Visual Merchandising Manager

Floor & Decor•Atlanta, GA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Visual Merchandising Manager is responsible for the conceptualization, development, communication, and implementation of the comprehensive visual merchandising components and standards of Floor & Decor (F&D) stores. This role ensures Floor & Decor is presented in a unified, consistent, and inspiring manner, while meeting timing and financial goals for projects, business, and/or spaces. The position requires driving cross-functional engagements and partnerships to ensure a 360-degree approach to all visual merchandising initiatives. This includes collaboration with the NSVM Project Management team for fixture compatibility, Merchant/Buying team for product marketing visioning, Creative/Marketing team for branding consistency and signage creation, and the Operations/Safety team to ensure execution and safety standards are met.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Visual Merchandising, Art, Design, or related field and/or equivalent work experience.
Three years of relevant experience required or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
Two or more years of project management software experience.
Two or more years of design software experience (AutoCAD, Google Sketchup, or similar).
Proven problem-solving and team building skills.
Excellent organizational skills and ability to create innovative solutions.
Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite.
Exempt level experience involving project management including planning, budgeting, monitoring, and appraising various aspects of tasks related to the projects.
Flexibility, resiliency and nimbleness; comfortable working in “grey areas” that are constantly changing.
Must be detail oriented and organized.
Exceptional communication skills along with an ability to influence without direct authority and build effective partnerships.
Comfortable taking risks, working through ambiguity and making decisions quickly.
Ability to multi-task, meet deadlines, and work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Leading new visual merchandising development, ensuring both creative and operational visual processes are met from conception to implementation.
Developing visual merchandising floor sets and coordinating prototype reviews with key stakeholders.
Ensuring planograms and adjacency flows align with the overall vision and standards to create a cohesive merchandise presentation that drives sales.
Partnering with Store Planning, Project Managers NSVM, and Construction on the layout and function of new stores, remodels, and category initiatives, including fixture packages and department updates.
Developing visual concepts for strategic merchandising initiatives for each Merchant/Buyer.
Partnering with Regional Merchandising Teams, Store CEMs, Project Managers, and the field team for NSVM to ensure high-quality execution of visual ideas through providing vision and tools, creating communications, training content, and performing audits.
Supporting the Senior Director, NSVM for Senior Leadership alignment walk-throughs.
Working through the Regional Merchandising group to teach and train stores on the execution of the Visual Standards Guide (VSG) by providing feedback and best practices on store walks, and participating in Regional trainings.
Determining new ways to create strategic Visual Merchandising solutions that inspire customers and draw them into specific key categories.
Working strategically with cross-functional teams (Merchants/Buyers, Store Planning and Allocation, Creative/Marketing, Store Operations, the Field, and Vendor Community) to develop standards for in-store presentations grounded in customer insights.
Partnering with the Store Project Budget & Planning Manager to ensure financial objectives are met by forecasting requirements, preparing budgets, scheduling expenditures, and analyzing variances.
Properly tracking personal expenses and coding appropriately, on time, and within SOP guidelines.
Managing invoices (coding) and tracking compliance to budget for all existing store projects.
Developing budgets, tracking actual spend, and communicating to the Store Project Budget & Planning Manager.
Developing and managing prototypes and the review process, including fixture documentation for cataloging all components.
Leading visual presentation innovation and re-invent/refresh projects.
Keeping the Visual Standards Guide up to date and available for store access through collaboration with relevant teams.
Documenting walks, meetings, and updates, and communicating them back to the Senior Director, New Stores & Visual Merchandising, to ensure alignment.
Developing executable timelines to complete projects and communicating these to the Senior Director, New Stores & Visual Merchandising.
Providing updates necessary for their responsible portion of the CPAR process for store projects and providing proper documentation to the Store Project Budget & Planning Manager.
Delivering strong leadership skills through hiring, developing, coaching, mentoring, and succession planning for associates.
Recapping and communicating to responsible partners and department team all updates on current and future projects.
Responding to emails and calls within 24 hours.