Visual Merchandising Manager

What You Will Do

• Demonstrate a high level of ownership, accountability, and initiative in achieving store objectives and driving the accomplishment of key metrics.
• Direct and support team with strategic installations and floor setups for special events, seasonal campaigns, and weekly storewide promotional events to enhance customer shopping experience.
• Lead team in timely execution of daily visual maintenance, adjustment of accent lighting, and layering in additional visual elements to optimize presentations in high-impact areas.
• Collaborate with merchandising, selling, and operation leaders to align on product, promotion, and pricing strategies.
• Lead weekly store walkthroughs to assess visual merchandising standards and directive execution and identify opportunities to elevate presentations.
• Participate in weekly leadership workload planning meetings to ensure all visual assignments and tasks are prepped, planned, and scheduled, while ensuring execution plan aligns with company priorities and processes.
• Utilize visual directives to determine required labor hours.
• Build comprehensive team knowledge of visual merchandising directives, guidelines, and standards, ensuring associates are trained to execute effectively, consistently, and on-brand.
• Model behaviors that foster a culture of excellence, teamwork, and a strong drive for results.
• Set and communicate clear team priorities and expectations.
• Enhance individual and store results through regularly reviewing associate performance, conducting meaningful coaching conversations, and embracing opportunities to continuously teach and develop.
• Support filling open positions timely through recruitment, interviewing, and facilitating team career development conversations to build ready-now bench of store talent.
• Oversee associate onboarding experience, ensuring structured onboarding completion.
• Support asset protection initiatives by effectively managing shortage control in designated area, ensuring compliance with asset protection, safety guidelines, and security protocols.

Skills And Abilities

• Ability to successfully apply analytics, experience, and judgement to make timely and effective business, people, and profitability decisions.
• Skills and experience to perform in the role and a commitment to continuously learn.
• Ability to develop others through mentorship, effective communication, and side-by-side coaching.
• Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision in a deadline-driven environment.
• Communicate with excellence.
• Comfortable with technology, including smart phones, tablet computers and Windows-based operating systems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Visual Merchandising or Retail Management.
• Available to work a flexible schedule based on business needs, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must regularly move around all store areas and be accessible to customers.
• Must bend, reach, stretch for product as well as lift, carry, and move at least 50 lbs.
• Ability to work with paint, climb ladders, carry props, and work with visual elements at heights.