Category Development – Specialist – Floor Planning

Sherwin-Williams is seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Floor Planning System Specialist to support store planning initiatives across our retail network. This role is responsible for leveraging Blue Yonder Floor Planning software to develop and maintain store floor plans and category planograms for new, remodeled, and relocated stores. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with Real Estate, Store Planning, Category Management, and other cross-functional teams to optimize space utilization, maintain system data integrity, and ensure floor plans align with category performance and business objectives.

Utilize Blue Yonder Floor Planning software at an advanced level to support floor planning activities across all Sherwin-Williams stores. Create, manage, and maintain store floor plans and planograms for new, remodeled, and relocated store locations. Partner with Division Real Estate teams to incorporate CAD-generated store layouts into the Blue Yonder environment. Analyze category performance data to justify and optimize planogram placement using performance-to-space methodologies. Develop recommendations that improve space productivity, product visibility, and customer shopping experience. Maintain and ensure the accuracy of fixture libraries, databases, and floor planning templates. Generate floor plan outputs and documentation to support store execution and operational consistency. Identify opportunities to improve floor planning processes, standards, and system efficiencies. Support cross-functional stakeholders with floor planning analytics, reporting, and implementation guidance. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships. Position is not remote/hybrid and will report to our Cleveland Global Headquarters.