Jewelry/Visual Merch & Space Planning Mgr - Temp.

Maintain consistent, quality positioning and visual merchandise presentations that maximize space, profitability, retain presentation standards and support divisional strategies in all Fred Meyer Jewelers locations. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

• Model Customer 1st behavior; deliver and encourage other associates to deliver excellent customer service
• Develop and implement the standardized visual merchandising program to include corporate brand elements, packaging, plan-o-grams, category floor plans, window and case merchandise layout and propping, signage, pricing, labeling, etc.
• Train store associates to position their stores in a consistent manner; develop and maintain visual merchandising standards, communications, and training program for stores; develop space planning standards and strategy
• Develop and produce decorative and merchandise props for all promotional periods; work with Marketing department on promotional themes and concepts to create promotional strategies for upcoming campaigns and in-case signage
• Develop allocations of styles and groupings to create formalized plan; translate assortment plans into effective presentation and schematic plan-o-gram for use at store level
• Assist with setting up the initial case and window layout of merchandise and all visual elements for store locations, as well as on-going assistance
• Gather and disseminate intelligence on competition visual merchandising
• Manage Vendor relationship for store and project based element ordering (i.e., visual store online, store requests through visual mailbox, project status report organization and working with buyers)
• Streamline brand elements and program inventory with vendors and store facing ordering systems
• Responsible for project management, communication, and budget management for Visual projects including work with multiple departments 
• Maintaining visual merchandising standards and communications, provide guidance to stores for execution of updates
• Partner with Senior Planner on space planning initiative, helping create store level specific planograms
• Assist with setting up the initial case and window layout of merchandise and all visual elements for store locations, as well as on-going assistance
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum

• Bachelor's Degree in visual communications, marketing, merchandising, or related discipline
• 5+ years of experience in a visual merchandising or space planning for a specialty retailer, 1 year fine jewelry experience or 3 years of experience in other specialty retail; or combination of relevant education and experience
• Familiarity with marketing/advertising strategies
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficient with Macintosh applications, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Suite, Microsoft  Suite, and CAD
• Familiarity with industry/technical terms and processes
• Familiarity with publication plan-o-gram creation 

Desired

• Any experience directing and participating on project teams