Visual Merchandising Specialist

Company Description

**Discover your next career adventure with Dans**

With over 260 stores and 6500+ team members we’re on a mission to share our passion for good wine and great times. We welcome people in. That includes you. If you’re someone with a passion for drinks and a thirst for knowledge, there’s always something ahead for you here.

**Job Description**:

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Bring your passion and feel the energy**:

- ** 12 Month Fixed Term opportunity (Parental Leave cover).**

As the **Visual Merchandising Specialist **for Australia’s most iconic drinks retailer, you help ensure Dan Murphy’s is the preferred brand for all drinking experiences and help our customers discover a world of new and exciting drinks.

You will be integral to elevating the in store experience and the visual representation of all value and discovery campaigns.

You must be a creative thinker with a keen eye for detail, as well as having extensive experience in end to end visual merchandising principles and production.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

- Lead all Brand & Value campaigns (Tier A & B) by developing and executing inspiring best-in-class in-store experiences through visual merchandising, window displays, propping and product displays that ultimately drive increased footfall and sales.
- Build strong partnerships with Operations team, T&C, State/ Store Managers and VM champs to coach, incentivise and help successfully execute high quality and VM compliant campaigns including creation of mock shop, team roadshows, internal communications, store audits/ walk throughs & VM incentives.
- Lead the evaluation of each campaign, partnering with the Marketing Effectiveness team to ensure learnings are identified for future campaigns and optimisations are made. Continuously leverage data & insights to drive customer-first solutions and ensure campaign planning is always optimised.
- Lead external creative agencies and suppliers from brief to execution for in store campaign activations; ensuring all is delivered to brief, on time and to budget.
- Provide event team support and guidance to ensure the styling of events is per VM standards and playbook.
- Drive improvement in our VM standards across all stores, working cross functionally across the business.
- Forge collaborative working relationships with key departments; including broader Marketing, Operations, State/Store Managers and Merchandiser team.
- Lead budgets for in store campaign costs; including frequent tenders across suppliers to ensure cost effectiveness.
- Champion brand wide sustainability efforts through appropriate in store activations.
- Manage all store queries through ‘ZenDesk’ platform that are relevant to campaign activation.
- Shop the competition and research trends to ensure that Dan Murphy’s is the destination for visual impact.
- Role model the Dan Murphy’s Values and Ways of Working.
- Work flexibly and work cross functionally with the broader marketing team to support execution of initiatives outside your core role, when required.

**Qualifications**:
Now let’s talk about you:

- Minimum 5 years experience in retail marketing and Visual Merchandising.
- End to end production management.
- Retail Project Management (stakeholder management).
- Tertiary qualifications in business and/or marketing preferred.
- Proficient in entire Adobe Creative Suite and Google Sheets.
- Knowledgeable and confident in the world of Liquor.

**The benefits are good too**
- We offer flexible working in every sense
- An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
- Monthly meeting-free days
- Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.
- At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply._

Additional Information

**We are together creators**

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

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