Manager, Visual Merchandising

About the Role

1915 South owns and operates 30 Ashley stores and 3 distribution centers across the southeast, including locations in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Virginia. The Visual Manager executes and scales the company's visual merchandising strategy across assigned store locations, with a strong focus on supporting the selling process and driving sales. Partnering closely with the Senior Director of Visual Merchandising, this role ensures visual strategies are implemented consistently and in alignment with merchandising priorities. This leader balances hands-on execution with leadership influence, ensuring layouts, galleries, and product placement elevate the guest experience while reinforcing selling strategies, product priorities, and guest flow.

Responsibilities

• Lead CAD planning and showroom layouts for assigned stores, ensuring layouts support product priorities, customer flow, and selling effectiveness
• Personally execute visual plans in assigned stores while also CAD planning and guiding execution for additional stores led by other Visual Associates
• Ensure visual execution directly supports the selling process, enabling sales teams to tell product stories and close sales
• Partner closely with store sales leadership to align visual changes with selling strategies, key product focuses, and traffic patterns
• Execute visual strategies and standards developed by the Senior Director of Visual Merchandising with consistency and attention to detail
• Provide direction, coaching, and feedback to Visual Associates to ensure brand-right, sales-driven execution
• Support rollout of new assortments, seasonal transitions, floor sets, and merchandising initiatives
• Monitor execution quality across assigned locations using structured review processes and digital tools
• Analyze product and store-level performance with Merchandising to inform layout adjustments and product recommendations that drive sales and improve showroom productivity
• Communicate execution insights, challenges, and opportunities back to Visual and Merchandising leadership, adjusting layouts based on sales performance and customer behavior

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Visual Merchandising, Interior Design, Retail, or related field, required. Equivalent relevant experience accepted in lieu of a degree
• 2-4 years of visual merchandising experience, required, ideally in a multi-store retail environment
• Ability to safely lift, move, and position furniture and fixtures
• Ability to stand for extended periods of time
• Travel up to 50% of time
• Work environment: Retail Floor/Office
• Schedule: Weekdays; Weekends, as needed

Benefits

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus and long-term incentive (LTIP) eligibility
• Comprehensive benefits package for you and your family, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
• College tuition support through Thomas University
• Generous employee discounts on furniture
• Long-term career advancement opportunities with a strong promote-from-within culture