[2025] LOA - UKI - Senior Visual Merchandising Manager - CPD

L'oreal Usa; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global beauty company in the UK is seeking an experienced visual merchandising leader to architect and execute merchandising strategies for iconic retail projects. The ideal candidate will manage significant budgets and cultivate strategic partnerships while ensuring innovative and sustainable retail solutions. Join a dynamic team and enjoy industry-leading benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Discounts on products

Private medical and dental insurance

Discounted gym memberships

Enhanced family leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience in visual merchandising and retail design within a fast-paced retail environment.
• Strong understanding of budgeting and cost efficiency in merchandising.
• Ability to develop and execute comprehensive brand strategies.

Responsibilities

• Architect and execute a visual merchandising strategy for brand presence.
• Drive retail transformations and conceptualize innovative fixture designs.
• Manage significant CAPEX and promotional budgets for merchandising initiatives.

Skills

Visual merchandising

Project management

Stakeholder management

Retail design

Negotiation

Budgeting and CAPEX management

Job description

A DAY IN THE LIFE

• Pioneering Brand VM Strategy: Architect and execute our overarching visual merchandising strategy for both new product launches and ongoing brand presence, ensuring a cohesive and compelling aesthetic that captivates consumers and drives engagement.
• Leading Iconic Retail Projects: Drive the end-to-end vision for our most significant retail transformations, particularly Boots Waterloo and major grocery partners. This includes conceptualizing cutting-edge permanent and semi-permanent fixture designs that redefine beauty retail.
• Crafting Immersive Visual Narratives: Develop impactful artwork and engaging planograms that not only highlight our product portfolio but also tell a compelling brand story, creating an unforgettable shopping journey.

Driving Strategic Impact & Cross-Functional Excellence

• Cultivating Strategic Partnerships: Act as a key liaison and negotiator with major retailers, third-party agencies, and internal DMI/Zone contacts, ensuring seamless execution of visual merchandising initiatives and securing prime retail real estate.
• Championing Internal Collaboration: Influence and manage internal stakeholders across various departments, from marketing to supply chain, ensuring alignment and support for your innovative retail projects.
• Leading Sustainability Integration: Drive our commitment to sustainability within merchandising, exploring and implementing eco-conscious materials and practices in all retail design and execution.
• Spearheading CMI & Team Development: Collaborate on CMI projects to leverage insights and actively contribute to the growth and development of our merchandising capabilities, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation within the team.

Optimising Performance & Operational Prowess

• Strategic Budget Management: Oversee and optimize significant CAPEX and promotional budgets, ensuring maximum return on investment for all visual merchandising initiatives.
• Enhancing Merchandising Efficiency: Serve as the go-to expert for merchandising cost efficiency, identifying and implementing innovative solutions in new tenders and retail projects.
• Overseeing Estate Transformations: Lead complex estate changes, rebalances, and uplifts, ensuring strategic placement and optimal performance of all retail assets.
• Ensuring Flawless Aftermarket Support: Manage the entire lifecycle of our retail displays, from efficient stand maintenance and parts ordering with retailers to implementing closed-loop recycling and end-of-life analysis for assets.

WHO YOU ARE

• Proven experience in visual merchandising, retail design, and project management within a fast-paced retail or beauty environment, specifically involving permanent and semi-permanent fixtures.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, CAPEX management, and cost efficiency in merchandising projects.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute comprehensive brand VM and promotional strategies.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and negotiation skills, with experience managing relationships with retailers, agencies, DMI/Zone contacts, and internal teams.
• Proficiency in retail operations, including planogramming, installation management, stock management, ordering, forecasting, and after-sales support.
• A track record of effective team development and leadership, with the ability to manage cross-functional projects.

WHAT WE OFFER

Our industry-leading award-winning benefits package shows how much we value our people. We know they're at the heart of L'Oréal's success, so we offer a fair and competitive package to help you thrive.

Enjoy perks like money-saving offers, free mortgage advice, share options and an enhanced pension plan. Love our brands? You'll get up to 60% off iconic names like YSL, CeraVe, Armani, Kiehl's and Garnier! Because health matters, we offer private medical and dental insurance, discounted gym memberships, and onsite mental health support. We also provide enhanced family leave for all and up to 4 weeks of paid fertility leave, so you can prioritise what matters most.

Learning is in our DNA at L'Oréal. We'll help you master your role, build skills, and access top-notch leadership programs and monthly expert talks. And there's lots more too!

WHO WE ARE

L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €29 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet. Experience the excitement of agility to shape the future of beauty; where diversity and purpose come together to create meaningful impact.

In the L'Oréal Consumers Products Division, our mission is to democratize the best of beauty, which means bringing beauty to all. And for us, beauty must be sustainable. The Consumer Product Divisions holds the world’s #1 beauty brand with L’Oréal Paris, the #1 makeup brand with Maybelline New York, the #1 natural brand with Garnier, and NYX Professional Makeup. Beyond our four iconic global brands, we have a unique brand portfolio including others like Essie and Carols Daughter.

HOW WE RECRUIT

At L’Oréal, we take pride in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and their contributions are valued. When we recruit, hire, train, promote or engage in any other employment practice, we are committed to being an inclusive employer regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, socioeconomic status, medical condition or disability, or any other protected status. When we look for talent, we welcome difference - different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and perspectives. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.

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