Visual Designer

About the company

American Furniture Warehouse

Furniture · 1,001 to 5,000 employees

What you'll do

• 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.
• Processing product in the warehouse to get it ready to be merchandised.
• Partners with store management on key visual merchandising decisions that impact workload and sales.
• Researching to get an understanding of what is needed and coming up with design ideas.
• Tasked with visual design and staging, partnering with buying teams to develop effective display themes and color schemes.
• Regularly pulls, unpacks, and styles new products to create compelling and shoppable visual displays that align with seasonal themes and store standards.
• Maintains brand presentation standards by continuously updating vignettes and ensuring displays are clean, complete, and customer ready.
• Collaborates daily with staging, warehouse, and buying teams to plan and execute floor moves, product refreshes, and featured displays.
• 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 specific new merchandise displayed as soon as it is received.
• Identifying and reading reports, tickets, and UPC labels.
• Ability to efficiently work independently under direct supervision.
• Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
• Training provided by AFW.
• All other duties as assigned by management.
• Interior design degree or related field of education OR visual merchandising/or similar experience not required but preferred.
• Coordinate and work effectively with multiple departments to continuously improve processes, maximize efficiency, and exceed customer service expectations.
• Work as a team member by interacting and communicating with fellow associates in a cooperative and constructive way.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies including but not limited to Storis, iPads, Excel, Word, etc.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that meets business needs, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Pay: Starting at $22 and up - Dependent on experience and educationPay Grade: $17.71-32.89
• At AFW we offer great perks: weekly pay, vacation and sick pay, benefits package (medical, dental, vision) and 401k matching!
• 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 Show Floor Visual Designer position requires lifting, bending, kneeling, stooping, and moving display props and accessories.
• Fluorescent Lighting
• Concrete Flooring
• The climate is affected by external conditions, including extreme heat and cold.
• Considerable exterior noise
• Extreme temperature fluctuations in the warehouse

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