Visual Assistant Jobs in Irvine, CA (NOW HIRING)

About the company

Ardmore Home Design (AHD), founded in 2008, is a privately owned, fast-paced, founder-led entrepreneurial company where we value people with strong skills to make our products and processes better every day. We design, sell, and distribute luxury home décor globally to interior designers and boutique/luxury retailers. The AHD family of wholesale brands includes Made Goods (flagship furniture made from unique materials), Pigeon & Poodle (home and bath accessories), Blue Pheasant (handcrafted tabletop products) and Burton James (seating home furnishing).

About the Role

The Visual Merchandiser plays a key role within our Visual team and is responsible for executing and maintaining visual standards and corporate direction relating to brand presentation for showrooms and tradeshows. A background in the home furnishings industry, with a strong emphasis on merchandising and managing the setup of tradeshows and/or showrooms is beneficial. The ability to travel to tradeshows and company showrooms for up to 40-50% of the year is required. This individual embraces and supports our in-person/on-site work culture and embodies our company values of Ownership, Collaboration and Respect.

What you can do for us:

· Maintain, analyze, and adjust seasonal floor plans for showrooms in designated market/s

· Layout multiple product SKUs prior to tradeshow or showroom setup; execute a visual layout based on available SKUs and SKUs arriving in tradeshow or showroom

· Analyze product sales in order to feature best-selling products; able to strategically analyze sales information to determine which products to add or remove from showroom/tradeshow inventory

· Partner with Visual Merchandising Manager and Visual Construction Manager to recognize and address brand presentation in designated markets

· Contribute and design new merchandising strategies with a brand specific focus

· Develop and source displays and fixtures when applicable

· Assist to manage/coordinator labor and freight for showrooms & tradeshows related to visual presentation

· Work with visual team to order graphics, logos or other collateral as necessary

· Ability to size logos, photos, interface with printers or outside graphics companies

Assist with occasional operational tasks as related to tradeshow and showroom setup such as barcoding and tagging product displays

What we can do for you:

· Play a pivotal role in our company’s transformation and growth

· Maintain work/life balance with day shift work schedules and no weekends, in a wholesale distribution business (no manufacturing)

· Align with a growing company that operates in the luxury market

· Provide training and career development opportunities

· Offer 3 weeks paid time off and 6 paid holidays per service year

· Enjoy a high-paced and collaborative work environment

· Receive up to 6% 401k employer contributions

· Take advantage of paid time off away from work, including scheduled company holidays.

· Participate in competitive benefits and incentivizing programs

· Minimum of an Associates degree in Design or other related major

· Minimum of 2+ years of tradeshow and/or showroom visual merchandising experience

· Experience working for a luxury brand in home furnishings

· Strong working knowledge of SketchUp and Adobe Suite is a plus

· Pro-active; able to figure things out with little direction

· Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills

· Able to multi-task and make decisions quickly

· Works effectively in high pressure situations; will do what it takes to get the job done with a positive and mature attitude

· Ability to think ahead and anticipate future needs without being told by upper management

· Sophisticated problem solving skills; able to make split decisions with little information on hand

· Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to interact professionally and effectively with all levels of management and staff

· Able to manage vendors and resources

· Ability to travel 50-60% of the time

· Must exhibit good communication and influencing skills to work across all levels of the organization

· Passionate, highly motivated individual who is a self-starter

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that are required by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

· While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; as well as reach with hands and arms.

· The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

· Ability to work in open environment with fluctuating temperatures and standard lighting.

· Ability to work on computer and mobile phone for multiple hours; with frequent interruptions.

· Required to use stairwells to attend meetings and engage with employees on multiple floors throughout building.

Other Considerations:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the role.

Compensation

Starting annual salary: $70,000. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.