Space & Merchandising Specialist

As a Space & Merchandising Specialist you will help build and shape the merchandising capabilities for vidaXL’s new Furniture, Home & Garden retail stores in the Netherlands.

You’ll own replenishment planning, inventory management, planogram execution, and merchandising analytics to ensure the right products are available in the right quantities and positioned in the right space. Working closely with Supply Chain, Category, Retail Operations, Marketing, and other stakeholders, you’ll turn data and commercial insights into actions that improve product availability, sales, and inventory productivity.

This is a new and foundational role, ideal for someone who enjoys building processes from scratch, solving problems with imperfect data, and translating an online assortment and brand into a successful physical-store experience.

• 6+ years of experience in retail merchandising, replenishment, inventory management, or a related field
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn sales and inventory data into actionable recommendations
• Experience in a fast-paced retail environment; furniture or home & garden retail experience is a strong advantage
• Hands-on experience with merchandising, replenishment, planograms, and/or space optimization
• Experience setting up or improving merchandising processes, tools, or ways of working
• Strong commercial mindset with an understanding of sales, availability, inventory, and space productivity
• Ability to make structured, commercially sound decisions with incomplete or evolving data
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to work effectively without formal authority
• High attention to detail combined with strong execution and follow-through
• Excellent organizational, time-management, and communication skills
• Comfortable working in a new environment where priorities, processes, and assumptions may change
• A proactive, hands-on mindset and the ability to take ownership from analysis through to implementation