Manager, Global Styling, E-Commerce

Concorde network B.V; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite gym and fitness classes

Wellbeing programs on campus

Extensive campus facilities and dining

PVH University career development

Job summary

PVH Corp. is seeking a Manager, Global Styling, E-Commerce for Tommy Studios in Amsterdam. You will lead a team of full-time and freelance stylists to create high-volume PDP content that reflects brand identity while driving conversion across campaigns.

You’ll guide styling, dressing and retouch outputs, collaborate with Marketing and Production, and mentor a large creative team to deliver consistent, aspirational visuals in a fast-paced studio environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion, Styling, Visual Communications or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience managing and executing fashion styling in a high volume, high quality studio.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a leadership role managing a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of stylists, dressers and freelancers to deliver elevated PDP content.
• Ensure output aligns with brand guidelines and visual standards for e-commerce.
• Collaborate with Marketing, E-Commerce and Production to optimize workflows and campaigns.
• Balance quality, time, and cost while driving creative, strategic styling across campaigns.

Skills

Fashion styling

Team leadership

Project management

Creative direction

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Fashion, Styling, Visual Communications or related field

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Microsoft Office

Teams

Keynote

Creative Force

Job description

Be part of an iconic story.

TOMMY HILFIGER is one of the world’s most recognized global lifestyle brands, confidently welcoming and inspiring consumers since 1985. Originally established in New York City and infused with the vibrant spirit of Americana, to create the modern uniform of accessible luxury. The TOMMY HILFIGER brands consist of TOMMY HILFIGER and TOMMY JEANS, complemented by a range of licensed product categories that extend the brand lifestyle across generations, geographies, activities and occasions. Tommy Hilfiger’s global marketing approach and communication strategy taps into culture through the world of F.A.M.E.S.: the people, organizations and ideas boldly driving the future of Fashion, Art, Music, Entertainment and Sport. Major global campaigns, sponsorship platforms, and disruptive activations with world-class athletes, musicians and entertainers bring a constant source of energy and inspiration to the brand. Immerse yourself in TOMMY HILFIGER here! (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok)

The Studio

Tommy Studios produces and delivers over 225,000 image assets each year for both Tommy Hilfiger, primarily for the brands’ global e-commerce websites for EMEA, APAC and North America. It conducts an average of 7 simultaneous; daily productions for 93% of working days within a year, amounting to approximately 1644 productions per annum. From its new state-of-the-art 23,500 sq. ft. facility in Amsterdam, Tommy Studios strives to blend operational excellence with creative elevation to ensure best-in-class digital fashion consumer experiences, every day. Located in the Houthavens neighborhood of Amsterdam, the studio includes 9 fully equipped e-commerce bays running on the latest technology, 2 editorial bays with drive-in capacity, a still-life studio, equipment room, sample management area, cafe with full menu, kitchen, offices, meeting rooms and chill-out spaces.

The Team

This role sits under the creative branch of Tommy Studios, part of the Global Brand Marketing structure that defines and executes the brand strategy and creative content for Tommy Hilfiger globally. At Tommy Studios, approximately 25–30 full time studio associates fulfill the operations (data and samples), production (planning and production), creative (imaging, styling and art direction) and asset delivery (post-production and regional accounts) departments. The studios manage and collaborate with over 300 freelance associates for content production. The productions range across still-life, style-out, on-model, video and artificial intelligence initiatives.

The Position

The Manager, Global Styling, E-Commerce role supports an operational environment to produce compelling content in high volume, engage through representing brand personality and visually inform in a consistent and accurate manner, to aspire and encourage conversion by the digital consumer.

The role bridges commercial and brand-aspirational values, serving as the global styling guardian for all studio-based product detail page (PDP) visual content. Governing still and moving assets from conception to delivery, the E-Commerce Global Styling Manager ensures consistent output, against brand guidelines, visually appealing, product focused, within daily productivity targets.

Through building strong relationships with the wider studio team, global stakeholders and freelance content creation crews, the role involves making informed decisions balancing a strategic approach, operational imperatives and creative considerations for content creation. On a daily a basis, the E-Commerce Global Styling Manager collaborates closely with the Imaging, Art Direction, Production and Casting Managers to optimise end-to-end processes and workflows. At the very heart of the role, is a visionary, creative, motivational, empathetic, organised and pragmatic leader. Steadfast and reliable, the core function is to inspire, guide, mentor and manage a team of freelance stylists and dressers and creatives, paving the way to yield elevated PDP content at scale.

Main Responsibilities (in collaboration with 1x other Manager, Global Styling, E-Commerce)

• Own and drive all aspects of styling output and execution of Tommy Studios, focusing on guidelines, photography, videography, still-life and artificial intelligence productions for product detail page content and capsules.
• Responsible for bridging the cohesive, on-brand and elevated output between:
  • Brand Styling Direction and Guidelines.
  • Seasonal Styling Direction and Guidelines.
  • Style-out/ Pre-Styling.
  • Outfit Allocation.
  • On-Set Dressing.
  • Still-Life Styling.
  • Artificial Intelligence/ Videography Styling.
  • Styling and Dressing Retouching.
• Ensure high-quality styling output and adherence to the brand’s visual standards and delivers against the brief.
• Develop, update and communicate styling, dressing, outfit allocation and retouch output guidelines.
• Collaborate with brand Styling Director, marketing, commercial, and production teams to infuse campaign styling, the ‘style enthusiasts’ consumer profile and branding to digital product detail page content.
• Inspire the styling team to produce work that elevates the brand, with close consideration for the consumer journey to drive conversion through aspiration.
• Lead, manage, mentor, and empower a team of 1x full time stylist, a pool of 5–10 freelance stylists, and a pool of 70–80 freelance dressers, providing clear feedback and guidance and set the creative quality bar.
• Build, coach, trial, train, feedback and oversee freelance crew comprising of Stylists, Dresser 1s, Dresser 2,s Tailors and Rail Preparation teams.
• Host seasonal kick offs, briefings, training and workshops to full time and freelance associates.
• Foster a collaborative and dynamic work environment that encourages new ideas and professional growth.
• Work closely with Marketing, E-Commerce, Business Units departments and functions relating to imaging, art direction, casting and consumer insights to align creative efforts with overall business objectives.
• Work with the Operations & Production team to ensure the creative process is productive to meet time and cost parameters.
• Foster the use of AI tools for content creation and output.
• Test and drive new e-commerce PDP creative content treatments, techniques and methods utilizing latest resources, technology and tools.
• Research competitors, industry trends, regular reviews of e-commerce websites, to stay ahead of the best practices and provide real inspiration and excitement to our customers.
• Regular quality review, approval and rejection of imagery on Creative Force image management system and on-site imagery.

Expertise

• Having an exceptional visual styling eye, to ensure that our brand and product is represented in the most aspirational, memorable, accurate and brand aligned manner.
• Excellent at communicating ideas and visually articulating your intentions and vision, confidently presenting to leadership and stakeholders.
• Motivational, inspiring leader in guiding, mentoring and providing feedback to a well-seasoned creative team.
• Effective and efficient in balancing quality, time, cost, space and resources.
• Engaged to poised to address and resolve root issues, with solid project management skills.

Attributes

• Collaborative and a responsible team player able to encourage positive synergy and spirit.
• Strong fashion aesthetic and keen eye for judging photography, lighting, styling, casting, colour, body language and expressions.
• Highly detail-oriented and meticulously organized.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with outstanding multitasking abilities.
• Anticipatory and communicative, effective in bridging information and connecting dots.
• Brings passion, tenacity, curiosity and optimism to bring about change to the way we work. Enjoy coming up with creative solutions.
• Flexible and adaptable, adept at creating contingency plans and reacting quickly to changing priorities. Able to ruthlessly prioritize work by ranking business importance.
• Proactive, innovative and resourceful in with a mindset to make the impossible, possible.
• Brings no ego.

Experience Requisites

• Minimum of 7 years of experience managing and executing fashion styling in a high volume, high quality, fast-paced commercial studio.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in team management within a leadership role.
• Proven experience in e-commerce fashion styling is required.

Education & Skillset

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion, Styling, Visual Communications or related field.
• Business level fluency in spoken and written English.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Teams and Keynote.
• Advantageous with competency in Creative Force and interest in AI tools.

Your Wellbeing is Our Priority

In the heart of Amsterdam, PVH is home to the global headquarters of Tommy Hilfiger and the European offices of Calvin Klein.

• Wellbeing: exclusive onsite gym and fitness classes, personal training, meditation studio, sports clubs, in-house physio, and receive access to our nutritional and wellbeing programs
• Campus: extensive food and beverage offerings, top-notch restaurant, barista coffee bars, sky bar, monthly social events, weekly Thursday drinks, game nights, and campus-themed activities that will keep your social life busy
• Develop your career: whether you lead a team or contribute your own expertise, everyone is a leader at PVH. PVH University curates and delivers training programs for you to continuously develop your professional and personal goals
• Be at the forefront: stay closely connected to our brands, CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER, and be a part of seasonal market launches, sample sales and receive employee discounts!

Check out our Amsterdam Campus here.

About PVH:

We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.

One of PVH’s greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at PVH here.

PVH Corp. or its subsidiary (\"PVH\") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH is also committed to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential.