Job Title:
Award-Winning Visual Merchandiser
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About the Role:
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We are seeking a highly skilled and creative Visual Merchandiser to join our team. As a Visual Merchandiser, you will play a key role in driving visual excellence across our stores. Your primary responsibility will be to shape impactful consumer journeys, coach in-store visual merchandisers, and ensure seamless brand execution for seasonal campaigns, product launches, promotions, and all key product categories within our retail stores.
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Key Responsibilities:
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* Drive Excellence: Implement best practice visual merchandising and in-store communication standards to create a strong consumer journey, highlighting product features and brand stories to drive sell-through – ensuring consistency of execution across a portfolio of stores.
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* Train and Guide: Train, guide, and motivate In-Store Visual Merchandisers (ISVM) to continuously deliver excellence in execution across the entire market in DTC.
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* Cascade Brand Guidelines: Cascade brand guidelines and VM guidelines to ISVM and store teams to ensure executional excellence and understanding of principles to drive accountability at store level.
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* Guide Store Teams: Solid ability to guide and influence ISVM and store teams in the following areas; overall consumer journeys and store layout, capacities and product density, color flow, mannequin styling, VM standards, ISC materials/sizes and specifications.
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* Measure and Report: Assist in measuring and reporting on retail productivity with recommendations to management for continuous improvement.
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* Understand Consumer Profiles: Understanding of consumer profiles, retail KPIs, and market strategy in order to guide decision making.
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* Support Omni-Channel Team: Support the omni-channel team by providing field/store insights to guide the campaign planning process in order to cater for individual stores/market needs.
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* Ensure Campaign Readiness: Ensure campaign readiness at store level (create plug & plays, collate installation permits, create campaign reporting documentation, and liaise with suppliers to support OCM installations).
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* Highlight Opportunities: Proactively highlight opportunities to both retail ops and omni-channel teams to drive efficiency on process and implementation.
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* Responsible for Auditing and Ordering VM Tools: Responsible for auditing and ordering VM tools for stores in collaboration with retail and omni teams.
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* Gather and Deliver Input: Assist in gathering, consolidating, and delivering input on visual merchandising and campaign performance from the DTC Market which will be delivered to the Hub & Global.
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* Report to Omni Channel Team: Report into the Omni Channel team and Retail Operations team to ensure a harmonious delivery of business priorities.
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* Lead New Store Openings: Lead new store openings in collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure perfect retail execution aligned with store concept and brand guidelines and oversee the management of in-store VM team support.
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* Audit and Report: Drive overall brand success across key Trade Zones by auditing and reporting on all DTC touchpoints.
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* Analyze Executions: Reporting from on-the-ground analysis of adidas executions and competitor activations.
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Required Skills and Qualifications:
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The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2-5 years' experience working in a sports/fashion customer & commercial-focused retail environment, with 1 year experience within a visual merchandising role or equivalent combination of education and experience.
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The candidate should possess strong interpersonal and clear communication skills, with a solid ability to take a proactive approach to strategy implementation and consistently communicate across relevant stakeholders.
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In addition, the candidate should have knowledge of retail landscape, visual merchandising, retail marketing, and presentation, as well as a strong project and planning skills, and a 'finisher, completer' mentality.
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The candidate should also have a valid driver's license and be able to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including evening, overnight, and weekend shifts.
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Benefits:
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This is an excellent opportunity to grow your career and work with a leading brand. The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary, benefits package, and ongoing training and development opportunities.
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Others:
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Please note that this job requires travel to various locations, including stores and head office.