Manager - Visual Merchandiser

FashionUnited; Dubai; On-site; AED 279,000 - 446,000; Full time

Job summary

FashionUnited in Dubai is seeking a Manager - Visual Merchandiser to lead brand standards and VM strategies for multiple business units. You will shape seasonal concepts, partner with Marketing and Store Ops to roll out visual ideas, and ensure high-quality execution through leadership and training.

The role emphasizes creativity, retail environment understanding, and collaboration across departments to elevate in-store customer experience and sales performance.

Qualifications

• Strong artistic and creative abilities to design visually appealing displays with an understanding of retail environment, customer experience and store layout.
• Previous experience in visual merchandising or a related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop visual merchandising strategies and brand standards for specific business units.
• Understand strategic merchandising initiatives for areas of accountability and develop visual concepts for each season and merchant initiative.
• Partner with Marketing and Store Operations to communicate and execute visual concepts for each season and merchant initiative.
• Collaborate with field VM leadership to ensure consistent high quality execution of visual ideas through training content and audits.
• Lead visual presentation on innovation and reinvention projects.
• Create user-friendly VM guidelines for store execution based on product assortment and space.
• Develop store and departmental space allocations and adjacencies to maximize consumer appeal and sales.
• Identify, recruit and develop talent for growth within the organization.
• Provide input to in-store branding and consumer experience, including fixtures, layouts and signage to drive sales.
• Contribute to development of prototypes and concepts addressing customer needs.
• Provide input into pace and scope of store remodel or renovation programs.

Job description

• Coordinate with Brand Principals, Buyers, Sales Promotion, Marketing, Procurement, and Retail Operations to develop compelling Visual Merchandising strategies.
• Development, refinement and execution of display and flow guides and make sure appropriate processes are in place to ensure these areas meet their productivity and quality requirements.
• Leading the design, creation, testing and rollout of strategic growth initiatives relating to format in stores.

Key Responsibility:

• Develop visual merchandising strategies and brand standards for specific business units.
• Understand strategic merchandising initiatives for areas of accountability and develop visual concepts for each season and merchant initiative based on the visual merchandising roadmap.
• Partner with Marketing and Store Operations to communicate and execute visual concepts for each season and merchant initiative based on Visual Merchandise Roadmap.
• Partner with field Visual Merchandising leadership to ensure consistent high quality execution of visual ideas through providing vision and tools, creating communications and training content, and performing audits.
• Leads visual presentation on innovation and re-invent projects.
• Create user-friendly VM Guidelines format for store execution, based on the product assortment/space.
• Develop specific store and departmental space allocations and adjacencies that maximize consumer appeal and contribute to sales objectives
• Identify, recruit and develop talent for growth and advancement within the organization.
• Provide input to overall in-store branding and consumer experience, including the design and placement of fixtures, layouts and graphics/signage to drive sales and customer satisfaction.
• Partner in the development of new prototypes and concepts to address specific customer needs and opportunities.
• Provide input into the pace and scope of store remodel or renovation programs.

Desired Experience:

The ideal Manager - Visual Merchandiser in a retail company should have strong artistic and creative abilities to design visually appealing displays with understanding of the retail environment, customer experience and store layout. previous experience in visual merchandising or a related field is preferred.

Product & Supply Chain, Retail Management & In-store