Visual Merchandiser

Poundland Far East Limited; Walsall; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Walsall is seeking a Visual Merchandiser to optimize the space performance across all store sizes. The ideal candidate will have experience in retail environments, strong analytical skills, and a firm understanding of visual merchandising principles. You will build impactful visual plans that enhance customer shopping experiences while collaborating with various teams. The role offers professional development opportunities and company benefits aimed at supporting you and your family.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Bonus potential

Company Car

Exclusive store discounts

Family-friendly benefits

Life assurance cover

Health & Wellbeing programme

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in FMCG, General Merchandise, or Fashion retail environments.
• Strong proficiency in using space management systems is preferred.
• High attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain visual merchandising plans.
• Analyze space performance data for actionable insights.
• Collaborate with trading teams on performance objectives.

Skills

Knowledge of retail operations

Visual Merchandising

Analytical skills

Microsoft Excel

Communication skills

Education

Experience in Visual Merchandising

Tools

Spaceman

JDA

Job description

Our Stores are one of our most valuable assets and our Visual Merchandising department play a pivotal role in optimizing the performance of each and every bay within a store.

The Visual Merchandising department sits within our Commercial team and reports into the Micro Space Manager.

The role of a Visual Merchandiser is to build and maintain visual merchandising planograms that optimise the space performance and consumer offer in each trading area across all store sizes. You will use a number of tools, including sales data, customer insights and decision trees.

Your role will be to create impactful, visual merchandising plans that are operationally easy to implement and easy for customers to shop.

We uphold three core behaviours that guide all our actions:

Love Our Customers: We strive to delight our customers, listening and responding to their needs because they are our priority.

Care for Our Colleagues: We support each other to foster a workplace where everyone can thrive.

Protect Our Pounds/Euros: We are committed to cost-efficiency and value, ensuring every penny counts.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

• Professional development: A comprehensive induction plan and the opportunity to complete in-house development programmes to set you up for success or to pursue QUALIFICATION through our apprenticeship programme.
• Bonus Potential: Unlock the possibility of earning additional bonuses, rewarding your hard work and achievements.
• Company Car: We operate an EV fleet to help protect the future environment.
• Exclusive Store Discounts: Receive a 10% discount on most in-store purchases, enhancing your shopping experience.
• Family-Friendly Benefits: Our comprehensive benefits are designed to support your and your family’s needs.
• My Staff Shop: Gain exclusive discounts through our ‘My Staff Shop’ portal, saving on various products and services.
• Life Assurance Cover: Enjoy peace of mind with our life assurance cover, securing your family’s future.
• Health & Wellbeing Programme: Benefit from an employee assistance programme that supports your health and wellbeing.
• Generous Holiday Allowance: Start with a generous leave entitlement that increases by one day each year (up to 33 days), with the option to buy additional holiday annually. Celebrate your special day off work every year with an extra day’s holiday because we believe birthdays are important.
• Pension Scheme: Plan for the future with our contributory pension scheme, helping you save for a secure retirement.

• Create, analyse, and interpret space performance and merchandising (planogram) data to provide actionable recommendations to the commercial team, optimising range and space performance.
• Develop planograms and physical bay layouts aligned to agreed ranges, ensuring effective SKU and space optimisation.
• Review and complete pre-buy and range review programmes on schedule and to the required quality standards.
• Deliver optimum presentation standards across all planograms, ensuring commercial, customer, and operational effectiveness.
• Produce planograms that are operationally practical and deliverable in store.
• Collaborate closely with the trading team to ensure clear understanding of space performance objectives and full engagement in using space data to drive business performance.
• Conduct regular store and competitor visits to identify space management, store layout, product, and range opportunities or issues, and ensure appropriate actions are taken.
• Visit new store openings to identify and action any layout, space, or range issues and opportunities, ensuring best practice is implemented from launch.

• Demonstrated understanding of planograms and the in-store customer journey.
• Previous experience in Visual Merchandising within FMCG, General Merchandise, or Fashion retail environments is very desirable.
• Sound knowledge of retail operations and store execution.
• Experience using space management systems (e.g. Spaceman, JDA) desirable but not essential.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and the wider Microsoft Office suite.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
• High attention to detail, with the ability to work accurately at pace in a high-volume environment.
• Highly organised, with strong time management and prioritisation skills.
• Comfortable managing a demanding workload and willing to take a hands‑on, “roll up your sleeves” approach.
• Proactive, resilient, and tenacious, with a strong drive to deliver high standards consistently.
• Enthusiastic, positive, and solutions‑focused, with a strong work ethic.
• Ideally possesses in-depth knowledge of micro space planning, range planning, retail equipment, consumer shopping behaviour, and visual merchandising principles.

Since our humble beginnings in 1990, Poundland has evolved into a retail powerhouse with over 850 stores and nearly 17,000 dedicated colleagues across the UK and Republic of Ireland. The addition of Dealz in 2011 further solidified our presence, enabling us to reach millions of customers with our unparalleled value offerings.

At Poundland & Dealz, we don't just offer products at unbeatable prices; we cultivate an environment where every colleague can thrive and contribute to our mission of providing amazing value to millions of customers.

Our commitment to excellence, inclusion, and sustainability forms the foundation of our culture, empowering our team members to be the best versions of themselves while making a meaningful impact on the communities we serve. Our behaviours and the hard work, commitment and passion of our wonderful colleagues make it all possible.

We like to keep things simple, so we have just three behaviours that lie at the heart of everything we do and keep us on track. They are Love our customers, Care for our colleagues, and Protect the Pounds and Euros. By living our behaviours every day, we've created a land that is fun, friendly, and full of surprises—a place where our people can truly be the best versions of themselves!