Visual Manager

dfsventure•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

Responsible for maintaining the high retail standards of the company through Visual Merchandising and ensure that company Visual Guidelines are executed and followed. Maximize productivity through development and training of in-store personnel. Ensure that all projects satisfy the regional merchandising and sales promotional needs while maintaining the appropriate image of the Company through communication with Region Managers and Directors.

Requirements

Must be able to work independently and be able to flex hours in order to accomplish necessary tasks.
Previous visual management experience required.
Must have strong written and verbal skills.
Must have strong organizational and planning abilities.
Must be accurate and detail oriented.
Must have established interpersonal ability; maintain positive relationships with region and in-store personnel to accomplish tasks.
Must be able to react independently to formulate solutions to situations.

Responsibilities

Liaise and coordinate with vendors, sales and operations managers and merchants in the implementation of promotional brand activities and visual retail executions
Maintain effective and professional relationships with internal and external business partners.
Work with General Manager and merchandising team in formulating and problem solving concepts for merchandise themes, store fixturing, merchandise placement and establishing in-store graphic needs.
Upholding DFS corporate guidelines and standards for Visual merchandising – including visual signage, display, props, product merchandising, pricing, etc.
Creating location specific visual merchandising strategy to tests product assortment, pricing, and promotions.
Innovative thinking to maximize visual budget for return on investment and effective strategies to reduce operating and VM costs
Maintain timely communications with corporate teams through the use of e-mail, telephone communications and weekly department formatted progress reports as well as digital photo progress reports.
Recognize and establish visual needs by shop location.
Ensure that appropriate paperwork is maintained for in-store visual projects including but not limited to: purchase orders, invoices, calendars
Identify variances to project calendars and promotion installations.