Visual Merchandising Lead

Description

Visual Merchandising Lead

Reno / Sparks, NV

Description

Your Future Role:

Visual merchandising is one of the most important tools Moana Nursery uses to turn retail strategy into customer action. When done well, it helps customers understand what to buy, how products work together, why now is the right time, and how Moana can help them succeed.

As the Visual Merchandising Lead, you will create the visual merchandising displays for the Moana Lane store. You will partner with the Visual Merchandising Manager and Store Teams to execute visual direction, standards, promotional displays, signage coordination, and seasonal merchandising execution. This position supports retail sales goals, average ticket growth, compelling promotions, customer inspiration, and store ambiance by translating product priorities, seasonal opportunities, marketing campaigns, and customer needs into clear, shoppable, safe, and inspiring store presentations.

This role is expected to personally build and maintain the store displays. Success depends on creating merchandising systems that can be executed with consistency, ownership, and appropriate creative freedom.

This position includes total-store merchandising, with live goods and non-live goods, with special emphasis on live goods because plants are central to Moana Nursery’s customer promise, seasonal identity, and retail experience.

Your Specific

Job Responsibilities:

• Upholds Moana Nursery’s strict safety policies
• Creates visual merchandising displays across all areas of the Moana Lane store
• Executes in partnership with the Visual Merchandising Manager promotional displays for promotional categories
• Executes seasonal merchandising merchandising for major changeouts, including Spring, Summer, Halloween, and Christmas
• Works closely with the Visual Merchandising Manager and Marketing to ensure promotions are supported with both effective signage and compelling in-store displays
• Executes store layout, customer flow, promotional feature areas, product adjacencies, and merchandising zones in collaboration with Store Managers and the Visual Merchandising Manager
• Works with the Merchants and Stores Management Teams to evaluate sales performance, promotional results, GMROI opportunities, seasonal priorities, traffic-driving items, and product categories that deserve visual support
• Recommends display-related needs such as fixtures, props, reusable materials, seasonal accent pieces, and build-out resources
• Assists Buyers/Merchants and Store Managers with merchandising ideas that help move stagnant or slow-selling inventory
• Helps create customer-facing retail-tainment moments such as seasonal displays, photo-op areas, launch weekend presentations, holiday experiences, workshop-support displays, and memorable store moments
• Ensures merchandising direction supports safe, accessible, and easy-to-shop stores, including clear walkways, stable displays, ADA-friendly shopping paths, irrigation access, replenishment needs, cart movement, and store operations
• Executes a shared merchandising calendar that connects promotions, seasonal changeouts, signage deadlines, execution timelines, audits, coaching follow-up, and post-promotion review

Your Future

Work Schedule:

This is a full-time, year-round position. The regular schedule will generally be Monday through Friday. However, Moana Nursery’s retail stores are open 7 days per week, and this position requires flexibility during major seasonal changeouts, promotional launches, signage audits, retail-tainment setups, and peak retail periods.

Some work may occur on weekends, early mornings, or after normal business hours when needed to support store execution, customer-facing experiences, signage placement, display setup, coaching, or launch…