Salary Details: Competitive salary and benefits packageLocation: Century House Brunel Road Wakefield 41 Industrial EstateJob Reference: cardfac/TP/1417897/32002
Are you passionate about creating brilliant in-store experiences that inspire customers and drive commercial success? Were looking for a Space and Visual Merchandising Manager to lead the way in bringing our brand to life across our retail estate. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how our products are presented, support key commercial priorities and make a real impact on the customer journey.
This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days working on site at our Wakefield Support Centre.
What youll be doing
- Own the space strategy across all categories, using customer insight, analytics and performance data to optimise sales density, customer flow and operational efficiency ensuring the implementation of floor plans, category space allocation, and macro and micro planograms
- Lead the development of space planning and visual merchandising rules and strategies across categories, campaigns, seasonal launches and promotions.
- Turning commercial plans, brand priorities and customer insight into clear store layouts, planograms and displays.
- Using sales data and insight to optimise product visibility, customer flow and space performance.
- Setting and maintaining merchandising principles and visual standards to support consistent execution in store.
- Working closely with Commercial, Marketing, Buying, Store Operations and wider teams to deliver activity on time and to a high standard.
- Lead, coach and develop the team, creating the right conditions to deliver merchandising objectives, support continuous improvement and contribute to projects, tests and trials that respond to changing business needs.
What were looking for
- Experience in space planning, visual merchandising and range planning within a retail environment.
- A strong commercial mindset, with the ability to balance creativity, customer experience and operational practicality.
- Confidence using data, insight and performance trends to make informed decisions.
- Great communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across teams.
- Leadership experience, with a supportive and motivating approach to coaching and developing others.
Card Factory is the UKs leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland. In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a trueOmni-channel retailer. This strategy sees significant investment into ourcolleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part ofourexcitingjourney.
In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
Benefits
- Pension
- 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
- Save As You Earn scheme
- Financial Wellbeing Support
- Financial Education Tools
- Salary Advance
- Seasonal incentive schemes
- Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
- Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
- Discounts across 100s of UK retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave
This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.
For any questions email:vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk(we do not accept CVs/Applicationsvia email)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.
No agencies, please.
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