Visual Merchandising Assistant – West Elm Jobs in Australia

Job title: Visual Merchandising Assistant – West Elm

Company: Williams-Sonoma

Expected salary:

Location: Chatswood, NSW

Visual Merchandising Assistant – West Elm Job Details:

Job Description:

Our West Elm store in Chatswood is looking for a Visual Associate to join the team. You’ll be working with our Field Visual Merchandising Managers and Store Managers to deliver our in-store visual merchandising plans.

Our Williams Sonoma / Pottery Barn / Pottery Barn Kids / West Elm store in XXLOCATIONXX is looking for a Visual Merchandising Assistant to join the team. You’ll be working with our Field Visual Merchandising Managers and Store Managers to deliver our in-store visual merchandising plans.

This is a great opportunity if you have a passion for homewares and visual merchandising (VM) and a keen eye for detail. Our ideal candidate is looking to work full time (38 hours per week) Monday to Friday.

As a Visual Associate in one of our stores, you will:

• Work with one of our stores to really get to know our brand DNA – either Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids or West Elm.
• Replenish the sales floor after deliveries arrive and throughout your time in store, ensuring the store is presented to our standards.
• Execute our floor set following plans set by our Field Visual Merchandising Managers.
• Follow a store map including placement and furniture assembly.
• Update signage and ticketing weekly according to current promotions.
• Ensure the store meets our visual merchandising objectives, to drive sales and convey the spirit of the brand.
• Send photo updates to the Field Visual Merchandising Manager, compile weekly visual memo updates and communicate changes to the store team.
• Participate in regular visual walk-through to identify and solve issues.
• Assist with store operations, including keeping the store clean and safe and specialist services, like gift wrapping.

We think you’ll be successful in this role if you:

• Have experience or a qualification in visual merchandising.
• Have a passion for homewares.
• Have an understanding of design, composition and aesthetics.
• Can interpret and execute a merchandising plan from a visual memo.
• Have an impeccable eye for detail.
• Can motivate, inspire and influence others to maintain visual merchandising standards.
• Have excellent communication, planning, prioritising and organisational skills.
• Have basic IT skills, and experience with Outlook, Excel and Adobe PDF Viewer.
• Are able to fulfil the physical requirements of the role, including being mobile in the store and back of house areas, standing for long periods, working in confined spaces (such as stock rooms), climbing ladders and using other equipment (in line with safety standards), and lifting and mobilising medium to large items (utilising appropriate equipment and safety techniques).

You’ll love working here because:

• We’re a successful, fast-growing company with an entrepreneurial vibe.
• We pay competitively and off a generous discount across our family of brands.
• We love to promote internally, and offer many development opportunities through training, coaching and cross-brand and cross-function career moves.
• We’re passionate about where we’ve come from, but we’re pushing forward, redefining retail for the next generation.
• We live and breathe client experience.
• We have a smart, experienced leadership team that are open to fresh ideas.
• We believe in autonomy and reward you for taking initiative.
• We get to be creative daily and we have fun!

Please note, this is a full-time (76 hours per fortnight) role. Only those holding full work rights in Australia will be considered.

About Us:

Williams-Sonoma Australia Pty Ltd. is a multi-channel specialty retailer of high quality products for the home.

In 1956, our founder, Chuck Williams, turned a passion for cooking and eating with friends into a small business with a big idea. He opened a store in Sonoma, California, to sell the French cookware that intrigued him while visiting Europe but that could not be found in America. Chuck’s business, which set a standard for customer service, took off and helped fuel a revolution in American cooking and entertaining that continues today. In the decades that followed, the quality of our products, our ability to identify new opportunities in the market and our people-first approach to business have facilitated our expansion beyond the kitchen into nearly every area of the home. Additionally, by embracing new technologies and customer-engagement strategies as they emerge, we are able to continually refine our best-in-class approach to multi-channel retailing.

Today, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is one of the United States’ largest e-commerce retailers with some of the best known and most beloved brands in home furnishings. Established in Australia in 2013, Williams-Sonoma Australia Pty Ltd. currently operates 20 retail locations and 4 e-commerce websites, and employs more than 350 people across corporate and retail operations.

Discover all you need for home from our four iconic brands: Pottery Barn Australia for timeless, exclusively designed furniture, decor and gifts; Pottery Barn Kids Australia for stylish, high-quality furniture and accessories for babies and kids; west elm Australia for modern home furnishings that are authentic, approachable, affordable and sustainably produced; and Williams Sonoma Australia for the finest cookware, food and entertaining essentials.

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