Display and Visual Merchandising Assistant

Job Introduction

• Display and Visual Merchandising Assistant
• Property & Visual Image
• Permanent
• Part time - 24 hours per week (flexible)
• £14,720 per annum / £11.75 per hour (pro rata of £23,000)
• Close date: Sunday 5th May
• Telephone interviews : w/c 6th May

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Visual Image team wishing to pursue a career in Display and Visual Merchandising.

This is an extensive role, ideal for a highly organised individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for Visual Merchandising.

As Display and Visual Merchandising Assistant, you will be an integral part of the team ensuring we positively influence sales through consistently high standards. Supplying our stores with the required display orders is vital to their success.

The awards we’ve been given as an employer speak volumes about what it’s like to work here, some of which are:

• UK's 3rd Best Large Company to Work For – Best Companies 2023 – based on employee feedback (We’ve been in the top 10 for the last 5 years)
• Retail's Best Company to Work For - Best Companies 2023
• 3 star accreditation from Best Companies for the 18th year running, which reflects 'world class' levels of workplace engagement.
• ‘The Happiest Place to Work’, in partnership with Retail Trust, at the Retail Week Awards 2023

AMAZING BENEFITS FOR AMAZING PEOPLE

They say you get out what you put in. And, at Beaverbrooks, our people put in so much.

In return, some of the benefits we offer include:

• Great office profit share bonus
• Outstanding colleague discounts which extend to your family & friends
• Free car parking
• Wellbeing scheme
• Contributory Pension & Life Assurance
• Regular social events - including, but not limited to: pay day drinks, football hospitality events, theatre and theme park trips.
• Free eye test every 2 years
• Flu Vaccinations paid for
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Maternity return to work bonus
• Employee & family support & counselling – Retail Trust

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Fulfilment of display orders, supporting stores with any requests or challenges to educate and/ or provide solutions.
• Coordinating display deliveries and management of our storeroom.
• Communicating effectively with our suppliers to ensure requirements are ordered and received within timeframes and at the agreed quality. 
• Communicating effectively with our brand partners to ensure our stores receive the display equipment needed and help them to develop the displays to our required specification.
• Ordering of the display equipment including auditing and working within an agreed budget.
• Gathering and recording information and data to support the Visual Merchandising team.
• Communicating effectively within the department regarding Visual Merchandising initiatives and proposals.
• Support our Visual Merchandising team to achieve agreed objectives, ensuring tasks are completed effectively and within the agreed time frames. 
• Coordinating our visual merchandising guidelines and communicating to our stores.  
• Support with new product and display launches.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

Essential Skills and Experience

• Keen interest and passion for Visual Merchandising and Beaverbrooks.  
• Positive and proactive attitude.
• Confidence communicating across all channels.
• Down-to-earth approach and enthusiasm to learn new skills.
• Motivated to work individually and in a team.
• Basic Microsoft skills (Word, Excel, Power-point).
• Experience creating instructions and guidelines.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in your work.
• Flexibility with working hours at specific times (i.e. store and supplier visits).
• Willingness and ability to learn about our brand and products, the people we work with, their roles and of course how we merchandise our product.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in Visual Merchandising and / or retail environment. 
• Ability to create and present PowerPoint presentations.
• Experience developing or using Visual Merchandising guidelines.
• Experience in budget control.

ABOUT BEAVERBROOKS

We’re a family business. And you can tell that when you get here. It feels like family.

Established in 1919 we now have 88 locations across the UK, with 63 Beaverbrooks stores plus 22 dedicated brand boutiques including Tag Heuer, OMEGA, Breitling and Tudor. We also have our very successful ecommerce website, which was launched in 2001. We provide exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches as well as top name brands such as TAG Heuer, Omega, Breitling, Tudor, Gucci and Vivienne Westwood.

Our purpose is to enrich lives, which simply means making a positive difference to the world we live in. We donate 20 per cent of retained profits to charity and since the year 2000, Beaverbrooks has donated £23.5 million to over 750 different charities.

We pride ourselves on the work we do for local communities and in support of this we offer charity matching – you raise it, we match it! You can also take 2 paid charity days per year where you can spend time away from the business doing charity work and take time off to give blood.

Beaverbrooks - The hallmark of amazing people

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