Visual Merchandiser

2 months ago

Walsall, United Kingdom Poundland Full time
About the opportunity

Join our team as a Visual Merchandiser (VM) and bring our company values to life

Reporting to the VM and Space Planning Manager, the Visual Merchandiser plays an important role within the Visual Merchandising team. 

The VM will be creating and maintaining planograms across the retail estate, creating captivating displays that leave a lasting impression, demonstrating how we 'love our customers'; by 'caring for our colleagues', the VM will collaborate with the visual merchandising team, retail and the commercial team; the VM will also 'protect the pounds' by ensuring maximum profitability from each planogram designed.

The role is based at our Customer Support Centre (CSC) in Walsall, with the ability to work agile between 'home' and the CSC.

This role comes with the ability to study for an apprenticeship qualification.

 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

What you'll be doing...

Love our Customers

  • Ensuring all planogram accurately reflect the commercial range and the business objectives
  • Visit stores and competitors to identify space management, store layout, product and range issue and opportunities and communicating relevant actions needed
  • offer feedback on how the current process can be improved for our customers

Care for Our Colleagues

  • Working within the VM team to ensure planograms meet the expected criteria for all acitivity within planograms to maximise sales
  • Working with the team and other stakeholdersat different mock shop locations to achieve physical builds for the catgoriesk, working with the buying team to ensure ranges are built to agreed objectives
  • physically building all ranges to ensure planograms are operationally viable for stores to follow

Protect the Pound

  • Creating, maintaining and updating planograms in each trading area across all store whilst making sure correct business objectives are reflected.
  • Create a visual representation of product in store, considering factors such as product demand, retail shelf space, visual appeal, and customer flow
  • Ensure range and space is managed effectively to deliver optimum performance with weekly planogram updates.
  • Interpret appropriate data to make decisions within planograms to maximise sales
What you'll need...
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Bias for action, strong work ethic, and desire to achieve excellence
  • Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
  • The ability to be comfortable with high volume workload and not be afraid to "roll up your sleeves"
  • Must have Commercial Acumen – understand the commercial objectives of the business and consumer awareness to ensure VM impact on business is optimised. Able to interpret appropriate data to maximise sales potential
  • Experience of space management systems eg SPACEMAN, JDA etc preferred but not essential
  • Experience of VM role in H/O or store level.
What we can offer...
  • Competitive salary 
  • Potential to earn bonus 
  • Free on-site car park 
  • Onsite coffee lounge
  • Discount Card – 10% discount on most purchases in store including PEP&CO
  • Family Friendly Benefits
  • Loyal Service Awards
  • My Staff Shop – exclusive discount portal
  • Apprenticeships & Career Development  
  • Life Assurance Cover
  • Health & Wellbeing – employee assistance programme to support you
  • Holiday Allowance – increasing by one day per year (up to 33 days), along with the option to purchase additional holiday (annually)
  • Pension
  • Birthdays are important, so each year, you can take the day off as an extra day’s holiday
About us...

From one store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990 to more than 850 across the UK and the Republic of Ireland today, Poundland & Dealz has developed a reputation for offering top brands and quality own-brand products at an amazing value. We sell everything from food and drink to DIY, pet products to stationery, not forgetting our very own fashion brand, PEP&CO. We have recently invested £45 million in the business, opened new stores and revamped existing ones. We’re on an exciting journey, and you can be a part of it.

We’re part of a much larger group in Europe called Pepco which has 3,000 stores in 17 territories serving 50 million shoppers, and the size of our business means there are so many opportunities for you to come and join us. From our retail stores to our support and distribution centres, everywhere you see Poundland and Dealz, you’ll find passionate and knowledgeable colleagues delivering amazing service to our customers. Once you’re part of our family, we’ll give you everything you need to be the best you can be, from training to coaching and mentoring. Our seven core values and seven leadership principles steer how we do business. They give us the building blocks to create a culture where everybody thrives, and sustainability is at the top of our agenda.

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