Assistant Area Visual Manager (Ottawa)

UNIQLO; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in retail seeks an Assistant Area Visual Manager to lead innovative visual merchandising strategies. This role involves overseeing the visual presentation in stores, ensuring alignment with corporate branding while driving creativity and excitement for customers. You'll collaborate with various teams to implement best practices and enhance the shopping experience, all while managing budgets and training staff. If you have a passion for fashion and a knack for design, this is your chance to shine in a dynamic environment that values growth and creativity.

Benefits

Employee Discounts

Training and Development Opportunities

Flexible Scheduling

Health and Wellness Programs

Qualifications

• 2+ years of leadership experience in visual merchandising required.
• Strong ability to communicate and lead teams from conception to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee visual merchandising strategy for new store openings.
• Provide ongoing visual merchandising direction for retail spaces.
• Train and develop team members in visual merchandising best practices.

Skills

Visual Merchandising

Leadership

Creative Thinking

Communication

Fashion Trends Awareness

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Merchandising or related field

Tools

Visual Presentation Tools

Budget Management Software

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Area Visual Manager (Ottawa)

Location: Ottawa, ON (CF Rideau Centre/Bayshore Shopping Centre)

Reporting to: Area Manager (Store) / Area Manager (VMD)

Key contacts

1. Internal: Store Management Team, Store Support Functions and Store Associates
2. External: Customers

About UNIQLO

UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co. (FR), a global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under multiple brands including: GU, Theory, Helmut Lang, PLST (Plus T), COMPTOIR DES COTONNIERS, PRINCESSE TAM TAM, and UNIQLO. FR is currently among the world’s top three largest apparel retail companies and UNIQLO, its pillar, is considered Japan’s leading specialty retailer. With an operation spanning over 2300 stores worldwide in more than 25 countries and regions, UNIQLO is driven by its LifeWear concept for ultimate everyday clothes, offering unique products made from high-quality, highly functional materials, at affordable prices.

UNIQLO proactively seeks to minimize the environmental impact of our businesses through the development of recycle-oriented products while continuing to offer people all over the world the joy, happiness, and satisfaction of wearing truly great clothes that embody our corporate philosophy: Changing clothes. Changing conventional wisdom. Change the world.

At UNIQLO, we are committed to providing our employees with enriching and challenging opportunities where achievements and personal growth are acknowledged and rewarded. We are dedicated to offering our employees training, performance-based increases, and unlimited growth opportunities. If you are an ambitious, hard-working individual who welcomes new challenges, have a drive for success, and embrace the responsibility of leadership—then you belong at UNIQLO!

Overall Position Overview

The Assistant Area Visual Manager will oversee and lead the visual merchandising strategy, with a focus of new store openings and store operations. They will drive creativity and innovation through the delivery of UNIQLO’s in store visual merchandising. They will support with executing Visual Presentations within the store; including but not limited to, Styling, Props, and Displays. These actions are expected to be engaging, generate excitement, inspire, and attract customers, increase Sales while simultaneously communicating UNIQLO LIFEWEAR.

Solid understanding of UNIQLO, manages all basic operations and stores visuals in accordance with UNIQLO Rules, Policies, and Code of Conduct.

Job Description

• Provide regular, ongoing visual merchandising direction for all UNIQLO retail spaces in alignment with our corporate brand image.
• Set visual merchandising strategy to achieve corporate objectives.
• Establish best practices related to assortment display and placement, provide ongoing direction related to implementation of merchandise.
• Actively solicit feedback from Store Management and Store Operations teams providing direction to foster continuous improvement.
• Take part in planning of country wide window/in-store calendar based on company strategy.
• Conduct daily walk-through and provide creative inputs as it pertains to floor presentation, window display and product styling.
• Partner with and effectively influence the visual merchandising teams on seasonal range development based on an optimal store layout across each format.
• Create innovative interior product presentation concepts that drive positive KPI growth.
• Collaborate with marketing team to define all in-store communication.
• Manage headquarter graphic designer’s timelines, directives, production process, outside vendors and aligning all designs based on GHQ.
• Manage all weekly, monthly styling working with layout team and utilizing GHQ concepts based on monthly layout.
• Manage and create concepts for all window styling based on GHQ direction.
• Control department budgetary expenses.
• Train and develop team members.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Desired Skills and Experiences

• Minimum of 2+ years of leadership experience in visual merchandising with fashion forward apparel retailer.
• Exceptional leadership ability with keen eye for design and styling and demonstrated success in visual merchandising, innovation and implementation.
• Strong ability to communicate ideas and lead teams from conception to implementation.
• Ability to travel to various UNIQLO locations within Canada.
• Strong ability to influence, inspire and motivate teams.
• Innate talent for identifying and understanding current fashion/retail trends.
• Ability to think creatively and to understand scale and compositions in visual techniques.
• Ability to collaborate cross functionally to achieve brand visions in stores.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and contribute ideas.
• Ability to adapt to a challenging and fast paced environment.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.

UNIQLO Canada is an equal opportunity employer. UNIQLO Canada encourages applications from all qualified candidates and accommodates persons with disabilities. Candidates that are selected for interviews should advise us if they require accommodation.