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Visual Merchandisers and Related Occupations

Visual merchandisers develop, deliver and communicate visual concepts and strategies to promote brands, products and services in-store, in catalogues or online, and create displays of merchandise.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£8,804
£21,294
£43,064

New workers start around £8,804. Normal pay is £21,294 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £43,064.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 9,655 vacancies for this type of job

2.57%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Provides feedback about displays to managers and designers.

  • Prepares an area for new display, constructs or assembles displays from a variety of materials, and dismantles existing displays and returns merchandise to relevant departments.

  • Implements plans from display designers or display managers or develops ideas and plans for merchandise display or window dressing.

  • Consults with advertising and sales staff and advises retailers on the optimal display of a product and of any promotions.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Visual Merchandising

  • Merchandising

  • Selling Techniques

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Point Of Sale

  • Planogram

  • Brand Identity

  • Product Knowledge

  • Marketing

  • Product Layout

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Sales

  • Communication

  • Detail Oriented

  • Management

  • Customer Service

  • Planning

  • Time Management

  • Prioritization

  • Coaching

  • Microsoft Excel

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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