Premium Visual Merchandiser & Brand Champion (Hybrid)

Barbour; South Shields; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Staff Discount

Staff Shop

25 days holiday

Hybrid & flexible working

Free onsite parking

Job summary

Barbour in the United Kingdom is seeking a Visual Merchandiser & Brand Champion to maintain a consistent, elevated visual identity across Barbour stores and partner locations, reflecting Barbour’s heritage and premium positioning.

This role includes rollout of window campaigns, seasonal pop-ups, brand events & partner activations, in-store merchandising standards, team training, and ongoing support of UK-wide VM guidelines to ensure best-in-class presentation.

Qualifications

• Experience in multi-store visual merchandising for premium/heritage brands.
• Proven ability to manage teams and projects.
• Strong understanding of customer journey, fixture layouts and in-store storytelling.
• Excellent organisation, time management and communication.
• Willingness to travel UK-wide, including overnight stays.

Responsibilities

• Based remotely with regular daily travel across the Northern region and Scotland to ensure consistent, high-quality execution of visual merchandising standards across Barbour-owned stores, partner stores, wholesale accounts, concessions, and shop-in-shops.
• Support UK Marketing with seasonal pop-ups, events and activations, ensuring presentation ahead of launches in Newcastle and London.
• Conduct store audits, develop improvement plans, and follow up to ensure effective implementation.
• Lead workshops and guidelines with Area Managers, VM Brand Champions and Partner Stores.
• Localise global VM guidelines for doors, campaigns and product drops.

Skills

Multi-store VM

Team leadership

Customer journey

Fixture layouts

In-store storytelling

Organization

Time management

Communication

Travel UK & Ireland

Presentation skills

Tools

Outlook

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

Barbour in the United Kingdom is seeking a Visual Merchandiser & Brand Champion to maintain a consistent, elevated visual identity across Barbour stores and partner locations, reflecting Barbour’s heritage and premium positioning.

This role includes rollout of window campaigns, seasonal pop-ups, brand events & partner activations, in-store merchandising standards, team training, and ongoing support of UK-wide VM guidelines to ensure best-in-class presentation.