Manager - Visual Merchandiser
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
Position objective:
Coordinate with brand principals, buyers, sales promotion, marketing, procurement, and retail operations to develop compelling visual merchandising strategies.Development, refinement and execution of display and flow guides and make sure appropriate processes are in place to ensure these areas meet their productivity and quality requirements.
Leading the design, creation, testing and rollout of strategic growth initiatives relating to format in stores.
Key responsibility:
- Develop visual merchandising strategies and brand standards for specific business units.
- Understand strategic merchandising initiatives for areas of accountability and develop visual concepts for each season and merchant initiative based on the visual merchandising roadmap.
- Partner with marketing and store operations to communicate and execute visual concepts for each season and merchant initiative based on visual merchandise roadmap.
- Partner with field visual merchandising leadership to ensure consistent high quality execution of visual ideas through providing vision and tools, creating communications and training content, and performing audits.
- Lead visual presentation on innovation and re-invent projects.
- Create user-friendly VM guidelines format for store execution, based on the product assortment/space.
- Develop specific store and departmental space allocations and adjacencies that maximize consumer appeal and contribute to sales objectives.
- Identify, recruit and develop talent for growth and advancement within the organization.
- Provide input to overall in-store branding and consumer experience, including the design and placement of fixtures, layouts and graphics/signage to drive sales and customer satisfaction.
- Partner in the development of new prototypes and concepts to address specific customer needs and opportunities.
- Provide input into the pace and scope of store remodel or renovation programs.
Desired experience:
The ideal manager - visual merchandiser in a retail company should have strong artistic and creative abilities to design visually appealing displays with understanding of the retail environment, customer experience and store layout. Previous experience in visual merchandising or a related field is preferred.
About the Company
The Apparel Group is a global fashion and lifestyle brand conglomerate residing on the crossroads of a modern economy - Dubai, UAE. The mercurial growth in the last 17 years has been by acquiring a host of world class fashion labels from around the world - Nine West, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole, Aldo & Tim Hortons just to name a few.
Today the group caters to thousands of eager shoppers through its over 1530 stores, 75 International brands and employing 12,000 multi cultural staff in over 4 continents. Apparel believes in turning dreams in to reality and we give everyone - our customers, our stakeholders, our employees - an equal opportunity to do so.
Apparel group has carved its strong presence not only in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia but opened thriving gateways to market in India, South Africa, Poland, Singapore, Jordan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Additionally, clear strategies are in place to enter emerging markets such as Hungary, Pakistan, Egypt and Philippines.
Apply Now