Visual Merchandising In-store Specialist (37.5 hours) Retail · Birmingham, England

Space NK Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty retailer seeks a VM Specialist to enhance in-store visual merchandising standards and drive customer engagement. This role involves collaboration with store management and marketing teams to deliver a visually inspiring shopping experience. The ideal candidate will possess a passion for beauty and strong communication skills, ensuring brand installations and updates are executed efficiently.

Qualifications

• Specific interest and passion for visual merchandising.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to understand store targets and KPI’s.

Responsibilities

• Deliver visual merchandising standards and brand installations.
• Attract new customers through effective visual merchandising.
• Work collaboratively with store and marketing teams.

Skills

Visual Merchandising

Communication

Flexibility

Initiative

Passion for Beauty

Job description

If you love beauty, you’re in the right place.

As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.

Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

Role Overview

The VM Specialists main responsibility is to deliver visual merchandising standards, rate card updates, brand installations, and new launches, across the store. With a passion and enthusiasm for visual merchandising, they will liaise closely with the store management team, visual merchandising, and marketing teams to ensure activations are delivered on time and to brand expectations.

They must aim to deliver:

•Our Brand Vision and Mission by living our values and behaviours

• A visually inspiring and inviting store environment across all VM guidelines

• A fully compliant store, adhering to all company processes and polices

Key Responsibilities

• Attract New customers through our brands
• Delivers installations, rate card activations, and brand launches on time
• Understands the impact that visual merchandising has on acquisition of new customers and driving KPI’s
• Follows all stock handling policies to ensure stock accuracy and minimise stock loss
• Flexibility to work out of hours to support visual merchandising updates, launch new brands, events and promotions

Customer First

• Deliver a visually inspiring and easy to shop store experience
• When necessary, be able to support the Customer First service journey

Team

• Works as one team to ensure a visually inspiring store is delivered consistently
• Fully embraces the team effort and take pride in achieving a common goal demonstrating the ‘We Are One Team’ value
• Open and supportive of other ideas and opinions creating an inclusive, welcoming and approachable store environment

Communication

• Communicates clearly and concisely with their store team
• Confidently communicates with external business partners and store visitors
• Builds strong working relationship with visual merchandising department, and marketing teams

Operations

• Understands and adheres to all company loss prevention practices

Skills Required

• Specific interest and passion for visual merchandising
• Flexibility to meet rapidly changing priorities and deadlines
• Passion for delivering exceptional standards
• Confident in one-to-one communication
• Ability to understand store targets and KPI’s
• Strong communication skills
• Leads by example
• Values honesty and integrity in working relationships
• Embraces change
• Ability to follow direction
• Passionate about beauty
• Ability to use own initiative

Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted.

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

If you want to find out more about us, what it is like to work for us, all about our benefits, and our pledges on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, please visit our website.

Space NK are an equal opportunities employer.

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Please note that our current system does not use an automated filtering system.

All applications made via the website, through a third-party website or in-store will be kept on file for a period of 12 months.

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