Visual Merchandise Manager

Almondsbury Garden Centre is a family run independent garden centre in Bristol that has been supporting the community for the past 93 years.

We are looking for an ambitious, self-motivated and experienced Visual Merchandise Manager to join our team. A love of everything gardening and a particular love of Christmas are desirable. You will be hands on and an effective team player.

As a Visual Merchandise Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring our Centre looks immaculate and inspiring everyday. You’ll need to:

Responsibilities

• use your creativity and awareness of trends to develop ways to promote our products
• liaise with teams about buying, design and marketing to create design themes and plans, often months in advance, including window and in-store displays
• meet with retail managers to implement store sales strategies
• identify and source props, fabrics, hardware and lighting
• maintain a budget and negotiate with suppliers of visual materials
• work with architectural features of store to maximise the available space
• create visual merchandising packs to communicate visual guidelines including layout principles, visual dressings and signage
• assemble or dismantle visual displays in windows or in-store
• seek feedback from colleagues and customers on the visual impact of displays and of the changes implemented.
• Support retail teams when needed.

Skills and Experience

• Previous experience of being in visual merchandising role
• Proven record of utilising merchandising to drive sales
• Knowledge of visual merchandising principles
• Ability to develop merchandising skillset through coaching within our estate
• Able to build and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues in different areas of the business as you will be working with a multi-functional team
• Ability to adapt your communication style to work with colleagues of varying levels of merchandising abilities
• Able to manage multiple projects at one time
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Able to manage diary and changing priorities

Job Offer

• A positive and collaborative company culture.
• 28 days holiday leave.
• A range of company benefits.
• Salary £30 to 32k

To apply for the role, please send a covering letter and CV to Richard Truscott, General Manager.

Closing Date for Applications is Wednesday 25th February

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