District Visual Merchandiser

Michael Kors (Austria) GmbH; Parndorf; Vor Ort; EUR 40.000 - 49.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Michael Kors is seeking a District Visual Merchandiser responsible for Germany, Austria, Poland and Sweden Outlets. The role reports to the Regional Visual Manager within Visual Merchandising and focuses on maintaining brand standards while balancing creativity with commerciality across multiple stores and countries.

You will drive visual consistency, lead training, support seasonal campaigns, and collaborate with marketing, buying and store teams.

Qualifikationen

• Fluency in English is mandatory.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills are required.
• Ability to think creatively and deliver visually impactful concepts.
• Strong interpersonal skills to train and work with store teams.

Aufgaben

• Monitor monthly VM execution in stores and provide guidance to retail partners.
• Lead store walkthroughs and monthly reports, and coordinate with the Regional Visual Manager.
• Support planning and installation of seasonal campaigns and new store openings across EU showrooms.
• Organize VM training programs for field staff and develop talent within the district.
• Collaborate with VM team and cross-functional partners to identify opportunities for visual improvements.

Kenntnisse

Fluency English

Planning & organization

Creative thinking

People skills

Tools

Outlook

Photoshop

PowerPoint

Word

Jobbeschreibung

Michael Kors is always interested in hearing from talented, globally-minded individuals with a passion for fashion. If you enjoy working in a creative, fast-paced environment, then we would love to hear from you!

Job Title: District Visual Merchandiser, responsible for Germany, Austria, Poland and Sweden Outlets.

Reporting Line: Regional Visual Manager

Division: Visual Merchandising

The District Visual Merchandiser operates as brand ambassador, reenforcing brand standards and vision across the estate, balancing creative vision with commerciality; ensuring the highest customer experience is delivered across all channels, both internally and externally.

The DVM Team operate as a support function for Retail primarily focused on driving visual consistency across all customer touchpoints and channels within a territory with multiple stores/countries. The role is also involved in various activities supporting the planning and visual execution of cross department’s projects, such as marketing activations, Showroom set ups, events, pop-ups and new store openings

Job Responsibilities:

Teamwork & Communication:

Monitor monthly VM execution in stores, providing guidance and training and discussing the best commercial strategies with retail business partners, collecting feedback and photos. On monthly bases deliver all administrative tasks relevant for DVM structure, such as monthly photo decks, store visits reports, whereabouts, weekly feedback. Submit weekly recap reports and feedback to Regional Visual Manager. Submit monthly creative CompShop ideas to Regional Visual Manager. Participate in weekly team conference calls held by Senior Visual Management. Lead assigned wider projects & activities, partnering with VM team members, internal departments (such as marketing) and external partners (department stores, suppliers) Partnering with the store management, host and lead monthly store walkthrough. Participate & support on annual VM summit, held by Senior EU VM Team. Support the planning and installation of seasonal market campaigns across EU showrooms for both mainline and Collection, working in collaboration with all the functions involved (merch, buying, planning, sales). Provide photo decks to all stakeholders. Support new store openings and relocations, both during planning phase and leading the installation and execution during the handover week.

Training & Development:

Field training: Organise and host VM training for base store and the district on regular basis. Plan and deliver structured, training-focused store visits. Support monthly floorset installation across the district by establishing a regular planning, feedback and follow up process. Regularly provide training refresh during weekly District Managers Conference Call. Collaborate at the creation of the VM training program, providing best practices and contents for the training tolls. Identify and train field VM talents to improve the general knowledge and create a successors talent pool. Support store management with recruiting and onboarding process of instore VMs.

Commercial Focus:

In cooperation with base store Manager, plan and implement monthly floorsets. Analyse base store performance on a weekly basis, tailoring and adjusting product placement to business needs. Support all Store Managers within the district with commercial product placement by using relevant reports and business tools. In cooperation with District Managers: plan, implement and oversee local VM strategies tailored to specific markets. Conduct regular joint visits with the District Managers in order to identify key VM / Product opportunities in store. Support quarterly District Managers’ business strategy by creating appropriate Visual Strategy and overseeing its implementation. Attend weekly District Managers Conference Calls to brief on key weekly VM focus areas and objectives. Collaborate with District Manager and Regional Visual Manager to identify business opportunities within existing store layout such as department swaps or expansion, grading reviews, commercial actions (peak vs no-peak). Collaborate with Regional Visual Managers to identify opportunities for the annual fixture review project, collect info and provide proposal for potential layout and business improvements. Collaborate with all other departments on the planning phase and rollout.

Creative Innovation:

Responsible for tailoring Brand VM directives to relevant markets. Focus on local approach. Support wider retail business through market specific projects, such as seasonal concept doors and pop-ups, product trials, showroom set ups. Deliver innovation projects focused on new display techniques to be used at EU and Global level. Incorporate monthly creative ideas into model store launches. Support Senior VM team collecting new ideas for props and fixtures, focusing on sustainability, communication (POS) and display techniques and partner with VM project manager (or RVM) to develop the ideas and rollout.

Requirements:

At least 3 years of experience working on a similar role, or managing VM in a flagship store. Experience working for a trend-led, premium, fashion-focused businesses. Great planning and organization skills. Great ability to work in partnership with other retail functions. Ability to deliver VM training to store teams in the territory, both physically and virtually. Experience with analysing KPI’s and derive action plans from them. Fluency English is mandatory, other languages beneficial. Ability to travel (approx. 40% of time in the home city, 60% travel) Awareness of industry trends and market specific customer profiles. Ability to demonstrate creative, commercial and people focused skills / competencies. Be a passionate and highly creative individual and able to consistently deliver visual excellence in our stores. Be willing to continually grow, develop and learn new skills. Interest in a career path within the retail industry. Have sound IT (Microsoft) knowledge. Outlook, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Word, etc.

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Compensation Range: 40,000.00 - 49,000.00 EUR

Michael Kors is a world-renowned, award-winning designer of luxury accessories and ready-to-wear. His namesake company, established in 1981, currently produces a range of products under Michael Kors Collection, Michael Kors, and Michael Kors Mens, including accessories, ready-to-wear, footwear, watches, jewelry, and a full line of fragrance products. Michael Kors stores are operated in the most prestigious cities in the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Milan, Paris, Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. In addition, Michael Kors operates digital flagships across North America, Europe, and Asia, offering customers a seamless omnichannel experience. At the center of it all is a designer who has created an enduring and iconic luxury lifestyle brand with a distinctive point of view and global reach. Michael Kors has a sharp focus on providing his customers with accessories and clothes that are consistently polished, chic, relaxed, and glamorous. Kors has also been the recipient of numerous industry awards and accolades within the fashion industry. The fashion designer also focuses on giving back. For more than 35 years he has been a passionate supporter of God’s Love We Deliver, a New York-based non-profit organization that cooks and delivers nutritious meals to people living with serious illnesses in and around New York City. In 2013, in a move to broaden his philanthropic efforts, Michael Kors launched “Watch Hunger Stop,” partnering with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to help fight world hunger. Proceeds from annual special-edition products and other targeted initiatives help provide food to children through WFP’s school meals program. To date, Michael Kors has helped WFP deliver over 35 million meals (and counting) to hungry children. For more information on how Capri Holdings Group uses your personal data, please see our Applicant Privacy Notice.