Mockshop Designer

The Foschini Group is currently looking for a Mockshop Designer. Mockshop Designers are professionals who use digital tools to create virtual representations of retail spaces, focusing on visual merchandising and planogram development. They help the business visualize their store layouts, optimize product placement, and create clear guidelines for executing in-store strategies. This allows for more efficient planning, reducing costs, and improved in-store execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage / collaborate the Project Brief with relevant Buyers / Planners / Mockshop Team
• Create the Project Job Bag and initiate the Timeline Process / and Process Tracker
• Advise stakeholders and maintain project status and risk areas pertaining to “On Time” delivery
• Analyze the Buy Plan Data and create the requisite “Range” of products and items to be used in each project / Event Correcting of images for optimal display.
• Sizing, deep etching, resolution and formatting
• Determine & add image attributes not maintained in Buy Plan e.g. garment dimensions, colour correction
• Create image facing and folding options based on product store position.
• Collate & categorize images for optimal end-user experience, analysis and reports / storyboards
• Upload store plans (extracted from GSD) and maintain database for future usage
• As a Mockshop Designer you are responsible for:
• Creating 3D Store Mockups
• Developing Planograms
• Visual Merchandising
• Generating Merchandising Guidelines
• Analyzing Product Data
• Visualizing Product Ranges
• Testing and Refining Thoughts

Qualifications and Experience:

• A Diploma in Interior Design will be advantageous
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years of experience in VM (Visual Merchandising) retail
• All forms of Computer Aided Design / IT Software experience will be advantageous, i.e. InDesign, Photoshop, CAD, MS PowerPoint, Sketch Up, MS Excel, Buy Plan and Mockshop Graphic / Textile Design
• CAD Fashion experience will be advantageous

Skills:

• Strong Design and technical skills
• Communicate with Merchants to ensure all back-end data is submitted in time for store setup and review
• Seasonal research of merchandising standards set by local and international retailers, with special focus on competitor brands
• Stakeholder Management
• Ability to meet deadlines

Behaviours:

• Business Insight - applies market and business insights in order to drive organisational objectives
• Communicates Effectively - conveys information and communicates ideas in a clear, concise and impactful manner
• Customer Focus - understands, anticipates, and meets the needs and expectations of customers
• Decision Quality - consistently makes timely, well-rounded and informed decisions
• Manages Complexity - interprets and simplifies complex and contradictory information when resolving organisational problems
• Optimizes Work Processes - assesses and improves the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of various work processes
• Tech Savvy - leverages new technology to enhance productivity, improve problem solving, and support business growth

Preference will be given, but not limited to, candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.