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Trading Space Visual Merchandiser

ID
2026-136551
Type
Full Time
Contract
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Job Locations
UK-Hampshire-Eastleigh
Category for Candidate Portal Searching
Commercial

Overview

Trading Space Visual Merchandiser

Permanent

Up to £35k + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (3 days per week in the office)

Southampton, Store Support Office

 

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Buying Assistant and you’ll be a big part of this. 

 

What's the job?

To co-ordinate the Visual Merchandising elements of the trading plan for each specific Trading area. To work closely with the Trade Planning Lead, the categories, the Visual Merchandisers and the planogrammers to bring to life all aspects of the trading plan. Enhance the customer experience by ensuring the right products have the right space in our estate as well as working closely with our central retail teams to make sure the trading plan is right for the end customer by enabling ease of in store execution.

 

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the co-ordination of all Visual Merchandising aspects of the trading plan
  • Support the co-ordination and visual merchandising of trading layflats
  • Define and continually update detailed principles for trading space visual merchandising using customer insight and your awareness of trends and how customers shop.
  • Ensure these principles are applied in product layouts and end set ups
  • Responsible for setting up when required aspects of the trading plan and trading layflats
  • Engage and present campaign set ups to wider commercial teams with support of the categories.
  • Know and understand what trading, impulse and category space stores have by maintaining a robust matrix for each respective trading area
  • Close working relationship with the planogramming team and ability to share complex work in a simple fashion to ensure accurate planogram capture
  • Work within parameters of the campaign / layflat CPAs ensuring all deadlines are met and the wider teams are supported
  • Be a key advocate and spokesperson about the importance of our store teams keeping to the plan and continuously gather feedback from stores about the merchandising of ends
  • Work with trading POS team on all aspects of POS required for both trading plan and layflats

What we need:

Required Skills & Experience:

 

·       Strong communicator with experience in building and maintaining

relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

·       Ability to plan and prioritise workload, with multiple projects and strict deadlines

·       High level of attention to detail and accuracy.

 

Advantageous:

•        Previous experience within a retail environment

•        Customer focused

•        Previous visual merchandising experience

•        Managing projects

What's in it for me?

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

  • Award-winning pension scheme
  • Bonus Scheme
  • ShareSave options
  • 6.6 weeks holiday
  • Payroll giving
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Shopping discounts
  • Colleague wellbeing benefits
    …and much more.

 

Equality and Inclusion

We want to ensure that all employees, future employees, and applicants to all Kingfisher companies are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

Find out more about us, including the benefits we offer and our community, sustainability, and inclusion projects at bandqcareers.com.

If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at:

  • ssorecruitment@b-and-q.co.uk
  • recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk

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We want to ensure that all employees, future employees and applicants to all Kingfisher companies are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

Find out more about us, including the benefits we offer and our community, sustainability and inclusion projects at bandqcareers.com If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk