Retail NVQ Level 3 (Visual Merchandising Pathway)

Retail Level 3 qualification is achieved by assessing the candidate in the workplace and covers the retail sector in more depth. Retail Level 3 has three main routes and one of the following must be chosen for the candidate to follow:

1. Sales Professional
2. Visual Merchandising
3. Management

Ideally the candidate should be an experienced member of staff within an organisation and be able to organise their colleagues to achieve tasks and evaluate their progress as well as providing training and development and looking at their own learning needs.

Visual Merchandising Pathway

To achieve a full certificate in Retail at Level 3 you are required to complete a total of six units as outlined below:

Mandatory unit (learners must complete Unit 1):

Unit 1 Work effectively in your retail organisation

Optional units:

Learners must achieve a further five units and at least four of these must be chosen from the following units at Level 3:

Stock Management

Unit 6 Organise the receipt and storage of goods in a retail environment

Visual Merchandising

• Unit 22 choose merchandise to feature in visual merchandising displays
• Unit 23 Plan, monitor and control how graphics are used in visual merchandising displays
• Monitor the effect of visual merchandising displays and layouts
• Allocate, monitor and control visual merchandising project resources against budgets
• Contribute to developing and putting into practice the company’s visual merchandising policy
• Create plans, elevations and drawings to realise visual merchandising ideas

Management and Leadership

• Unit 12 Help to manage a retail team
• Unit 28 Contribute to the continuous improvement of retail operation

A maximum of one unit can be chosen from the following units at Level 2 (provided on CD)

Visual Merchandising

• Unit 25 Follow guidelines for planning and preparing visual merchandising displays
• Unit 26 Follow guidelines for dressing visual merchandising displays
• Unit 27 Order graphic materials for visual merchandising displays
• Unit 28 Dismantle and store visual merchandising displays
• Unit 29 Make props for visual merchandising displays
• Unit 30 Put visual merchandising displays together