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Visual Merchandising Manager
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We are delighted to be representing a luxury brand to recruit a Visual Merchandising Manager to support the Visual Merchandising Director in bringing the brand's global visual merchandising vision to life across international markets.
About the Role
Combining strong project management with hands-on visual merchandising capability, the role will coordinate the development, production and rollout of displays, planograms, launch animations, prototypes and implementation toolkits.
Serving as a key link between the global function, regional teams and external partners, the Visual Merchandising Manager will keep projects on schedule, within budget and to the required luxury standard. The role will maintain clear project controls, support market execution, consolidate feedback and reporting, and help the Director turn strategy into consistent, commercially effective retail experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Help to maintain standards set by the Visual Merchandising Director through the execution of campaigns, pop up’s and the every-day store experience, assisting with the global and regional execution of projects.
- Supervise the Visual Merchandising direction for retail: Supervise the development and approval of global display concepts, planograms, launch animations, campaign executions, merchandising solutions and retail storytelling.
- Protect brand consistency: Work with the Global Visual Merchandising Director to maintain the global standards, governance and approval processes that safeguard the Brand’s identity, while allowing appropriate market adaptation.
- Action annual and seasonal planning: Help to maintain priorities, scope and phasing for the global Visual Merchandising calendar.
- Drive excellence in global and regional execution: Maintain clear communication and build strong relationships with both global retail and the regional and local teams. Resolve execution challenges and maintain a clear feedback loop between markets and the global function.
- Champion innovation and sustainability: Identify emerging retail, material and production opportunities and embed more responsible, efficient and scalable practices in concept development and rollout.
- Augment capability: Assist the Visual Merchandising Director to improve ways of working across regional teams.
- Provide executive visibility: Assist with the presentation of strategies, concepts and take ownership of the delivery of the Visual Merchandising toolkits.
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Skills/Experience
- 5 years relevant experience in visual merchandising, retail design, store design or retail project management ideally gained within a luxury or premium brand.
- Strong project-management capability, with experience coordinating multiple projects, markets, deadlines and stakeholders at the same time.
- Practical design capability, including creating or adapting mock-ups, retail concepts, layouts and planograms.
- Experience briefing and coordinating agencies, production suppliers, manufacturers, logistics partners or installers.
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with confidence managing trackers, budgets, quotations, purchase orders and documentation.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to interpret execution and performance data, identify themes and present clear recommendations.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and/or relevant 3D/CAD tools.
- Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, with the ability to produce polished presentations and reliable project reporting.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the confidence to work with global, regional and external stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel internationally as required and to support installations outside standard hours where necessary.
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Personal Attributes
- Highly organised, proactive and calm under pressure.
- Creative and visually discerning, with an eye for luxury detail and finish.
- A collaborative team player who follows through and communicates early.
- Solutions-focused and comfortable balancing several competing priorities.
- Curious, commercially aware and motivated to improve how work is delivered.
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