Visual Merchandising Supervisor - Willow Grove

Bloomingdale's•Upper Moreland Township, PA

1d•$42,735 - $70,875•Onsite

About The Position

Bloomingdale’s makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We will always strive to make Bloomingdale’s like no other store in the world. Across all brand touchpoints—from Bloomingdales.com to our newest small store concept, Bloomie’s—everyone plays a critical role bringing our mission to life. Our inclusive culture promotes diversity of background, thought and opinion. Regardless of position, we believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial and collaborative, while having a lot of fun along the way.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent required
1-2 years direct experience
Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to communicate and share information with diverse groups of customers and peers.
Resourceful self-starter, works well independently as well as part of a team, and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
Must satisfy licensing requirements (as required by state or local jurisdiction).
Strong leadership profile.
Able to use and navigate multiple technological devices.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities and learn new procedures.
Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality is required.

Responsibilities

Oversees and supports the Visual and Merchandising process in the store, balancing creativity with commerce to execute in store success.
Hires, trains, develops and coaches the performance of the Visual/Merchandising Team, ensuring they follow all visual merchandising standards.
Models a strong creative sense of fashion leadership balanced with an understanding of metric driven commerce.
Drives front of house planning in store to ensure that day in/day out fashion leadership, merchandise presentation techniques and promotional events calendar execution is consistent with corporate directives.
Develops and maintains positive relationships and open lines of communication with Store Leadership, Store Associates, Central Visual, and Visual/Merchandising teams.
Cultivates a strong business partnership with Store and Regional leadership team partners.
Empowers visual and merchandising team to ensure aligned execution of all merchandise strategies, presentation standards and marketing campaigns.
Sources, interviews and hires colleagues for their area to build a high functioning team.
Ensures that all newly hired Visual/Merchandising colleagues successfully complete all new hire training and orientation and are transitioned into Bloomingdale’s culture.
Recognizes performance above standard and celebrates with the individual and the team.
Promotes an open door to welcome concerns from coworkers from all levels and positions.
Implements and delivers an outstanding environment of presentation and merchandising.
Works side by side with team, leads by example, providing regular feedback to Visual/Merchandising team colleagues; coaching behaviors and using performance management tools to drive results.
Trains, administers and enforces all Visual and Merchandising standards, procedures, equipment usage, and safety criteria.
Utilizes promotional calendar to set priorities and meet deadlines for events.
Contributes to and attends weekly and daily workload planning meetings.
Participates in elements of profitability: shortage, productivity and adherence to audit standards as applicable to visual and merchandising operations.
Appropriately schedules self and staff to support the needs of the store and stays within budgeted hours.
Educates selling and support colleagues on key visual and merchandising techniques and standards presentations.
Leads a Visual Merchandising Team to deliver a customer centric fashion vision.
Inspires customers and drives sales through fashion leadership and merchandise presentation.
Understands all store goals and plans, informing Visual/Merchandising team of store initiatives.
In alignment with central marketing campaigns creates an exciting in store experience through innovative and animated techniques of visual presentation and lifestyle merchandising concepts and eventing.