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, including 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 readiness.

Your Future Salary & Benefits:

The starting rate for this position will be based on experience, expertise, and responsibilities. Other benefits for this role include:

• Paid Time Off 
• Health Insurance 
• Dental Insurance 
• Vision Insurance 
• 401K with company match 
• Store Discount 
• Training & Educational Opportunities 
• Career Advancement 

The Ideal Candidate:
The ideal candidate is a strong visual merchandiser and retail presentation thinker who understands that great displays are not just pretty — they help customers shop, understand, imagine, and buy. She or he is creative, organized, collaborative, and practical, with the ability to turn product priorities, promotions, signage, customer flow, and seasonal stories into store presentations that are inspiring and executable.

The ideal candidate understands that live goods are central to Moana Nursery’s customer experience and that non-live goods should help support, enhance, and attach to those presentations.

If you are looking for a career and not just a job this position might be right for you. There is plenty of opportunity to grow your career at Moana Nursery, and this position is a great way to help shape how our customers experience our stores.

About Moana Nursery:

Moana Nursery is a vertically integrated, family-owned company specializing in growing, selling, installing and maintaining top quality, High Desert products and services that beautify and enhance our communities. Established in 1967, we are northern Nevada's premier garden center nurseries and landscape services supported by Oregon's best "Hardy Plant" wholesale nursery.

We are recognized both regionally and nationally as an industry leader, community member and a consumer favorite. We are committed to continued education and community involvement. If you want a career not a job and want to grow as a person we might be the right fit for you.

Requirements

  Expertise & Experience Requirements:

• Previous retail experience 
• Strong visual merchandising, retail presentation, product merchandising, decorating, design, or store environment experience      
• Ability to create compelling displays and product  presentations that support sales, customer experience, and average ticket      growth 
• Ability to turn promotions, seasonal themes, product priorities, and customer needs into clear store execution direction 
• Strong understanding of customer flow, product visibility, signage placement, display balance, color, scale, and visual      storytelling 
• Ability to execute visual merchandising guides, photo examples, and display direction that store teams can execute and maintain 
• Ability to work collaboratively with Visual Merchandising Manager, Store Managers, Marketing and Buyers/Merchants
• Ability to review sales performance, promotional results, and GMROI opportunities with the Merchants and Visual      Merchandising Manager
• Strong organizational skills
• Valid driver’s license 

Physical Requirements & Activity:

• Applicant must be able to lift 40 lbs. 
• Applicant must be able to stand, walk, bend, reach, and move throughout the stores for extended periods of time 
• Applicant must be able to work indoors and outdoors in a retail nursery environment 
• Applicant must be able to safely move light fixtures, signs, props, display materials, plants, pottery, gift items, and other      retail products as needed 
• Applicant must be willing to travel between Moana Nursery’s three retail locations 
• Applicant must be able to work occasional weekends, early mornings, or after normal business hours for major seasonal      changeouts, promotional launches, and important retail presentation needs 

 Nice To Have Skills or Experiences:

• Plant knowledge and garden center experience 
• Experience in garden center, nursery, home décor, floral, seasonal retail, lifestyle retail, or specialty retail merchandising 
• Experience supporting promotional campaigns or seasonal retail changeouts 
• Experience with signage coordination, retail audits, or store presentation standards 
• Experience creating or working with planograms or merchandising layout maps 
• Experience using sales data to guide merchandising decisions 
• Creative background in design, styling, art, retail presentation, or visual communication