Job Description
The Visual Design Team Lead will manage and direct the Visual Design team to create imaginative, eye-catching displays of merchandise to attract customer’s attention and drive sales. The Visual Design Team Lead will also plan and coach the Visual Design team to create an inviting show floor for our customers.
Pay: $23-$25/HR *** Pay is Determined and Verified Through Previous Experience and Certifications/Degrees***
Job Requirements
- 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 members to develop display themes and color schemes.
- Work as a team member by interacting and communicating with fellow associates cooperatively and constructively.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule that meets 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 initiatives.
- Partners with store management on critical visual merchandising decisions that impact store workload and sales.
- Researching to understand 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.
- Build schedules to accommodate business needs and monitor and correct timesheets.
- Interview, hire, and train new team members.
- Appraises employee performance, communicates goals and expectations, provides honest feedback, and coaches team members.
- Actively participate in annual show floor inventory scans.
- Make specific new merchandise displayed as soon as it is received.
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
- Communicates, leads, and develops teamwork with the Visual Design team.
- Identifying and reading reports, tickets, and UPC labels.
- Ability to efficiently work independently under 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 daily.
- 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 Visual Design Team Lead position requires lifting, bending, kneeling, stooping, and moving display props and accessories.
Physical Work Environment:
- Fluorescent Lighting
- Concrete Flooring
- Climate affected by external conditions, including extreme heat and cold.
- Considerable exterior noise
- Extreme temperature fluctuations in the warehouse
You’ll need to pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check upon the 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.
About Us
At AFW 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.