Regional Field Visual Merchandiser & Training Lead

DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 67,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

DICK'S Sporting Goods is seeking a Field Visual Merchandiser to support our Sacramento, CA and San Jose, CA House of Sport stores. Candidates must reside in Sacramento or San Jose, CA. The role focuses on elevating visual merchandising to drive sales and margins while adhering to brand standards.

The position involves regional training support, collaboration on new concepts, and participation in weekly regional calls to ensure implementation of visual standards across the field.

Qualifications

• Associate's Degree in Business Management, Retail Management, or Visual Merchandising.
• 3–5 years of multi-unit management experience.
• Multi-Unit Management Experience.
• Visual Merchandising Experience (preferably in softlines).
• Store technology functions.
• A demonstrated understanding of customer and retail merchandising strategies.
• Strong problem solving skills based on analytics.
• Engaging training and facilitation skills.
• Ability to be flexible and prioritize multiple projects while meeting deadlines and working independently.
• Ability to demonstrate strong conflict management and negotiate resolution.
• Knowledge of customer service and selling principles.

Responsibilities

• Promotes Visual Merchandising as a key contributor to sales, margin and turn by maximizing the impact of game plans, brand standards, productivity of product flow, escalating space issues, and seasonal movement of product.
• Evaluates and understands store KPIs to make commercial decisions and recommendations based on sound financial judgment.
• Supports stores at the region, district and store level through training, to ensure that game plan integrity is followed for major strike points and flexed for stores with unique space constraints.
• Supports company visual training and brand excellence through classroom training, virtual visits and hands on training within store visits.
• This would also include supporting new manager development and training at CORE for visual merchandising.
• Collaborates with critical partners to find and provide solutions to store specific visual merchandising challenges based on game plan direction, brand standards, store's unique architecture and sales performance.
• Ensures that all updates have field leadership and CSC visibility, updates are maintainable / sustainable and documented.
• Supports company new concepts and growth initiatives partnering with the CSC visual team and New Store Team to understand company merchandising strategies, adjacency relevance, game plan tactics and to act as the 'voice of the field' during set development through to execution.
• Participates in Regional / District weekly conference calls to drive planning, understanding and execution of brand excellence and visual standards.

Skills

Multi-Unit Management

Visual Merchandising

Analytics & problem solving

Training & facilitation

Negotiation

Customer service principles

Education

Associate's Degree in Business Management, Retail Management, or Visual Merchandising

Tools

Store technology functions

Job description

DICK'S Sporting Goods is seeking a Field Visual Merchandiser to support our Sacramento, CA and San Jose, CA House of Sport stores. Candidates must reside in Sacramento or San Jose, CA. The role focuses on elevating visual merchandising to drive sales and margins while adhering to brand standards.

The position involves regional training support, collaboration on new concepts, and participation in weekly regional calls to ensure implementation of visual standards across the field.