Town Merchandiser

Merry Hill Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Footasylum is seeking a Town Merchandiser to manage a cluster of stores, reporting to the Area Manager and Visual Support Manager. You will maintain visual standards for footwear, accessories and apparel and drive sales through compelling visual propositions.

Required are at least 2 years' fashion retail experience, a full UK driving license, and strong written and verbal communication skills. You will need excellent organisational skills, time management, and flexibility to adapt to changing

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Fashion retail experience

Strong communication

Organizational skills

Time management

Flexibility

Job description

Description

As a Town Merchandiser within our business, you will be reporting to the Area Manager and Visual Support Manager you will look after a cluster of stores 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 is 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 review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a face-to-face chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

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.