Sr. Associate, Visual Merchandising (Hybrid)

About the Role

The Senior Associate, Visual Merchandising supports cohesive store presentations and floor sets that provide compelling appeal to the core customer while incorporating current company merchandise strategies.

Responsibilities

• Support the creation of effective visual displays to create a shopping experience that maximizes revenue and customer satisfaction.
• Provide a holistic visual merchandising perspective by translating brand strategy, customer insights, and sales data into compelling in-store experiences that improve engagement, conversion, and execution across the retail fleet.
• Keep up with industry trends and innovate new and different ways to merchandise floor sets that maintain brand relevancy and keep Claire's on the cutting edge of retail excellence.
• Create brand-right storytelling in retail spaces that perpetuate the brand, driving traffic and conversion.
• Oversee the production and maintenance of Claire’s model store.
• Work cross-functionally with buying and planning to ensure accurate product implementation and realistic floor sets from concept through field execution.
• Review and revise visual implementation to ensure brand consistency, best practices, and accuracy.
• Plan, schedule, and supervise the planogram turn-in process between merchandising, marketing, and ISP.
• Create planogram materials to support the planning and execution of planograms in field stores.
• Design promotional and trend marketing materials for field implementation and maintain model store marketing installations to drive consistent brand presentation and execution across stores.
• Supervise the internal training program, redefining training practices as needed to evolve with changing staffing needs.
• Oversee the interdepartmental training program to ensure accurate product handover in an efficient manner that best supports the visual process.
• Engage in regular field store visits to understand all aspects of the floor sets being supervised.
• Keep a regular comp-shop schedule to maintain awareness of competition.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of retail management experience required.
• 2 years of visual merchandising experience required.
• Self-starter with a strong attention to detail.
• Experience creating and implementing visual presentations.
• Experience directing a team through a floor set changeover.
• Working knowledge of current visual merchandising trends and best practices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Microsoft Office.

Benefits

• For full-time employees: medical, dental, and vision insurance, voluntary welfare plans, bonus plan eligibility, 401(k) match, vacation time, sick time*, and paid leave.
• For part-time employees: voluntary welfare plans, 401(k) match, vacation time, sick time*, and paid leave in required states.

*Sick Time: For the State of Washington, all employees will accrue paid sick time at the rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.

Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.