Senior Store Planner

At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer. 

Job Description:

Senior Store Planner

The Opportunity: Contribute To The Growth Of Your Career. 

The Senior Store Planner develops Fixture Plans and Architectural Criteria Drawings for new stores, relocations, expansions, remodels, and special projects for all TJX chains. They make design and layout decisions in order to create plans for each project based upon site-specific requirements and budget guidelines, ensuring that TJX standards are met. Thoughtful decision making and attention to detail will result in an overall enhanced customer and associate “in-store experience”. End result…drive sales!

In conjunction with Store Planning Manager, the Senior Store Planner assigns projects for all new stores, relocations, expansions, remodels and special projects for designated TJX chains to Store Planning associates and outside consultants. They provide guidance to Store Planners and outside consultants with regards to conformance to planning guidelines, prototypical requirements, and site-specific criteria. 

Who We Are Looking For: You.  

• Gather and analyze project data to build site-specific plans. Make design and layout decisions for each project, relying on experience and judgment. Recommend solutions for efficient overall store layout, including all support areas and department adjacencies. Collaborate with Store Planning Management, Design Department, Store Operations, and Merchandise Planning and Analysis. Improve overall customer and associate in-store experience to drive sales.
• Compose architectural drawings that meet TJX standards and construction specifications, balancing design and operational needs.  Collaborate with Architects and Construction Department to interpret local building codes, adhere to store opening timelines, budget and lease requirements.
• Tackle site-specific challenges that arise during planning, drawing, and the construction phase of assigned projects. Develop creative solutions to resolve problems. Proactively partner with both internal and external teams to communicate changes and resolve project scheduling conflicts.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and accurate distribution and archiving of drawings and project data to meet Construction and Real Estate store opening schedules.
• For design-build stores, review completed site survey with collected data about existing conditions. Interprets and analyzes collected data to facilitate design development decisions with internal team. Conducts design-build meeting with appropriate team members. Develop site specific plans and architectural drawings that adhere to Construction budget and store opening schedule.
• Assists Store Planning Management in training and providing technical guidance to Store Planners and outside consultants with regards to implementation of planning guidelines and chain specific prototype requirements for new stores, relocations, expansions, remodels, and special projects for designated TJX chains. Delegates projects to Store Planners and outside consultants, ensuring timely and accurate distribution of drawings to meet Construction and Real Estate store opening schedules.
• Special Projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Architecture, Architectural Engineering Technology, or Interior Design preferred (or equivalent certificate). Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 4 years related planning experience, preferably in retail design, store planning, interior design or architecture.
• Retail store and fixture layout experience
• Strong understanding of retail store operations, building architecture, construction procedures, and related codes.  
• Working knowledge of Revit & AUTOCAD or equivalent software
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task while remaining flexible
• Strong time management skills

This position is hybrid requiring at least two days per week in the Marlborough, MA office and is not open to remote.

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