Visual Merchandiser - Eastleigh, United Kingdom - B&Q

B&Q

Verified Company

Eastleigh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the role

Visual Merchandiser

Permanent

£27,000 - £35,000 + Bonus + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working**
Southampton, Store Support Office
We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better.

From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they'll love.

Join us as a Visual Merchandiser and you'll be a big part of this.

At B&Q we have a hybrid approach to working to increase flexibility in when and where we work. This is a full-time opportunity, Monday - Friday.

For this role we are looking for someone to be able to work from our head office 3 days a week, with flexibility to scale up when required.

Key responsibilities

You'll be responsible for the design and execution of product layouts in B&Q stores in the UK and Ireland, ensuring that those layouts deliver the needs of the B&Q customer and UK Market.

You'll understand, how our customers shop and the projects that they undertake, both instore and online through analysing customer insights and market trends, our products and how they can help our customers and how our stores operate and how we can make things easier for the store teams.

Working closely with the wider VM and Commercial teams and you'll represent the needs of B&Q's customers in planning and development of principles and layouts.

You'll look to continually improve Visual Merchandising in B&Q by understanding developments and ideas in other businesses.

You'll identify and define clear VM principles using commercial tools available - update in line with the commercial strategy, and you'll design innovative product layouts and solutions; from initial thinking and visualisation through to physical construction and refinement in the merchandising lab and store implementation.

Required skills & experience

Experience in Visual Merchandising, Commercial, Store Operations or Store Design
Experience of understanding and responding to the needs of both internal and external customers
Trend awareness and creative mindset coupled with problem solving and innovation
Imagination and an ability to visualise
Be able to display a confident and professional style at all times and adapting to suit individuals and circumstances
Strong influencing skills when working with project stakeholders
Demonstrate commercial awareness including understanding the interaction of sales, costs, profits and market factors.
Passion for products and customers
Proven ability to work within strict deadlines and multitask multiple projects/tasks
Full driving licence and the flexibility to travel throughout the UK when required

What's in it for me?
As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more

As part of a great team, you'll be supported to grow and encouraged to explore new career directions within the business and the wider group.

And, because you'll be inspiring great things for our customers and the whole business, you'll do work worth caring about.