Director, Visual Merchandising & Store Design
About The Position
Elevate the visual representation of the Guerlain brand in all point of sales across the U.S. This role involves enhancing the Guerlain experience through merchandising elements, event and counter animations, and launch elements. The position requires analyzing current elements, proposing new solutions, and assisting with marketing and sales efforts by designing and developing merchandising strategies and visual opportunities. A key responsibility is creating a visual merchandising database for department store doors and partnering with the Paris HQ Visual Merchandising team to ensure global soft merchandising meets US market needs. The role also includes providing training on design concepts and visual display standards to field sales teams and store teams in key flagship doors. Additionally, it involves maintaining and cultivating relationships with retail partners, creating a contact database, and specifically partnering with Sephora for seasonal updates. In store design, the Director will collaborate with the Paris HQ store design team on flagship counters and freestanding stores, managing all project management aspects for construction and installation. This includes reviewing design and construction documents, obtaining retailer approval, establishing timetables, coordinating the bid process, reviewing shop drawings, providing on-site supervision, and coordinating punch lists post-installation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of visual merchandising and store design experience in a similar or related industry
- Must possess strong analytical skills, good oral and written presentation skills
- Excellent computer skills, including in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite and AutoCad
- Exhibit a keen ability to be proactive as well as handle a multitude of projects at one time
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; hands-on professional
- Should be a strategic leader and excellent team player
- Architecture, industrial or interior design degree required
Responsibilities
- Elevate the Guerlain experience with enhanced merchandising elements and tools; including, event animation elements, counter animation elements, launch elements
- Analyze current event elements and tools, and propose new solutions
- Assist with marketing, and sales efforts at each retail location by designing, developing and customizing merchandising strategies and creating visual opportunities
- Create a visual merchandising database with information on each department store doors
- Partner with Paris HQ Visual Merchandising team to ensure global soft merchandising development meet the US market needs requirements
- Partner with the Guerlain Sales Field and provide training on design concepts, visual display standards, and the proper maintenance of the overall visual merchandising efforts
- Provide on-the-job training to members of the store team in key flagship doors to actively support the visual merchandising efforts
- Maintain and cultivate relationships with retail partners
- Create database of key contacts per retailer
- Partner with the marketing team and gondola vendor for the design and implementation of seasonal updates (Sephora)
- Partner with Paris HQ store design team to develop Guerlain flagship counters and freestanding stores and coordinate all project management aspects for construction and installation.
- Review all design and construction documents pertaining to each project
- Partner with VP, Sales to obtain retailer approval for new and remodeled counters
- Establish timetables and drive all parties to complete phases as scheduled
- Coordinate bid process with Purchasing Department
- Review shop drawings with Paris HQ store design team
- Provide on-site construction supervision
- Work with internal teams to provide proper merchandising elements for installations.
- Coordinate all punch lists post-installation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
Associate degree
