Visual Merchandising Manager

**Your Work Matters** The Visual Merchandising Manager is responsible for the conceptualization, development, communication and implementation of the comprehensive visual merchandising components and standards of Floor & Decor (F&D) stores. The Visual Merchandising Manager is also responsible for presenting Floor & Decor in a way that is unified, consistent, and inspiring, while delivering timing and financial goals for the specific project, business, and/or space. The positon requires the ability to drive cross-functional engagements and partnerships to ensure a 360-degree approach to all visual merchandising initiatives, collaboration with the NSVM Project Management team for fixture compatibility, Merchant/Buying team for visioning of product marketing, Creative/Marketing team for branding consistency and signage creation, as well as the Operations/Safety team to ensure the execution and safety standards are met. **Your Day Consists Of** - Leading new visual merchandising development ensuring both creative and operational visual processes are met, from conception to implementation. This includes the following: the development of visual merchandising floor sets, the coordination of prototype reviews with key stakeholders, ensuring planograms and adjacency flows align with the overall vision, and standards to ensure a cohesive merchandise presentation that drives sales. - Partnering with Store Planning, Project Managers NSVM, and Construction on the layout and function of new stores, remodels, and category initiatives, fixture packages, and applicable department updates to elevate the store experience. - Understanding strategic merchandising initiatives for each Merchant/Buyer and developing visual concepts for each. - Partnering with the Regional Merchandising Teams, Store CEMs, Project Managers, and field team for NSVM to ensure high-quality execution of visual ideas through providing vision and tools, creating communications (Internal Communication), training content, and performing audits. - Supporting the Senior Director, NSVM for Senior Leadership alignment walk-throughs. - Being responsible for working through the Regional Merchandising group to teach and train the stores on the execution of the VSG by providing feedback and best practices on store walks, as well as participating in Regional trainings when needed. - Determining new ways to create strategic Visual Merchandising solutions that will help inspire customers and draw them into specific key categories in our stores. - Working strategically with cross-functional teams (Merchants/Buyers, Store Planning and Allocation, Creative/Marketing, Store Operations, the Field, and Vendor Community) to develop standards for in-store presentations that are grounded in customer insights. - Partnering with the Store Project Budget & Planning Manager to ensure financial objectives are being met by forecasting requirements, preparing budgets, scheduling expenditures, and analyzing variances. - Properly tracking personal expenses and coding appropriately, on time, and within SOP guidelines. - Managing invoices (coding) as needed and tracking compliance to budget for all existing store projects responsible for. - Developing budgets, tracking actual spend, and communicating to the Store Project Budget & Planning Manager. - Supporting the Senior Director, NSVM for Senior Leadership alignment walk-throughs. - Developing and managing prototypes and the review process, including fixture documentation for the purpose of cataloging all components. - Leading visual presentation innovation and re-invent/refresh projects. - Being responsible for keeping the Visual Standards Guide up to date and available for store access to reference through collaboration with the Merchant/Buyer group, Operations/Safety, Merch Ops, NSVM, Creative, and PRO Team. - Documenting walks, meetings, and updates that are then communicated back to the Senior Director, New Stores & Visual Merchandising, to ensure al…