Regional Merchandiser

Do you want to join a renowned and established family business of over 150 years, working sociable hours in a fun and friendly environment with an amazing bunch of people?

We place great value on all our team members and how they contribute to the ongoing success and growth of our Company.

Reporting into the Garden Centre Area Manager, the Regional Merchandiser will also work closely with the central Merchandising Team in order to keep up to date with merchandising initiatives to ensure consistency across all Hillier Garden Centres.

We are offering a competitive salary, depending on experience. In addition, there is an option to join the Hillier Group Pension Scheme, with enhanced pension contribution rates and life assurance cover. An employee discount of 20% is also provided.

Key responsibilities:

- Maintain great brand standards in all centres within your region
- Implement the Hiller merchandising strategy utilising all available tools including planograms, campaign guidelines, VM tools etc.
- Support the central Merchandising Team to set up key launches
- Create zone and block plans with your centre teams for key launches
- Help to plan and have an input into monthly meetings with our Merchandising Champion population
- Ensure equipment and POS is correctly implemented and collate centre orders where necessary
- Keep an open dialogue with the central Merchandising Team to feedback successes and challenges in the field
- Educate and coach the centre teams on best practice
- Where necessary provide feedback to centre management and create action plans where brand standards are not met
- During centre redevelopments work closely with the central Merchandising Team and centre team to launch new concepts. Be the point of contact of site the remerchandising activity
- Maintain a commercial awareness of what is happening in the business that informs your decision making on a daily basis

Skills and Experience:

- Previous experience of being in a regional merchandising or visual merchandising role
- Proven record of utilising merchandising to drive sales
- Knowledge of visual merchandising principles
- Ability to develop merchandising skillset through coaching within our estate
- Able to build and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues in different areas of the business as you will be working with a multi-functional team
- Ability to adapt your communication style to work with colleagues of varying levels of merchandising abilities
- Able to manage multiple projects at one time
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Able to manage diary and changing priorities