Dual-Site Assistant Visual Manager
Varley · New York, NY · 3 wk ago
On-sitePurchasingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: Role Overview (which is about the role), then Leadership Pillars (People Leadership & Team Development, Customer & Brand Experience, Visual Merchandising & Brand Execution, Product Performance & Commercial Ownership, Daily Operations & Floor Leadership, Dual-Store Leadership & Consistency, Collection Launches & Product Knowledge, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Scope of Role & Decision Ownership). That's responsibilities. Then Key Skills & Experience / The Ideal Candidate (skills/experience). Then What Success Looks Like (maybe outcomes). Then Our Values (maybe not needed). Also there is location info etc.
We need to map to sections: About the role (role overview). Responsibilities (the leadership pillars etc). Requirements (maybe minimum experience etc). Qualifications (maybe similar). Skills (key skills). Benefits, Pay, Schedule: not present. So we should not include those sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to extract content for each section.
Let's parse:
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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: Role Overview (which is about the role), then Leadership Pillars (People Leadership & Team Development, Customer & Brand Experience, Visual Merchandising & Brand Execution, Product Performance & Commercial Ownership, Daily Operations & Floor Leadership, Dual-Store Leadership & Consistency, Collection Launches & Product Knowledge, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Scope of Role & Decision Ownership). That's responsibilities. Then Key Skills & Experience / The Ideal Candidate (skills/experience). Then What Success Looks Like (maybe outcomes). Then Our Values (maybe not needed). Also there is location info etc.
We need to map to sections: About the role (role overview). Responsibilities (the leadership pillars etc). Requirements (maybe minimum experience etc). Qualifications (maybe similar). Skills (key skills). Benefits, Pay, Schedule: not present. So we should not include those sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to extract content for each section.
Let's parse:
About Varley Clothing intro: description of brand. Could be part of About the role? Usually About the role is about the position, not company. But we could include company description under About the role? The instruction: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can have About the role heading and include role overview and maybe company description? The role overview is about the role. The company description could be considered part of About the role or maybe not needed. But we need to preserve all substantive information; we could include company description under About the role as a paragraph.
Responsibilities: combine all leadership pillars etc. Could be a list of duties. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to convert responsibilities into list items.
Requirements: Minimum 3 years’ experience in retail leadership, ideally across operations and visual merchandising; maybe also other requirements like ability to manage priorities across two locations etc. Those are more skills. But we can treat requirements as the minimum experience and maybe "Ability to balance commercial, customer, visual, and operational priorities" etc. However those are also skills. We'll separate: Requirements: Minimum 3 years’ experience in retail leadership, ideally across operations and visual merchandising; Ability to manage priorities effectively across two store locations; Ability to build strong relationships and influence teams across both locations; Experience in a fast-paced, high-volume retail environment; Proficiency with POS, CRM systems, and retail reporting tools. Also maybe "Strong commercial awareness with the ability to link visuals to sales performance" etc. But that's skill.
Qualifications: maybe not distinct; could be same as requirements. But we can omit if no specific qualifications like degree etc. The posting doesn't mention education qualifications. So we may skip Qualifications section if no specific content.
Skills: list of skills: Strong commercial awareness, ability to analyse data, product performance, inventory; Strong leadership, coaching, communication skills; Highly organised with strong operational and prioritisation skills; Ability to manage priorities across two locations; Ability to build strong relationships and influence teams; Strong interest in fashion industry, focus on styling and brand storytelling; Experience in fast-paced high-volume retail; Proficiency with POS, CRM, retail reporting tools; Ability to balance commercial, customer, visual, operational priorities; Agile, adaptable, resilient.
We need to avoid duplication. We'll create sections with unique content.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
Thus final HTML:
About the role
... company description + role overview?
Then Responsibilities
- ... each responsibility bullet.
Then Requirements
- ...
Then Skills
- ...
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's extract details.
Company description: "About Varley Clothing Varley is a contemporary fashion brand for the modern woman. Founded in 2015 by husband-and-wife Lara and Ben Mead, we are an international, family-run business headquartered between London, Los Angeles, and New York. We create year-round collections designed to build an elevated wardrobe for how women live and move. From knitwear and outerwear to everyday staples and active pieces, our collections blend style, function, and versatility. Varley exists to instil quiet confidence through meaningful connections that enhance everything women already are. As women’s lives evolve, so do we. Our international family-run team is 85% female, making us proud to be a brand for women, by women. We are guided by two core beliefs: the pursuit of quality in everything we do and looking after one another."
Role Overview: "The Dual-Site Assistant Visual Manager (Dual-Site AVM) is a hands-on leader and brand ambassador working across our New York locations, currently SoHo and Madison Avenue, supporting both management teams in delivering commercial success while ensuring exceptional customer and team experiences. This role combines the responsibilities of an Assistant Store Manager with Visual Merchandising leadership, acting as a commercial leader across both stores and driving the execution of Varley’s visual strategy in a way that supports trade, enhances customer experience, and maximises sales. Highly floor-focused and operationally accountable, the Dual-Site AVM leads by example and ensures that visual merchandising never compromises customer service. They connect product, visual standards, operations, inventory, and commercial performance to identify opportunities and translate them into clear actions. Working across two locations, the Dual-Site AVM ensures consistency in Varley brand and visual standards while recognising the individual trading patterns, customer behaviours, product performance, and local needs of each store. The role partners closely with both Store Managers, the Visual Merchandising Manager (VMM), Retail Operations, and Stockroom (BOH) teams to ensure strong alignment between product, visual execution, customer experience, and store operations. The Dual-Site AVM takes ownership in the absence of the Store Manager when working within the respective location. This role includes key-holder responsibilities and requires regular presence across both assigned stores."
Leadership Pillars sections: each has bullet-like sentences. We'll convert each bullet into - .
People Leadership & Team Development: list items: "Lead from the shop floor, setting clear expectations and role clarity across FOH and BOH", "Inspire and motivate through fair, consistent, values-led leadership", "Foster a collaborative, accountable, and solution-focused culture", "Coach and develop teams across both locations through regular feedback and in-the-moment support", "Build strong working relationships with both Store Managers and their leadership teams", "Provide clear priorities during trading and non-trading periods and delegate effectively across service, VM, and operations", "Develop team capability in styling, product knowledge, visual execution, and customer experience", "Identify and share best practices across both locations to build confident, capable teams delivering consistently high standards"
Customer & Brand Experience: "Champion a customer-first mindset, ensuring service is never compromised by tasks", "Deliver a consistent and elevated service experience across both locations", "Maintain a strong, visible presence on the shop floor, especially during peak trading periods", "Ensure both stores are always customer-ready, balancing service, product, operational, and visual priorities", "Lead by example in styling, product storytelling, clienteling, and customer engagement", "Recognise differences in customer behaviour between locations and support teams in responding appropriately while maintaining consistent Varley standards"
Visual Merchandising & Brand Execution: "Execute VM strategy in line with brand guidelines across windows, mannequins, and shop floors in both assigned locations", "Ensure consistent execution of Varley visual standards while responding to the individual commercial needs of each store", "Ensure strong product placement and impactful visual storytelling", "Adapt displays based on trading patterns, customer behaviour, product performance, inventory depth, and local market needs", "Use visual merchandising to support newness, product storytelling, conversion, and basket building", "Identify opportunities to improve product visibility, outfitting, flow, and shopability", "Support execution of window changes, in-store features, campaigns, and seasonal updates", "Communicate VM priorities clearly and coach teams to consistently maintain elevated, commercially relevant, and customer-ready environments"
Product Performance & Commercial Ownership: "Own product flow from BOH to shop floor, ensuring availability, replenishment, and strong presentation", "Analyse sales, product performance, and inventory across both stores to inform decisions", "Translate KPIs into clear, actionable priorities for each store team", "Ensure visibility and replenishment of bestsellers, newness, and key commercial products", "Identify size, colour, assortment, and inventory opportunities that may be impacting sales", "Partner with BOH teams to review stock levels, sell-outs, and opportunities", "Connect product performance and inventory insights to visual and commercial decisions", "Compare performance and opportunities across both locations where relevant, recognising differences in customer demand and trading patterns", "Share relevant product insights, customer feedback, and reporting with Store Managers, VMM, and central teams"
Daily Operations & Floor Leadership: "Lead daily operations including Daily Planner, morning setup, and replenishment routines when working within each location", "Oversee stock processing including delivery, hanging, steaming, tagging, and replenishment", "Maintain high standards across shop floor and stockroom, ensuring environments are clean, organised, and safe", "Supervise teams during peak periods to ensure customer service and VM standards are upheld", "Investigate stock discrepancies and support loss prevention initiatives", "Step into duty management, including opening and closing, as needed within the store in which they are working", "Ensure compliance with operational policies, health & safety, and uniform standards", "Support Store Managers in balancing competing commercial, operational, customer, and visual priorities", "Maintain clear communication between both locations to support consistent and effective execution"
Dual-Store Leadership & Consistency: "Effectively split working hours and operational focus across both store locations, prioritising time based on business, trading, and visual needs", "Assess each location through a commercial, customer, operational, and visual lens", "Identify key opportunities within each store and translate these into clear actions and follow-up", "Work with both Store Managers to maintain accountability for agreed visual and commercial actions", "Ensure consistency in Varley brand standards while allowing execution to respond appropriately to each store’s customer, product mix, and trading patterns", "Identify successful practices within one location that could positively support the other and facilitate knowledge sharing between both teams", "Provide visibility to the VMM and Store Managers on key opportunities, challenges, and progress across both locations"
Collection Launches & Product Knowledge: "Support planning and execution of launches, campaigns, and seasonal rollouts across both locations", "Ensure both stores are ready for deliveries, VM updates, and launches, coordinating with BOH and shop floor teams for smooth execution", "Ensure teams understand key product stories, styling opportunities, and commercial priorities", "Deliver product briefings, training, and ongoing coaching", "Ensure access to lookbooks, product materials, and training tools to enable confident styling advice and brand storytelling", "Monitor launch performance and customer response across both locations, adapting presentation where appropriate", "Maintain a strong perception of newness across both stores", "Encourage cross-training across FOH and BOH to build flexibility"
Cross-Functional Collaboration: "Partner with both Store Managers, Head of Retail, VMM, Retail Operations, Training, Inventory, Logistics, Brand, Marketing, and other relevant cross-functional partners to ensure alignment across commercial, operational, customer, and visual priorities", "Act as a key link between both store teams and central functions, ensuring clear and consistent communication", "Prov feedback on product performance, customer behaviour, VM execution, inventory, operations, and store-level opportunities
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to convert responsibilities into list items.
Requirements: Minimum 3 years’ experience in retail leadership, ideally across operations and visual merchandising; maybe also other requirements like ability to manage priorities across two locations etc. Those are more skills. But we can treat requirements as the minimum experience and maybe "Ability to balance commercial, customer, visual, and operational priorities" etc. However those are also skills. We'll separate: Requirements: Minimum 3 years’ experience in retail leadership, ideally across operations and visual merchandising; Ability to manage priorities effectively across two store locations; Ability to build strong relationships and influence teams across both locations; Experience in a fast-paced, high-volume retail environment; Proficiency with POS, CRM systems, and retail reporting tools. Also maybe "Strong commercial awareness with the ability to link visuals to sales performance" etc. But that's skill.
Qualifications: maybe not distinct; could be same as requirements. But we can omit if no specific qualifications like degree etc. The posting doesn't mention education qualifications. So we may skip Qualifications section if no specific content.
Skills: list of skills: Strong commercial awareness, ability to analyse data, product performance, inventory; Strong leadership, coaching, communication skills; Highly organised with strong operational and prioritisation skills; Ability to manage priorities across two locations; Ability to build strong relationships and influence teams; Strong interest in fashion industry, focus on styling and brand storytelling; Experience in fast-paced high-volume retail; Proficiency with POS, CRM, retail reporting tools; Ability to balance commercial, customer, visual, operational priorities; Agile, adaptable, resilient.
We need to avoid duplication. We'll create sections with unique content.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
Thus final HTML:
About the role
... company description + role overview?
ThenResponsibilities
- ... each responsibility bullet.
Requirements
- ...
Skills
- ...
- . People Leadership & Team Development: list items: "Lead from the shop floor, setting clear expectations and role clarity across FOH and BOH", "Inspire and motivate through fair, consistent, values-led leadership", "Foster a collaborative, accountable, and solution-focused culture", "Coach and develop teams across both locations through regular feedback and in-the-moment support", "Build strong working relationships with both Store Managers and their leadership teams", "Provide clear priorities during trading and non-trading periods and delegate effectively across service, VM, and operations", "Develop team capability in styling, product knowledge, visual execution, and customer experience", "Identify and share best practices across both locations to build confident, capable teams delivering consistently high standards" Customer & Brand Experience: "Champion a customer-first mindset, ensuring service is never compromised by tasks", "Deliver a consistent and elevated service experience across both locations", "Maintain a strong, visible presence on the shop floor, especially during peak trading periods", "Ensure both stores are always customer-ready, balancing service, product, operational, and visual priorities", "Lead by example in styling, product storytelling, clienteling, and customer engagement", "Recognise differences in customer behaviour between locations and support teams in responding appropriately while maintaining consistent Varley standards" Visual Merchandising & Brand Execution: "Execute VM strategy in line with brand guidelines across windows, mannequins, and shop floors in both assigned locations", "Ensure consistent execution of Varley visual standards while responding to the individual commercial needs of each store", "Ensure strong product placement and impactful visual storytelling", "Adapt displays based on trading patterns, customer behaviour, product performance, inventory depth, and local market needs", "Use visual merchandising to support newness, product storytelling, conversion, and basket building", "Identify opportunities to improve product visibility, outfitting, flow, and shopability", "Support execution of window changes, in-store features, campaigns, and seasonal updates", "Communicate VM priorities clearly and coach teams to consistently maintain elevated, commercially relevant, and customer-ready environments" Product Performance & Commercial Ownership: "Own product flow from BOH to shop floor, ensuring availability, replenishment, and strong presentation", "Analyse sales, product performance, and inventory across both stores to inform decisions", "Translate KPIs into clear, actionable priorities for each store team", "Ensure visibility and replenishment of bestsellers, newness, and key commercial products", "Identify size, colour, assortment, and inventory opportunities that may be impacting sales", "Partner with BOH teams to review stock levels, sell-outs, and opportunities", "Connect product performance and inventory insights to visual and commercial decisions", "Compare performance and opportunities across both locations where relevant, recognising differences in customer demand and trading patterns", "Share relevant product insights, customer feedback, and reporting with Store Managers, VMM, and central teams" Daily Operations & Floor Leadership: "Lead daily operations including Daily Planner, morning setup, and replenishment routines when working within each location", "Oversee stock processing including delivery, hanging, steaming, tagging, and replenishment", "Maintain high standards across shop floor and stockroom, ensuring environments are clean, organised, and safe", "Supervise teams during peak periods to ensure customer service and VM standards are upheld", "Investigate stock discrepancies and support loss prevention initiatives", "Step into duty management, including opening and closing, as needed within the store in which they are working", "Ensure compliance with operational policies, health & safety, and uniform standards", "Support Store Managers in balancing competing commercial, operational, customer, and visual priorities", "Maintain clear communication between both locations to support consistent and effective execution" Dual-Store Leadership & Consistency: "Effectively split working hours and operational focus across both store locations, prioritising time based on business, trading, and visual needs", "Assess each location through a commercial, customer, operational, and visual lens", "Identify key opportunities within each store and translate these into clear actions and follow-up", "Work with both Store Managers to maintain accountability for agreed visual and commercial actions", "Ensure consistency in Varley brand standards while allowing execution to respond appropriately to each store’s customer, product mix, and trading patterns", "Identify successful practices within one location that could positively support the other and facilitate knowledge sharing between both teams", "Provide visibility to the VMM and Store Managers on key opportunities, challenges, and progress across both locations" Collection Launches & Product Knowledge: "Support planning and execution of launches, campaigns, and seasonal rollouts across both locations", "Ensure both stores are ready for deliveries, VM updates, and launches, coordinating with BOH and shop floor teams for smooth execution", "Ensure teams understand key product stories, styling opportunities, and commercial priorities", "Deliver product briefings, training, and ongoing coaching", "Ensure access to lookbooks, product materials, and training tools to enable confident styling advice and brand storytelling", "Monitor launch performance and customer response across both locations, adapting presentation where appropriate", "Maintain a strong perception of newness across both stores", "Encourage cross-training across FOH and BOH to build flexibility" Cross-Functional Collaboration: "Partner with both Store Managers, Head of Retail, VMM, Retail Operations, Training, Inventory, Logistics, Brand, Marketing, and other relevant cross-functional partners to ensure alignment across commercial, operational, customer, and visual priorities", "Act as a key link between both store teams and central functions, ensuring clear and consistent communication", "Prov feedback on product performance, customer behaviour, VM execution, inventory, operations, and store-level opportunities