Visual Merchandiser

Visual Merchandiser

Poundland & Dealz – Visual Merchandiser role.

Location: Walsall, England, United Kingdom

Salary: Up to £27,000 + Benefits

Contract Type: Full Time

Working Pattern: Permanent

Hours: 40.0

Our stores are one of our most valuable assets and our Visual Merchandising department plays a pivotal role in optimizing the performance of each bay within a store. The Visual Merchandising department sits within our Commercial team and reports to the Micro Space Manager. The role of a Visual Merchandiser is to build and maintain visual merchandising planograms that optimise space performance and consumer offer 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.

• 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.
• Family‑friendly benefits:
  Our comprehensive benefits are designed to support you and your family’s needs.
• My Staff Shop:
  Gain exclusive discounts through our “My Staff Shop” portal.
• Life assurance cover:
  Enjoy peace of mind with our life assurance cover.
• 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. Celebrating birthdays with an extra day’s holiday.
• 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 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.
• Excellen…