Regional Visual Merchandising Leader

Sport Chek; Calgary; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and retirement

Performance incentives

Product discounts

Job summary

Sport Chek in Canada is seeking a Visual Merchandising Lead to develop and maintain our visual standards across the store network, liaising with head office and field teams to ensure consistent execution.

You will coach and validate initiatives, optimize signage and merchandising tactics to improve sell-through and inventory turns, while supporting store openings and revitalizations and collecting regional visuals.

Qualifications

• 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 is required for travel between stores within the region.
• Passion for retail and visual merchandising.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Aptitude for collaboration and developing strong relationships.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Visual merchandising

Communication skills

Collaboration

Store operations understanding

Education

Diploma in Visual Merchandising or Design

Job description

Sport Chek in Canada is seeking a Visual Merchandising Lead to develop and maintain our visual standards across the store network, liaising with head office and field teams to ensure consistent execution.

You will coach and validate initiatives, optimize signage and merchandising tactics to improve sell-through and inventory turns, while supporting store openings and revitalizations and collecting regional visuals.