Visual Merchandiser Manager

Junior Visual Merchandiser Lead – Eden Gardens & Gro Oasis

Amazing opportunity to use your VM skills and creative flair to give our customers a cutting edge in-store experience. *Experience with visual merchandising a must for this role*

As a Visual Merchandiser Lead, you help create an environment that inspires customers to explore their personal style. You actively drive sales in store, and are responsible to implement and follow-up your team to protect the Visual Identity in order for us to make our customers look, feel and do good.

Duties and Responsibilities:

 Define, design and implement a creative visual merchandising strategy

 Create appealing and eye-catching visual displays that lead the customer through the entire store

 Produce window displays, signs, interior displays, floor plans and special promotions displays

 Identify key messages and set a clear image of the end result

 Come up with, revise and present design ideas with assistant merchandisers

 Act in alignment to the organization’s culture, products, image and target market

 Monitor costs and work within budget

 Oversee the production and brief staff on arranging displays

 Change displays to promote new product launches and reflect festive or seasonal themes

 Liaise with suppliers and source elements

 Research lifestyle, demographics and design trends

Skills / Qualifications required:

 Proven work experience as a Visual Merchandiser or Visual Manager

 Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio

 Solid experience in field visual merchandising, including window displays, signs, interior displays and space utilisation

 Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, or other visual design tools

 Knowledge of current visual merchandising trends and best practices

 Proficiency in MS Office

 Creative and innovative thinker

 Ability to analyze sales merchandising reports and survey results

 BS degree in visual merchandising, fashion merchandising, exhibition design, visual communications or similar

About Us:

Eden Gardens is Australia’s most diverse retail and horticultural business incorporating unique plant ranges and retail operation (homewares and gifts) with dining, exhibition and event spaces and a focus on education to ensure our customers understand and appreciate the power of plants and how they can improve almost every aspect of our daily life.

We believe in Enriching People’s Lives with Plants. Our vision is “To be universally recognised as the world’s leading retailer of plant related products that enrich people’s lives.”

Our team understand the holistic purpose of plants and are devoted to customer service and delighting customers. We strive to be personable and offer products that are striking quality and value, and hope that the customer experience here is inspiring and informative. We engage by contributing genuinely and without conditions in seeking to improve the quality of life of others through active participation with plants.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $65,000.00 – $75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Employee mentoring program
• Professional development assistance
• Travel reimbursement

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

Experience:

• Visual Merchandise: 3 years (Required)

Work Authorisation: