Visual Designer

American Furniture Warehouse; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 30,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits package

401k

Job summary

American Furniture Warehouse is seeking a Show Floor Visual Designer to craft imaginative merchandise displays using color, lighting, and props to attract customers and drive sales. You will collaborate with AFW Management and the Staging team to create an inviting show floor for our customers.

You will coordinate with multiple departments, maintain brand standards, and develop display themes and color schemes.

Qualifications

• Interior design education or 2-5 years visual merchandising experience required.
• Coordinate and work effectively with multiple departments to continuously improve processes, maximize efficiency and exceed customer service expectations.
• Maintains brand standards for visual presentation throughout the store.
• Work with visual design, staging, and buying team to develop themes and colour schemes for displays.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule including evenings, weekends and holidays.
• Must learn and apply new technologies including Storis, iPads, Excel, Word.

Responsibilities

• Partners with the Staging Manager to prepare for and implement seasonal merchandising presentations and new visual merchandising initiatives.
• Partners with store management on key visual merchandising decisions that impact workload and sales.
• Develop design ideas by researching needs and trends.
• Maintain an excellent eye for detail in showroom presentations.
• Utilize AFWâs visual merchandising tools and direction.

Skills

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Color theory

Merchandising coordination

Education

Interior design education

2–5 years visual merchandising experience

Tools

Storis

iPads

Excel

Word

Job description

The Show Floor Visual Designer will create imaginative, eye-catching displays of merchandise to attract the attention of customers and drive sales, by utilizing design concepts, color schemes, lighting, and display props. The Show Floor Visual Designer will work with AFW Management and the Staging team to create an inviting show floor for our customers.

Pay:

$22-$24/HR (DOE, and Visual Design Degree)

Job Requirements

• Interior design education or 2-5 years of visual merchandising experience required.
• Coordinate and work effectively with multiple departments to continuously improve processes, maximize efficiency and exceed customer service expectations.
• Maintains brand standards for visual presentation throughout the store.
• Work with members of the visual design, staging, and buying team to develop themes and colour schemes for displays.
• Work as a team member by interacting and communicating with fellow associates in a cooperative, constructive manner.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that meets the business needs, including evenings, weekends and holidays.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies including but not limited to Storis, ipads, Excel, Word, etc.

Job Expectations

• Commitment to AFW’s safety policies and procedures and ability to promote safety awareness.
• Partners with the Staging Manager to prepare for and implement seasonal merchandising presentations and new visual merchandising initiative.
• Partners with store management on key visual merchandising decisions that have an impact on store workload and sales.
• Researching to get an understanding of what is needed, and coming up with design ideas.
• Excellent eye for detail.
• Ability to utilize basic design concepts to enhance showroom presentation.
• Ability to understand and interpret AFW visual merchandising tools and direction.
• Ability to offer solutions to store specific visual and merchandising challenges using brand standards.
• Actively participate in annual show floor inventory scans.
• Make certain new merchandise is displayed as soon as it is received.
• Identifying and reading reports, tickets and UPC labels.
• Ability to efficiently work independent of direct supervision.
• Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
• All training provided by AFW

Physical Requirements

• Requires the ability to maneuver in confined and at times congested areas.
• Requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, & bend for 8 hours a day.
• Requires constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back.

Physical Work Environment

• Fluorescent Lighting
• Concrete Flooring
• Climate effected by outside conditions including extreme heat and cold.
• Considerable exterior noise
• Extreme temperature fluctuations in warehouse

A pre-employment drug screen and pre-employment background check must be passed upon job offer. American Furniture Warehouse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

American Furniture Warehouse is a retailer of home furnishings, operating in Colorado, Arizona, and Texas. With more than 3200 employees, we pride ourselves on our ability to offer value and service to our customers. When you join AFW you become part of a professional, customer service oriented company.

AFW is seeking highly motivated, energetic, hardworking candidates to join our team.

AFW offers highly competitive pay and a full benefits package that includes 401k, medical, dental, vision and a host of voluntary programs including life insurance, disability, all at affordable rates.