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About your role

As a Space Manager for Beauty at Åhléns, you are responsible for optimizing our sales spaces – with the goal of creating an attractive customer experience while maximizing sales and profitability.

You work at the intersection of assortment, analysis, and physical store operations. Through data-driven insights, understanding of customer behavior, and a strong business focus, you develop planograms and space solutions that make a difference in our department stores.

The role involves significant autonomy where you drive the work forward, influence decisions, and serve as a key figure in the development of our beauty business.

Examples of what you will do:

• Optimize sales spaces within Beauty based on business plans and assortment strategies
• Create, analyze, and develop planograms implemented across all department stores
• Analyze sales, gross profit, and space efficiency at the product and cluster level
• Ensure the right product, in the right quantity, in the right place
• Drive assortment and space revisions based on data and customer behavior
• Present analyses and recommendations to internal stakeholders
• Provide advisory support to product managers regarding assortment and space allocation
• Collaborate closely with purchasing, sales, visual merchandising, and expansion teams
• Contribute to the development of methods, processes, and tools within space planning

What we offer you:

Åhléns has been in many Swedish hearts for over 120 years and is on an exciting journey of development. Beauty is one of our most dynamic categories – where we invest in developing both the business and the customer experience.

Here you will find a role with significant impact, working close to the business and seeing the results of your work in our stores. You will become part of an engaged team driven by business acumen, collaboration, and development – in an environment where we not only manage, but constantly improve and build new things.

What you bring to us:

• Relevant education in areas such as economics, purchasing, or retail
• At least 3 years of experience in space management or a similar role
• Experience from retail, preferably within beauty or a related category
• Strong analytical skills and experience working with data
• Good proficiency in Excel and the Office suite
• Experience with space planning tools such as JDA, SpaceMan, or similar

To succeed in this role, we see that you are analytical and business-driven, with the ability to translate data into concrete and profitable solutions.

You are self-motivated and take responsibility for driving your work forward, while also having strong collaboration skills and thriving in a role with many touchpoints.

You are curious, solution-oriented, and proactive – and motivated by improving, developing, and creating results that are visible in both customer experience and sales.

About the recruitment process

The position is a permanent full-time role located at Åhléns headquarters on Dalagatan in Stockholm.

As part of our recruitment process, we use Alva Labs psychometric tests to create a more accurate and fair assessment.

Selection and interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis, so send in your application today!