Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

Academy Sports + Outdoors Specialist Visual Merchandising Creative in Katy, Texas

Come work at a place where we take pride in creating a workplace environment that values hard work, commitment, and growth .

Job Description:

Education:

  • Associate’s degree in relevant field of study or equivalent years of related work experience required

Work Experiences:

  • 2+ years of related work experience required

Skills:

  • Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite

  • Maintains elevated working knowledge Adobe Creative Suite

  • Exceptional analytical and problems solving skills

  • Strong Presentation skills - must excel at communicating complex information in simple to understand yet actionable ways

  • Strong interpersonal, written, verbal communication with the ability to interface effectively with individuals at various levels within the organization

  • Project Management - establishing key milestones & focusing on deliverables, following up with key stakeholders and delivering on time/on budget

  • Strong attention to detail and sound problem-solving skills for technical and business issues

  • Ability to prioritize and manage a large volume of work across multiple projects in a fast paced frequently changing environment

  • Ability to produce high quality work that is very detailed, accurate and completed on schedule

  • Responds positively to change, by embracing and adopting new direction and process changes required to accomplish goals and solve problems

Responsibilities:

  • Direct all aspects of visual merchandising creative execution, including signage creation, fixture-graphic fulfillment, and reset coordination

  • Partners on the implementation of new innovative fixture initiatives and serve as the visual merchandising strategy expert

  • Partner with the Merchants to create customer centric signage programs that improve brand recognition, perceived value and customer experience.

  • Work directly with stores and address store level challenges and establish strong relationships with key customer within their store operations and merchant groups

  • Accountable for ensuring department level signage is upheld to the Academy Sports + Outdoors brand standards and that operational feasibility and an elevated customer experience is delivered.

  • Leads the category strategy, development and execution of department initiatives by assessing the effectiveness of current marketing elements and make data-driven recommendations to modify annual plans and integrated programs.

  • Develop in-store signage and programs to support various departments initiatives. Create timeline for the execution and creation of the marketing materials and partner with visual merchandising, merchant and leadership on approval and on-time in-store delivery of the materials.

  • Leads the end to end print production process for in-store department and category facing signage projects.

  • Creates detailed signage placement guides and layouts for stores including adaption by store type if necessary.

  • Leads in the execution of key seasonal and store wide campaigns and initiatives through Visual Merchandising programs, techniques, elements and signage.

  • Tracks sales/margin and customer traffic data for departmental moves to verify ROI on visual initiatives.

  • Duties may change; team member may be required to perform other duties as assigned

Physical Requirements & Attendance

  • Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties

  • Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures and rules governing professional staff behavior

  • Regular attendance required

  • Ability to work flexible hours such as evening, weekends, and holidays as necessary

  • Up to 5% travel, overnight stays as required

Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate with regard to employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law. ​

Academy® Sports + Outdoors is one of the nation’s largest sporting goods and outdoor retailers. It’s no surprise that we not only know how to create experiences for our customers, but for our team members as well. Understanding our people and the things that matter to them the most has been at the core of the Academy® culture for over 80 years. With more than 22,000 team members, we take pride in creating a workplace environment that values hard work, commitment, and growth.

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