Visual Merchandising Manager, Wholesale

vineyard vines is a highly successful, privately held, American clothing and accessory retailer founded in 1998 on Martha’s Vineyard by brothers, Shep & Ian Murray. With Shep & Ian still at the helm today, vineyard vines has experienced exponential year-over-year growth and now operates over 120 retail locations including an outlet division, a successful e-commerce business, a domestic distribution center, and an expanding corporate headquarters. The brand is also carried in major department stores such as Nordstrom and Bloomingdales, as well as numerous specialty boutiques across the US. Founded on the state of mind that Every day should feel this good, vineyard vines invites everyone to embrace a fun, encouraging, and welcoming culture—whether at work or away from it.

About the role

The Wholesale Visual Merchandising Manager ensures business initiatives and visual strategies are supported in all wholesale accounts. Wholesale Visual Merchandising ties back to key buys, and the experience in each account reflects current company initiatives, brand creative, and standards.

Responsibilities

• Supports Visual and Wholesale teams on the execution of the overall visual merchandising strategy in all wholesale accounts.
• Attends sample turnover and big ideas meetings with Visual and Merchandising teams to learn the assortments and important buys.
• Supports monthly compass direction, working in close partnership with Visual and Product Merchandising to bring big ideas and seasonal initiatives to life in wholesale through product placement, mannequin looks, and styling direction.
• Responsible for sharing and communicating the compass document and all brand visual tools with top wholesale accounts.
• Leverages existing brand visual tools or develops new tools as needed to tailor direction to different types of wholesale accounts to assure execution.
• Organizes workshops and in-person/virtual training sessions to teach visual merchandising and creative techniques to internal wholesale team, wholesale specialists, and top accounts (“train the trainer”).
• Creates and communicates in-season visual merchandising changes to internal wholesale team and accounts, including sale direction, creative updates, or responses to feedback from store visits or Senior Leadership team.
• Travels to top wholesale accounts to lead and work alongside the teams on seasonal compass sets, specialty installs, remodels, etc.
• Assists Design, Merchandising, Brand Concept, and Visual teams with merchandising and creative in the quarterly line adoption sets and brand concept sets.
• Responsible for taking seasonal concept from line adoption and adapting the idea to tradeshow sets and top wholesale account’s seasonal sets.
• Partners with Creative Services and Marketing teams on monthly, seasonal, and special events creative and artwork, ensuring consistency with brand vision.
• Orders window and marketing collateral for partner stores and specialty accounts as directed by internal wholesale team.
• Manages tradeshow process from start to finish, including budget, ordering, setup and breakdown, logistics, and schedule.
• Assists with office and special event setups, including company meetings, vendor meetings, corporate events, and licensing events (e.g., Kentucky Derby, golf tournaments).
• Leads Wholesale new store openings (shop-in-shops, airport stores, partner stores) and attends Retail and Outlet new store openings as needed to support current visual merchandising and creative strategies.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Visual Merchandiser or related role.
• Demonstrated visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio.
• Solid experience in field visual merchandising, including window displays, signs, interior displays, and space utilization.
• Ability to install creative (patch & paint, hanging, displays, etc.).
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and other visual design tools.
• Knowledge of current visual merchandising trends and best practices.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Creative and innovative thinker with the ability to analyze sales merchandising reports and survey results.
• Strong listening, written, and oral communication skills.
• Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to react quickly with a strong sense of urgency.
• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities.
• Flexible travel schedule.
• Able to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
• Ability to innovate and challenge current norms to drive positive change and efficacy.
• Experience in customer and trend direction to inform assortment strategy and decision-making.
• Team-oriented with the ability to interact with partners inside and outside the organization at all levels.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package, 401-K, commuter benefits, and paid family leave.
• Health savings, flex spending accounts, life & disability insurance.
• Generous employee discount.
• Onsite gym and health & financial wellness programs.
• 2 summer Fridays in addition to a competitive vacation policy & holiday calendar.