Assistant Visual Merchandiser

Retail; Coventry; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Pensions scheme

Life cover

Performance bonus up to 5%

Annual holiday allowance

Cycle to work scheme

Salary advances

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Sainsbury’s is seeking an Assistant Visual Merchandiser to support the development and delivery of in-store visual guidelines and displays. You will work across product areas, developing packs, photography and layout guidelines to translate brand strategies into store-ready solutions.

You will combine creativity with commercial insight, using data and insights to influence layout decisions while coordinating with Marketing, Commercial and Retail teams to optimise store presentation.

Qualifications

• Ability to create and maintain product layouts using planogram software.
• Ideally previous visual merchandising experience with creating packs.
• Ability to analyse sales data and customer behaviour and apply findings to layout decisions.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deliver outputs to deadlines.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams on campaigns or product launches.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver visual merchandising guidelines for in-store displays.
• Create visual merchandising packs, product photography and layout guidelines.
• Review store execution and identify opportunities to enhance presentation.
• Use sales and customer insights to inform layout decisions.

Skills

Planogram tools

Adobe Photoshop

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Planogram software

Photoshop

Data analytics tools

Job description

Assistant Visual Merchandiser

About the team

Our Visual Merchandising team plays a vital role in shaping how customers experience our products in store. Working closely with Commercial, Marketing and Retail teams, we create engaging, customer-focused displays that bring campaigns and product launches to life. This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative team where creativity and commercial insight come together to influence the customer journey and support business performance across our stores.

More about the role

As an Assistant Visual Merchandiser, you will support the development and delivery of visual merchandising guidelines that help ensure products are presented in the right place, in the right way and at the right time. You will work across a range of product areas, supporting photography, video creation and layout building, while helping to translate brand and product strategies into practical, store-ready display solutions.

A key part of the role will involve creating visual merchandising packs, product photography and display guidelines that bring our ranges to life in store. Working closely with Marketing, Commercial and Retail teams, you’ll develop clear, engaging communications that support campaigns and product launches, while conducting store visits to review execution and identify opportunities to enhance product presentation. Sales and customer insights will also be used where appropriate to inform layout decisions and optimise displays.

More about you

You will bring a balance of creativity and commercial awareness, with the ability to use data and customer insights to support effective visual merchandising decisions. You will be comfortable working across multiple projects, managing competing priorities and delivering work to agreed deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy.

You will also have experience using planogram tools and Adobe Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop, to create clear and commercially effective layouts. A collaborative approach, strong organisational skills and the ability to adapt to changing priorities will help you succeed in this role.

Essential criteria

• Ability to create and maintain product layouts using planogram software and tooling.
• Ideally previous visual merchandising experience with creating packs
• Ability to analyse sales data and customer behaviour and apply findings to layout and product presentation decisions.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite applications, including Photoshop, to support visual merchandising outputs.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deliver agreed outputs to established deadlines.
• Experience of collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver visual merchandising activities, campaigns or product launches.

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts in Sainsbury’s Commercial. From product, proposition, packaging and price, to whether it meets our sustainability commitments or simply tastes great, our team is responsible for, all food, non- food and Clothing items available in Sainsbury’s stores, online and on demand. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment. People here are in it together and aren’t afraid to take risks. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about your products and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work.

Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

• Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year.
• We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover.
• You’ll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform.
• Your wellbeing is important to us too.
• You’ll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday.
• We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
• And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
• Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).