Town Merchandiser

**Description**

As a **Town Merchandiser** within our business, **you will be** reporting to the **Area Manager** and **Visual Support Manager. **Although your base store would be Preston, this position is field based and** **you will look after a cluster of stores around** Lancashire,** including _Blackpool, Preston, Blackburn_ and _Bolton._

You will be responsible for and maintain the visual aspects of footwear, accessories and apparel. Tasks in which you will undertake are as follows;
- Implement and maintain business guidelines throughout your stores.
- Driving sales through visual proposition and maintaining impeccable visual standards.
- Deliver the company strategy through visual merchandising ensuring it stays true to our DNA.
- Conduct constructive floor walks within store teams to ensure company guidelines are being achieved.
- Train & develop in store team to ensure company guidelines and standards are met.
- Review and refresh in store layouts and window displays to ensure they are the best at all times.
- Collate information and photographs of store set ups.
- Assisting with new store set-up.

**Why Footasylum?**

We’ve been on a journey, growing significantly over the last few years. We are vibrant, engaged and performing well. Innovation is key to our business, and we have been looking at how we deliver value to our wider Retail estate.

We want to create a place for colleagues to do their best work, and you will have the opportunity to influence our decisions, help define Retail standards across the Estate and contribute to a happy and healthy working environment.

**About you**:

- A minimum of 2 years’ experience ideally within a fashion retail environment.
- A Full UK driving license.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills and effective time management.
- Must be flexible in working pattern and able to change at short notice.
- Must be able to work to tight deadlines and cope with working under pressure.
- Must conduct/present yourself in a professional manner.

**Diversity**:
We recognize and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are providing services to our colleagues and customers. We know that this will help us build a great service, which our customers will love. This great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

**Recruitment process**:
We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you, and why you feel this is the opportunity for you.