FT Visual Merch
MarketingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content.
We need to parse the job description.
First, there is "About the Team" but that's not a required heading; we can treat as maybe part of About the role? The instructions: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. So we can include sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule if content exists.
We need to preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to extract content.
Let's parse the job description.
It starts:
Job Description About the Team Hiring Manager: Here’s where you’ll highlight what your team does. Example: You will be part of the Technical Infrastructure team responsible for designing, building and delivering key technical building blocks such as Servers, Storage, Networking, Voice, Databases, Data Centers, Service Desk and Monitoring tools. Our job is to ensure that every WSI location, associate and customer has the best experience possible utilizing our vast array of technical solutions we provide. * ** About The Role Th e Visual Merchandiser focuses on the visual interpretation and direction with cross-functional partners and teammates to deliver an exceptional customer experience in our global businesses and partners. The role supports the execution of visual strategies across the brand by creating visual tools and resources that allow home office + stores to plan and execute flawlessly to drive sales. This role will work closely with the Director of Visual Merchandising on calendars, logistics, process + communications to global and corporate partners. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will...
Then bullet points under "Strategic Alignment", "Team Development", "Operational Excellence", "Why you will love working at Williams-Sonoma, Inc.", "We’re excited about you because...", "Technical Competencies required : *** HM : List any technical requirements, if applicable. For example: ..." then "Physical Requirements", "Benefits", then a list of benefits, then "WSI will not now or in the future commence an immigration case..." then "For Sf Only ..." then "Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer..." then "About Us Our Company Founded in 1956..."
We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions.
Thus we should remove sections like "WSI will not now or in the future commence an immigration case..." (immigration sponsorship), "For Sf Only ..." maybe location-specific? It says "For Sf Only Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer . Williams-Sonoma, Inc. will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, or other applicable state or local laws and ordinances." That's EEO boilerplate; remove.
Also remove "About Us Our Company Founded..." maybe considered boilerplate? It's about the company; might be considered substantive? The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The "About Us" section is generic company description; might be considered boilerplate but could be considered substantive? Usually job postings include company overview; but the instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. "About Us" is not explicitly listed, but could be considered boilerplate? It's not navigation/legal/EEO. Might be okay to keep? However they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." The About Us could be a section but not in the list of headings. We could incorporate into About the role? Probably better to keep as a paragraph under About the role or maybe as a separate section "About the Company". But not in allowed headings list; they gave examples but not exclusive? They said use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). That suggests we should limit to those headings. So we should not create other headings like About the Company. So we should incorporate company info into About the role or maybe drop if not needed. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we drop the About Us company overview, we might be losing substantive info. But maybe it's considered boilerplate? Not sure. However typical job description includes company overview; but they didn't list it as a heading to use. Could embed within About the role as a paragraph.
We need to decide.
Given the instruction to prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones, we could combine everything into About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits. Pay and Schedule not present (no pay or schedule specifics). So we omit those.
We need to extract responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, skills, benefits.
Let's identify sections:
- About the Role: description of role, strategic alignment, team development, operational excellence, why you will love working at WS, we’re excited about you because..., technical competencies, physical requirements.
We need to separate into Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills maybe.
But we need to follow typical structure: Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (maybe experience/education), Qualifications (maybe similar), Skills (specific abilities). However the posting doesn't have explicit headings for these; we need to infer and create sections based on content.
We must not invent content; we must preserve all substantive info. So we need to parse the bullet points and assign them to appropriate sections.
Let's extract the bullet points under each heading.
From the text:
After "You’re excited about this opportunity because you will..." then list:
Strategic Alignment
- Partner's with merchants, planners, allocations & visual teams to create cohesive and elevated visual merchandising strategy for global stores.
- Acts as a business partner to merchant, allocation and country teams during and after seasonal floor sets.
- Identifies merchandising updates based on business results and assortment strategies.
- Partners with Director of Visual Merchandising on elevated and advanced in-store displays and windows
- Creates distinct and differentiated visual merchandising strategies in our franchise, company owned and wholesale businesses.
- Market + cultural relevant merchandising + training strategies to drive sales and introduce + expand brand globally
- Assists in the mapping and planning of product placement and merchandising of retail presentations and visual floor sets.
- Assesses and impacts each shop structure and allocation of space to maximize business focus on selected store locations.
- Develop + manage visual merchandising standards + training topics -- quarterly updates, tools + training for global partners to ensure brand integrity globally.
- Identify + develop training opportunities to build visual merchandising skills and train + develop country brand managers from corporate office as well as traveling to markets to execute workshops.
- Manage the global calendar to ensure all VM guidelines get published and communicated + published on time.
- Assist with the development of the corporate visual merchandising presentation for all categories, starting with the conceptual through the execution phases (and post floor set execution, in season updates and on-going sell through strategies)
Team Development
- Participate in seasonal presentation workshops, meetings and conference calls with corporate + global teams.
- Contribute to visual team training and seasonal feedback to support development of teams
- Solicits feedback from field visual teams to provide insight for merchant, planning and allocation teams
- Facilitates the sharing of inspiration and idea generation
- Partners with all functions of visual merchandising department to support a cohesive visual strategy
- Provides thoughtful and educational feedback to field visual teams
- Strong verbal + written communication skills
Operational Excellence
- Support visual team budget and be fiscally responsible
Why you will love working at Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
- We’re a successful, fast-growing company with an entrepreneurial vibe
- A technologically and data-driven business
- Competitive salaries and comprehensive health benefits
- We’re at the forefront of tech and retail, redefining technology for the next generation
- We’re passionate about our internal and external clients and live/breathe the client experience
- We get to be creative daily
- A smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right and is open to new ideas
- We believe in autonomy and reward taking initiative
- We have fun!
We’re excited about you because...
- Ability to balance creativity with business acumen
- Influencing, problem analysis and decision making skills + ability to inspire
- Acts in service to our field global organizations + as a brand ambassador reflective of the company values + aesthetic
- Has a strong understanding of trend and style that is reflective of the brand
- Strong verbal + written communication skills
- Strong proficiency of In-Design, Photoshop + Photography
- Knowledge in visual merchandising techniques, standards + practices -- how this translates to the global field teams
- Strong understanding of merchandising and its direct impact on sales
- Ability to provide significant feedback, ideas and hindsight on current and future floor-sets, windows, marketing tools and seasonal strategies thru filed partnership and assessment process and seasonal hindsight recaps.
- Proven creativity with strong aesthetic sensibility and excellent visual merchandising skills
- Strong understanding of product position strategies, promotions, inventory across multi-channel store designs
- Competition and industry aware with a strong knowledge of the country markets
- Ability to act as a resource, trainer and communicator of information to manage and elevate visual consistency
- International travel required
- Ensures the merchandising processes are collaborative, supported and well-planned
Technical Competencies required : ***
HM : List any technical requirements, if applicable. For example: Deep understanding of numerous networking protocols such as OSPF, BGP, VRRP, DNS, DHCP, proxy functions (forward and reverse), security protocols (IPSec, SSL, etc.), real-time protocols for voice (Skinny, SIP, H.323, MGCP), in addition to WAN communications protocols including MPLS, DWDM, OC carrier, BRI/PRI Familiarization with cloud/storage services Basic scripting skills in Python, Perl, iRules, TCL, Chef/Puppet or Go a plus
Physical Requirements
- Ability to lift and mobilize medium to large items, up to 75 lbs., while utilizing appropriate equipment and safety techniques.
- Ability to be mobile on the sales floor for extended periods of time.
Benefits
- A generous discount on all Williams Sonoma Inc. brands through multiple shopping channels
- A 401(k) plan and other investment opportunities
- Paid vacations, holidays and other time-off programs
- Health benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance; health and dependent care tax-free spending accounts; medical, family and bereavement leave; same-sex domestic partner benefits; short- and long-term disability programs; life and travel insurance; an employee assistance program
- Tax-free commuter benefits
- A wellness program that supports your physical, financial and emotional health
- In-person and online learning opportunities through WSI University
- Cross-brand and cross-function career opportunities
- Location specific sample sales
- A business casual work environment
- San Francisco based bike share program
- Time off to volunteer
- Matching donations to qualifying nonprofit organizations
- Company-sponsored community involvement
- Various discounts on local businesses
Then there is immigration statement etc.
We need to output sections: About the role (maybe as About the role
), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits.
We need to decide what goes where.
Responsibilities: likely the duties: Strategic Alignment, Team Development, Operational Excellence bullet points.
Requirements: maybe education/experience? Not given. Could be technical competencies and physical requirements? Those could be Requirements.
Qualifications: maybe similar to Requirements? Could combine.
Skills: maybe the "We’re excited about you because..." list (skills/attributes) and also technical competencies.
But we need to avoid duplication.
We need to preserve all substantive info; we can allocate as:
- About the