Visual Merchandiser

Ardmore Home Design • Industry, CA

3d • $70,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Visual Merchandiser plays a key role within our Visual team and is responsible for executing and maintaining visual standards and corporate direction relating to brand presentation for showrooms and tradeshows. A background in the home furnishings industry, with a strong emphasis on merchandising and managing the setup of tradeshows and/or showrooms is beneficial. The ability to travel to tradeshows and company showrooms for up to 40-50% of the year is required. This individual embraces and supports our in-person/on-site work culture and embodies our company values of Ownership, Collaboration and Respect.

Requirements

• Minimum of an Associates degree in Design or other related major
• Minimum of 2+ years of tradeshow and/or showroom visual merchandising experience
• Experience working for a luxury brand in home furnishings
• Pro-active; able to figure things out with little direction
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills
• Able to multi-task and make decisions quickly
• Works effectively in high pressure situations; will do what it takes to get the job done with a positive and mature attitude
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate future needs without being told by upper management
• Sophisticated problem solving skills; able to make split decisions with little information on hand
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to interact professionally and effectively with all levels of management and staff
• Able to manage vendors and resources
• Ability to travel 50-60% of the time
• Must exhibit good communication and influencing skills to work across all levels of the organization
• Passionate, highly motivated individual who is a self-starter
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; as well as reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to work in open environment with fluctuating temperatures and standard lighting.
• Ability to work on computer and mobile phone for multiple hours; with frequent interruptions.
• Required to use stairwells to attend meetings and engage with employees on multiple floors throughout building.

Nice To Haves

• Strong working knowledge of SketchUp and Adobe Suite is a plus

Responsibilities

• Maintain, analyze, and adjust seasonal floor plans for showrooms in designated market/s
• Layout multiple product SKUs prior to tradeshow or showroom setup; execute a visual layout based on available SKUs and SKUs arriving in tradeshow or showroom
• Analyze product sales in order to feature best-selling products; able to strategically analyze sales information to determine which products to add or remove from showroom/tradeshow inventory
• Partner with Visual Merchandising Manager and Visual Construction Manager to recognize and address brand presentation in designated markets
• Contribute and design new merchandising strategies with a brand specific focus
• Develop and source displays and fixtures when applicable
• Assist to manage/coordinator labor and freight for showrooms & tradeshows related to visual presentation
• Work with visual team to order graphics, logos or other collateral as necessary
• Ability to size logos, photos, interface with printers or outside graphics companies
• Assist with occasional operational tasks as related to tradeshow and showroom setup such as barcoding and tagging product displays

Benefits

• Play a pivotal role in our company’s transformation and growth
• Maintain work/life balance with day shift work schedules and no weekends, in a wholesale distribution business (no manufacturing)
• Align with a growing company that operates in the luxury market
• Provide training and career development opportunities
• Offer 3 weeks paid time off and 6 paid holidays per service year
• Enjoy a high-paced and collaborative work environment
• Receive up to 6% 401k employer contributions
• Take advantage of paid time off away from work, including scheduled company holidays.
• Participate in competitive benefits and incentivizing programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree