Furniture Retail Visual Designer

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.
• Requires lift, lower, push and pull merchandise and display props of 50 Lbs.
• The Show Floor Visual Designer position requires lifting, bending, kneeling, stooping and moving display props and accessories.

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.

Salary : $22 - $24