Visual Designer

Job Expectations & Duties

Typical duties include but are not limited to:

• 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.

Job Requirements

• 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.
• Ability to efficiently work independently under direct supervision.
• 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.

Education & Experience

Interior design degree or related field of education OR at least 2 years of visual merchandising/or similar experience preferred. 

Compensation

• Pay: Starting at $22 and up - Dependent on experience and education
  • Pay 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!

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 Show Floor Visual Designer position requires lifting, bending, kneeling, stooping, and moving display props and accessories.

Work Environment

• 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  

American Furniture Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. Working Safely is a Condition of Employment at American Furniture Warehouse – an Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V.

A pre-employment drug screen, background and fit for duty exam check must be passed upon job offer.

Since 1975, our motto has been Under Promise and Over Deliver and this is exactly what we do on a daily basis! At AFW, we strongly believe in recognizing those who exemplify excellence, and reward them for contributing to our collective success. We strive to provide a great work environment for our employees and give them the knowledge and tools needed to provide our customers with an even greater buying experience. At American Furniture Warehouse We Do It Right the First Time!