Manager, Visual Merchandising & Brand Standards

The Pittsburgh Paints Company; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Pittsburgh Paints Company is seeking a Manager of Visual Merchandising and Brand Standards to own the in-store customer experience across the Dulux store network. You will lead merchandising, planograms, fixtures, signage, and brand presentation to ensure a consistent, modern, and commercially effective retail experience.

Collaborating with Marketing, Operations, and Sales, you will develop strategies to improve customer engagement, store productivity, and brand consistency, serving as the

Qualifications

• 3-7+ years of experience in retail merchandising/visual presentation across multiple stores.
• Demonstrated ownership of planograms across a store network with tiering by format.
• Willingness to travel across Canada for store visits and support.
• Bilingual English/French required for Quebec store base.
• Proficiency with CAD, SketchUp, or Adobe Creative Suite for layouts and concept communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain store format standards, layout, archetypes, and merchandising guidelines across the Dulux store network.
• Develop and maintain store sales floor, including sundries merchandising and customer flow.
• Optimize the sales floor to maximize customer movement, product visibility, and attachment selling.
• Lead fixture standards and seasonal presentation areas across locations.
• Owns the reset calendar and ensures seasonal/category resets with minimal disruption.
• Build and maintain planograms for all in-store categories in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Define shelf presentation standards including signage, facings, and endcaps.
• Train store teams on presentation standards and reset execution.
• Collaborate with Marketing to translate campaigns into in-store presentation packages.

Skills

Planograms

Visual merchandising

Store planning

CAD

SketchUp

Bilingual EN/FR

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Manager, Visual Merchandising & Brand Standards

TheManager, Visual Merchandising and Brand Standardswill own the in-store customer experience across the Dulux store network. This roleis responsible forstore sales floor, planograms, fixture standards, signage, visual merchandising, and brand presentation, ensuring a consistent, modern, and commercially effective customer experience across all locations.

Working closely with Sundries Category Manager, Operations, Marketing, Sales, this role develops and executes merchandising strategies that improve customer engagement, attachment selling, store productivity, and brand consistency. The position is the operational and creative counterpart to the Sundries Category Manager, who owns assortment and vendor relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define andmaintainstore format standards, store sales floor layout, archetypes, and merchandising guidelines across the Dulux store network.
• Develop andmaintainstore sales floor, including sundries merchandising, customer traffic flow, service counter front design, and overall retail experience standards
• Optimizestore sales floor to maximize customer flow, product visibility, attachment selling, and operational efficiency.
• Define andmaintainfixture standards, including gondolas, endcaps, service counters, promotional displays, and seasonal presentation areas.
• Lead merchandising requirements for store openings, relocations, remodels, and refresh projects.
• Build andmaintainplanograms for all in-store categories, tiered by store format and trade mix, in partnership with the Sundries Category Manager and Store Operations team.
• Own the reset calendar: plan, schedule, communicate, andvalidateseasonal and category resets across the network with minimal disruption to store selling hours.
• Define shelf-level presentation standards including facings logic, price and information signage, endcap and feature bay programs, and impulse/counter placement.
• Maintain the merchandising library and standards: shelving, pegboard, colour displays, gondola specs, and the approved vendor display program.
• Partner with the Director of Real Estate and Store Development to integrate merchandising requirements into store development, relocations, and capital projects.
• Conduct store visits to assess compliance, coach teams, andidentifymerchandising opportunities.
• Partner with Regional Operations Managers and Store Managers to drive consistent execution of merchandising standards.
• Train store teams and new managers on presentation standards, reset execution, and day-to-day store experience management
• Collaborate with the Sundries Category Manager to support assortment performance and category growthobjectives.
• Partner with Dulux Marketing andassistin translating national marketing and promotional campaigns into executable in-store presentation packages.
• Partner with Dulux Marketing to own in-store signage standards and the brand environment; any customer walking into a Dulux store gets a consistent experience, adapted to the respective customer profile of the location
• Provide hands-on support for priority store openings, relocations, renovations, and merchandising resets.
• Work with Finance to Track sales per linear foot, merchandising productivity, and category performance toidentifyimprovement opportunities.
• Establish andmaintainmerchandising performance metrics, compliance reporting, presentation scorecards, and key performance indicators (e.g., compliance, sales per linear foot, and category sell-through performance).
• Design and run structured pilots using test store groups to justify potential presentation investment
• Monitor planogram compliance, visual execution standards, category performance, and attachment-selling effectiveness.
• Maintain alignment between merchandising strategy, operational requirements, and customer experienceobjectives.
• Prepare presentations, reports, merchandising strategies, and capital recommendations for leadership review.
• Support business planning related to store refreshes, fixture investments, signage programs, and merchandising initiatives.

Qualifications:

• 3-7+ years of experience in retail merchandise presentation, space planning, store planning, or visual merchandising in a multi-store environment
• Demonstrated ownership of planograms across a network, including tiering / segmentation by store formats and/or customer profiles
• Willingness to travel as needed across Canada including regular store visits and support
• Bilingual (English/French) given the Quebec store base.
• Working knowledge of CAD, SketchUp, or Adobe Creative Suite for layout and concept communication.
• Experience launching a new store format or brand refresh across an existing network.

We don't use AI in our recruitment process. All hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team.

CIL Participates in a Fixed and Variable Rate (FAVR) program.With FAVR, you drive your own car and receive tax-free reimbursements that cover both fixed costs (like insurance) and variable costs (like gas), giving you more choice and equity in your vehicle.

Applicants must be authorized to work in Canada without employment-based visa sponsorship (now or in the future). This includes WP, LMIA, TFWP, IMP, PGWP, CUSMA, GTS, OWP, BOWP, SOWP or any other employment-based visas).

The base salary range for this position is $70,000 to $80,000 with annual bonus.