates, store refreshes, and new store openings.
- Work closely with production and build teams to ensure layouts are practical and deliverable onsite.
- Resolve layout and merchandising challenges during live installations.
- Maintain accurate drawings, layouts, and merchandising documentation throughout projects.
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve retail layouts, customer journey, and merchandising effectiveness.
Requirements
- Experienced in visual merchandising, space planning, or retail design.
- Creative with a strong understanding of retail layouts, customer journey, and visual presentation.
- Commercially aware with an eye for improving customer experience and retail performance.
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
- Comfortable managing multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Confident communicator who enjoys collaborating across creative, production, and project teams.
- Proactive, solutions-focused, and enjoys balancing creativity with practical retail functionality.
- Experienced creating planograms, merchandising layouts, and retail space planning solutions.
- Experience with SketchUp, AutoCAD, or other space planning software is a plus.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite is a plus.
- Experience with fashion, beauty, lifestyle, or luxury retail brands is a plus.
- Experience with retail fit-outs, pop-ups, or experiential activations is a plus.
- Experience with retail production processes and fixture planning is a plus.
Skills
- Visual merchandising
- Space planning
- Retail design
- Retail layouts
- Customer journey
- Visual presentation
- Commercial awareness
- Project management
- Attention to detail
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Planogram creation
- Merchandising layout
- SketchUp
- AutoCAD
- Adobe Creative Suite
Location
- Hammersmith, LONDON
Work Type
- Full Time
- Permanent
- 4 days office / field & 1 day WFH
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- £35,000 per annum plus competitive bonus & benefits
Benefits
- Enhanced Holiday
- Quarterly Socials
- Thriving Business
- Dress down office environment
- Office gym
- Communal bar
- Cafe
- Dog friendly office
- Outdoor terrace
- Quarterly company bonus
- Enhanced paid holiday
- Booze bar & snack area
- Regular work socials inc summer & Christmas parties
- Wellbeing allowance
About the Company
- At Agile Retail, we operate stores, build brands and support some of the world's most recognisable retail businesses.
- Fast-growing retail business working with major global brands.
- Energetic, entrepreneurial culture where creativity and accountability matter.
