Visual Merchandiser

John Lewis Partnership; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading retail organization in Edinburgh is seeking a Visual Merchandising Partner to design inspiring displays and ensure exceptional presentation standards. The role requires creativity, teamwork, and flexibility to adapt to seasonal changes. Ideal candidates will have qualifications in Display or Design and experience in retail environments. This part-time position offers flexible hours to support work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Creative skills with an eye for detail.
• Experience of working within a team.

Responsibilities

• Delivering market leading merchandising and presentation standards.
• Working on seasonal and floor layout changes effectively.
• Demonstrating flexibility to support across other areas.

Skills

Creative skills with an eye for detail

Experience of working within a team

Education

Qualifications in Display or Design

Job description

About the role

As a Visual Merchandising Partner, you’ll design inspiring and eye-catching displays in our shop windows, to entice our customer into our shops, encouraging them to buy our products. You'll create a meaningful shopping experience for each and every customer who walks around our shopfloor with exceptional merchandising and presentation standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivering market leading merchandising and presentation standards.
• Working on seasonal and floor layout changes effectively and efficiently with minimal disruption to customers.
• Demonstrating flexibility to support across other areas of the branch and departments when required.
• Sharing knowledge and expertise with visual merchandising and branch colleagues to develop the departments and branches performance.
• Carrying out stock handling and systems processes to minimise business risk and loss.

Essential skills/experience you’ll need

• Creative skills with an eye for detail.
• Experience of working within a team.

Desirable skills/experience you may have

• Qualifications in Display or Design.
• Previous experience in the creation of displays.
• Experience of working in a retail environment.

Varied part-time hours (up to 36 hours per week). To include early starts and weekends.

The partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.