Junior Area Visual Merchandiser

Founded over 20 years ago by three entrepreneurial women with a passion for beautiful, practical and comfortable homes, OKA is more than a furniture and homeware retailer: it is a love affair with living well. We inspire people to confidently create a home that reflects their personality, a space where nothing should be too precious or perfect to be enjoyed with family and friends.

British-born, today we have 13 stores across the UK– an established Interior Design and Trade business, a mail-order service and thriving website. We are looking to recruit an experienced full time Junior Area Visual Merchandiser to join our growing field based visual merchandising team , based in the southwest region or our London store .

• Ensuring brand visual merchandising (VM) standards are of a consistently high standard.
• Recreating room-sets/displays/windows seasonal changes following guidelines; organise own adequate supplies of stock, props, materials, equipment and tools for all planned work.
• They will be required to carry out all duties consistent with the visual merchandising of Oka homeware products in their own stores in the Southwest area.
• Working across functions and key stakeholders to plan effective product range moves within stores with a constant commercial mindset using related analysis tools.
• The role requires manual handling of large furniture and regular changes of all product ranges.
• The role will require painting and decorating, and small DIY projects.
• Assisting on new store openings and refits nationally and assisting within other regions when required.
• Constant evaluation of the market and competitors.

• 1 + years’ experience in visual merchandising, preferably within the interiors sector.
• Experience in retail interior styling is advantageous.
• Design and/or interiors qualification desirable.
• A creative individual who can provide portfolio examples to illustrate previous successes.
• Good eye for display and design.
• Very good DIY skills (painting, decorating, using power tools to install mirrors, wall art, curtains, etc.) and able to lift heavy furniture.
• Experience working with and building relationships with a team of Store Managers.
• Commercial understanding of the power of VM and its ability to influence product and brand performance.
• Project management skills including the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
• Confident in independent decision‑making, troubleshooting and problem‑solving.
• Fully competent with all Microsoft packages.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal; adept at promoting and explaining ideas to all levels of the business and influencing stakeholders, in order to achieve timely project completion.
• Able to work independently on projects with line manager support.
• Positive and flexible working attitude.
• Full, clean driving licence.
• Flexible approach to UK wide travel, including overnight stays.
• Passion for the OKA brand.