Wayfair is hiring: Visual Merchandising lead in Hanover

Be among the first 25 applicants for the full‑time Visual Merchandising Lead position in Hanover, Maryland. The starting flat rate for this role is $21.50 per hour, with room to grow over time.

Hours: 40 hours per week. Store hours are Monday – Saturday: 10 am – 8 pm; Sunday: 11 am – 7 pm.

Benefits

• Growth opportunities (Conversions, Promotions, and more!)
• Health benefits start day one
• Wayfair company discount
• 401(k) with company match
• Referral bonuses

What you’ll do

• Define, design and implement a flexible visual merchandising strategy that can adapt to the wide variety of product that arrives in the outlet.
• Manage product flow within the outlet, maximizing product/sqft.
• Lead and create a best‑in‑class customer experience as the brand ambassador for Wayfair.
• Master our brand story and communicate it with polished communication, personal appearance and professionalism.
• Work to amplify the Wayfair brand family as an integral part of a high performing, customer‑centric team.
• Deliver on sales and service KPIs, productivity standards, and drive profitability goals across all omni‑channel platforms with best‑in‑class selling standards.
• Maintain leadership presence through effective floor management and resource allocation.
• Manage and monitor stock levels, merchandise adjacencies, presentations, signing, and assortment in all departments to ensure the sales‑floor is adequately stocked.
• Maintain visual standards required by Wayfair and Tanger Outlets.
• Ensure the store meets visual, replenishment, cleanliness, safety and back‑of‑house standards during floor leadership shifts.
• Perform opening and closing routines and provide supervision to ensure the store is meeting financial goals and associates are providing best in class service to our customers.
• Participate in operational store activities as needed: bringing new products to the floor, floor sets, replenishment, substitutions and general store upkeep.
• Engage in a high energy and dynamic work environment where there can be rapid changes in products, promotions, offerings and operations.
• Live by, emulate, and guide by our People Principles every day.
• As Keyholder, you are responsible for opening and closing the store.

What you’ll need

• Retail experience in visual merchandising or education in visual merchandising / interior design.
• 2+ years of leadership or experience managing a team.
• Brick & mortar retail experience – furniture or home goods preferred.
• Prior visual merchandising experience in outlet or off‑price retail environments preferred.
• Track record of thriving in a fast‑paced and changing environment.

Essential Functions

• Strong organization, self‑motivation, communication and relationship management skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Excellent sales and customer service skills.
• Technical acumen to learn necessary software including operating our POS system; experience with Google Cloud G Suite, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and forms preferred.
• Ability to process information and merchandise through a computer system and POS register system.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; regularly climb or balance; and frequently stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly, frequently or occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Working Hours At Wayfair and our family of brands, we strive to provide our employees with a work schedule that protects their work/life balance and takes their scheduling preferences into consideration. Please understand due to the nature of the retail industry, your shift schedule will vary. However, we will work to provide you with your schedule a minimum of 2 weeks in advance, and you will have the opportunity to trade with teammates as needed. Our store hours are Monday – Saturday: 10 am – 8 pm & Sunday 11 am – 7 pm. Employee shifts may include two hours before or after store hours. Employment/promotion to this role will be contingent on successful completion of a background check.

Assistance For Individuals With Disabilities Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.