Join the Ravenna Gardens Team!
Ravenna Gardens, located in Seattle's University Village, has been procuring quality plants to delight customers for over 20 years. Join our friendly and people-oriented team.
Specific job openings will be posted below. In the absence of a specific opening, we are always happy to receive your resume and keep it on file for the next employment opportunity.
_______________________________________________________________________ Posted 7-24-24
Visual Merchandising & Creative Lead
Are you a creative & energetic leader interested in planning and building interior store displays that inspire, delight & educate customers? Do you enjoy driving sales through creative & effective merchandising? If you have strong organization skills, pay great attention to detail and hold yourself to a high standard of creating visual excellence, we may just have the position you're looking for.
Responsibilities:
At University Village Store:
- Plan and create all interior store displays
- Maintain high visual standards in a way that supports Ravenna Gardens brand
- Planning and implementing regular display changes to highlight new products, changing seasons and keeping the look fresh
- Daily restocking and maintaining of optimal product levels for all products, both regular and seasonal
- Tracking weekly sales in order to create product restocking lists for weekly deliveries from warehouse
- Analyzing sales over time to determine appropriate space allocation for product categories to maximize dollars per square foot
- Identifying inventory needs and communicating with buyer regarding reorders of bestselling products to avoid stock-outs
- Planning & leading the installation of the Ravenna Gardens sales space at the annual Northwest Flower and Garden Festival
- Working with store management to coordinate merchandising needs alongside general store operations for smooth implementation of major visual changes
- Train store staff to support the overall merchandising plan
- Create in-store product signage to inform and entice customers
- Acquire and retain an extensive knowledge of all products, product categories and inventory levels
At our Georgetown based warehouse:
- Work with warehouse team to jointly select product to be delivered to the store each week
- Safely pack and unpack product from warehouse to store and vice versa with optimal efficiency
- Acquire knowledge of warehouse organization methods to support easy and efficient product picking along with regularly familiarizing yourself with current inventory and new inventory
Qualifications:
- Minimum 1-year visual merchandising experience
- Highly creative and imaginative
- Possess clear and concise communication skills
- Ability to balance creative capability with organization and time management skills
- Ability to work independently as well as with others
- Willingness to work M-F, outside of store hours, starting at 4am on merchandising days
- Sales experience
- Detail oriented and organized
- Ability to effectively balance priorities and carry them out efficiently & neatly
- Possess situational awareness to minimize impact of merchandising operations on the ambiance of the store during business hours
- Create and constantly maintain ADA approved isle widths, adjusting merchandise as need to accommodate wheelchairs and strollers
- Ability to regularly lift up to 50lbs
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $28.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Paid time off
Schedule:
Experience:
- Visual Merchandising: 1 year (Required)
Language:
Ability to Commute:
- Seattle, WA 98105 (Required)
- Georgetown WA 98108 (Required)
Please email resumes to: ravennagardens@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you!