Jewelry/Visual Merch & Space Planning Mgr - Temp.

Kroger•Portland, OR

About The Position

Maintain consistent, quality positioning and visual merchandise presentations that maximize space, profitability, retain presentation standards and support divisional strategies in all Fred Meyer Jewelers locations. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Requirements

Minimum Bachelor's Degree in visual communications, marketing, merchandising, or related discipline
5+ years of experience in a visual merchandising or space planning for a specialty retailer, 1 year fine jewelry experience or 3 years of experience in other specialty retail; or combination of relevant education and experience
Familiarity with marketing/advertising strategies
Strong attention to detail
Proficient with Macintosh applications, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Suite, Microsoft Suite, and CAD
Familiarity with industry/technical terms and processes
Familiarity with publication plan-o-gram creation

Nice To Haves

Any experience directing and participating on project teams

Responsibilities

Model Customer 1st behavior; deliver and encourage other associates to deliver excellent customer service
Develop and implement the standardized visual merchandising program to include corporate brand elements, packaging, plan-o-grams, category floor plans, window and case merchandise layout and propping, signage, pricing, labeling, etc.
Train store associates to position their stores in a consistent manner; develop and maintain visual merchandising standards, communications, and training program for stores; develop space planning standards and strategy
Develop and produce decorative and merchandise props for all promotional periods; work with Marketing department on promotional themes and concepts to create promotional strategies for upcoming campaigns and in-case signage
Develop allocations of styles and groupings to create formalized plan; translate assortment plans into effective presentation and schematic plan-o-gram for use at store level
Assist with setting up the initial case and window layout of merchandise and all visual elements for store locations, as well as on-going assistance
Gather and disseminate intelligence on competition visual merchandising
Manage Vendor relationship for store and project based element ordering (i.e., visual store online, store requests through visual mailbox, project status report organization and working with buyers)
Streamline brand elements and program inventory with vendors and store facing ordering systems
Responsible for project management, communication, and budget management for Visual projects including work with multiple departments
Maintaining visual merchandising standards and communications, provide guidance to stores for execution of updates
Partner with Senior Planner on space planning initiative, helping create store level specific planograms
Assist with setting up the initial case and window layout of merchandise and all visual elements for store locations, as well as on-going assistance
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation