Regional Visual Manager - Calgary

Canadian Tire Corporation; Calgary; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Retirement programs

Performance incentives

Job summary

SportChek is seeking a Visual Merchandising Specialist to drive the company’s in-store presentation and brand standards. You will partner with head office and store teams to ensure alignment and effective execution of visual directions.

Travel across the region to oversee pre-opening merchandising, coach teams, and build action plans that improve presentation and sales performance across the store network.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Visual Merchandising or Design or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of one year of direct experience in visual merchandising.
• Strong understanding of store operations.
• Ability to travel region to store locations for pre-opening merchandising and site visits.

Responsibilities

• Develop and promote SportChek’s visual merchandising vision and standards.
• Coordinate with head office and store teams to communicate and execute standards.
• Coach and train initiatives to elevate customer experience and drive category growth.
• Lead regional visual merchandising inquiries and provide solutions.
• Monitor regional trends and ensure consistency across regions.
• Support store openings and revitalizations with visual plans.

Skills

Visual merchandising

Communication

Collaboration

Travel readiness

Education

Diploma in Visual Merchandising or Design

Job description

What you’ll do

• Develop a clear understanding of SportChek’s visual merchandising vision and standards.

• Partnering with head office and store teams to ensure corporate merchandising standards are communicated and successfully executed.

• Coach, train and validate key initiatives and strategies elevating the customer experience and category growth to impact sales performance across the store network.

• Reinforce and validate merchandising direction, focusing on signage and robust merchandising tactics to drive sell through and inventory turns.

• Ensure ad compliance and set-up.

• Act as the lead contact for the region related to visual merchandising questions or issues and provide visual solutions.

• Focus on store performance building action plans into weekly store visits through the effective use of the RVM store visit report, photo validation and task management to positively impact store performance and presentation increasing sales performance across the store network.

• Work collaboratively with the District Manager’s to develop action plans to deliver on the visual strategy instore.

• Build common practices ensuring consistency of execution across all regions.

• Support and build action plans for store teams related to store openings and revitalizations.

• Ensure photos are collected from the region for key set ups, initiatives, seasonal changeovers and store openings.

• Support visual merchandising research or test initiatives.

• Monitor region for visual merchandising trends.

• Understand trends and developments in the field of visual merchandising.

• Promote a positive, solution focused store culture.

What you bring

• A Diploma in Visual Merchandising or Design or equivalent experience.

• Minimum of one year of direct experience in visual merchandising.

• Strong understanding of store operations.

• A vehicle as the position requires travel from store-to-store within the region. You may also be required to travel to a new store location to oversee the pre-opening merchandising plan.

• Passion for retail and visual merchandising

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Ability to implement change in a positive, proactive manner.

• Aptitude for collaboration and developing strong relationships.

Compensation

We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
• Performance incentives
• Other perks to support your well-being
• Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Our typical hiring range is between 50,000 and 65,000. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, store size and market location, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements.

About Us

At Sport Chek, we want to find what moves you, and help build your career from there. As Canada’s destination for footwear, apparel, and sporting goods; we believe that sport and activity has the power to help shape your style, your relationships, and your mind. Along with colleagues across the Canadian Tire family of companies, you’ll be a part of a collaborative network of like-minded individuals who draw on their collective experience to best serve customers across all banners from coast-to-coast. Join us, where there’s a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.