Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager, Luxe

Loreal; Greater London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on Lux brands

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Employee discounts

Learning & leadership programs

Annual leave

Job summary

L'Oréal Luxe seeks an Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager to lead luxury brand experiences in-store, translating strategy into premium visual concepts and coordinating cross-functional teams. You will manage activations, budgets, and supplier relationships to deliver exceptional retail theatre.

Based in London, you will oversee store openings and refits, ensuring flawless execution across top doors while maintaining cost discipline and strong stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• Experience translating luxury brand strategy into premium in-store experiences.
• Proven ability to manage multiple store refits, openings and launches.
• Strong cost awareness and PPP budget optimization.
• Excellent communication with external suppliers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead in-store activations and align POS with brand strategy.
• Spend 5–10% of time visiting top doors in London and report feedback.
• Coordinate logistics for new store openings, refits, and visual assets.
• Manage VM costs and PPP budgets in line with Group guidelines.
• Maintain critical databases (lightbox, VM calendar, counter master plan).
• Collaborate with Retail Design, Marketing and Zone teams for seamless O+O journeys.
• Foster strong supplier relationships for timely installation of animations.

Skills

Visual Merchandising

Budget management

Supplier coordination

Project coordination

Luxury retail

Job description

Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager, L'Oréal Luxe

Reporting to the Head of Visual Merchandising, this role leads visual merchandising initiatives to achieve retail excellence in-store, creating customer-centric experiences that elevate our luxury portfolio. You will play a key role in bringing brand strategy to life across stores, managing budgets, logistics, and supplier relationships to ensure seamless execution. This is an opportunity to combine a strong aesthetic eye with operational rigour, working closely with multi-functional teams to deliver exceptional in-store experiences.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

• Manage the implementation of in-store activations and modify POS navigation to align with brand strategy.
• Dedicate 5% to 10% of your time to directly overseeing and visiting top doors in London, providing detailed feedback reports.
• Coordinate logistics for new store openings, refits, and refurbishments, including ordering POS, testers, and visuals.
• Manage and control VM costs and PPP budgets, preventing overspending in accordance with Group guidelines.
• Maintain critical databases, ensuring the lightbox database, VM counter master plan, and VM calendar are always up to date.
• Partner closely with Retail Design, Marketing, and Zone teams to guarantee seamless O+O customer journeys
• Foster strong relationships with suppliers to ensure the correct, timely installation of animations.

Who You Are

• You understand luxury design concepts deeply and instinctively translate them into premium, eye-catching in-store experiences.
• You successfully coordinate multiple refits, store openings, and launch timelines simultaneously without missing a detail.
• You confidently optimise PPP budgets and maintain a highly cost-conscious mindset across all brand activities.
• You communicate with impact, easily aligning external suppliers with multi-functional internal teams.
• You closely follow luxury consumer behaviour and understand how to drive commercial success through exceptional in-store execution.
• You are collaborative, organised, and detail-oriented, with a strong aesthetic eye and a drive to challenge the status quo.

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 and our planet. Experience the excitement of agility to shape the future of beauty; where diversity and purpose come together to create meaningful impact.

L'Oréal Luxe is the global leader in luxury beauty and fine fragrance. With more than 35,000 luxury beauty experts across the globe, our mission is to craft the best luxury beauty products and experiences in fragrance, skincare and makeup. Through a portfolio of 25 aspirational and complementary brands, L'Oréal Luxe expresses its unique vision for luxury beauty: La Culture de l'Écart.

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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. You can let us know if you would like your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme within your application.