Senior Visual Merchandising Manager

adidas; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail brand is seeking a Senior Visual Merchandising Manager to oversee their flagship London store on Oxford Street. The role involves managing a high-performing team, ensuring visual excellence, and contributing to brand strategy, alongside travel and retail shift nuances. The position offers a competitive salary, performance bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Strong pension scheme

Performance related bonus

28 days holiday

Bupa health insurance

Generous Employee discount

Westfield Health cash plan

Qualifications

• Proven people manager with experience in large teams.
• Ability to inspire, motivate, and set goals for teams.
• Experience in retail management and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Manage a high-performing team of Visual Merchandisers.
• Deliver the business strategic plan for visual merchandising.
• Collaborate with cross-functional departments for implementation.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Planning

Visual Merchandising

Collaboration

Influencing

Job description

Flagship Senior Visual Merchandising Manager

The opportunity:

Are you ready for the most high-profile role within VM in London?

As our Senior Visual Merchandising Manager at adidas, you’ll manage one of the most globally important stores for our brand, based on the iconic Oxford Street, London.

You’ll need to be a proven people manager, inheriting a team of 4 direct reports, with a total team of 8. Stakeholder engagement is also a focus for you, managing relationships at all levels.

We’re looking for creative doers & natural problem solvers who’ll bring a solution-based mindset to our high performing team.

Fancy contributing towards driving our brand strategy, winning consumers at the point of purchase with premium visual excellence? Read on.

Things to consider before you apply:

• You may need to travel – so the ability / desire to do this is important
• Retail includes working nights and away on projects, we’d rather you know this & consider this at the very start of your process with us.
• We need a true people leader, who can inspire, motivate and set clear goals for our VM team, if you’re not passionate about people, this might not be the role for you
• There’ll also be support for planning / coordinating VM activities outside of the Flagship eg showroom resets, events, store openings or and store remodels.

What you’ll do:

• You’ll take ownership of managing an extremely high-performing team of Visual Merchandisers to deliver an amazing consumer journey through VM and Styling, all with the aim of bringing our Brand to life & converting consumers at the point of purchase.
• You’ll lead the Visual Merchandising team to deliver the business strategic plan and contribute to our commercial targets
• Execute the Visual Merchandising standards according to the VM calendar
• Collaborate with cross-functional departments to ensure we’re adopting the correct use, implementation & presentation of product packages, store fittings, in-store communication material, campaigns and VM tools.
• Influence and negotiate with all key business partners for all VM subjects, considering key product launches, ensuring consistency within best practice guidelines to provide a leading brand experience for all customers.
• Develop best practice, standards and operational plans to support the implementation of Visual Merchandising standards and guidelines.
• Leverage tools and programs for planning of existing or new stores or brand spaces (e.g. stocking and space planning tools).

Benefits:

• Strong pension scheme
• Performance related bonus (store bonus received per month)
• 28 days holiday
• Bupa health insurance
• Generous Employee discount
• Westfield Health cash plan

We'd love to hear from you, please hit apply now before our closing date of 30.06.25

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we may close our advert early, so please apply before missing out.