Trade & Visual Merchandising Manager at L'Oréal

L'Oréal; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sports card

Private health care

Life insurance

Pension package

Employee discount

Job summary

L'Oréal's Professional Products Division in Warszawa seeks a Trade & Visual Merchandising Manager to shape retail spaces and brand identity. You will bridge creative vision with commercial execution, coordinating budgets, planograms, and store launches with internal teams, agencies, and partners.

You will drive sustainable design and ensure high-quality fixtures and layouts across selective retail touchpoints, while enabling growth opportunities and career development within a global beauty

Qualifications

• Experience in trade and visual merchandising management.
• Ability to manage budgets and retail launches.
• Strong collaboration with agencies, vendors and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and control POSM and CAPEX budgets for retail projects.
• Execute international merchandising guidelines and support stores openings and renovations.
• Create planograms and temporary trade visibilities in line with activation managers.
• Organize furniture production tenders and manage vendor relations and logistics.
• Ensure retail design excellence through maintenance, installations, and store checks.
• Promote eco-design principles and sustainability in project execution.

Skills

Project Coordination

Budget management

Vendor management

Retail design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Trade & Visual Merchandising Manager at L'Oréal in Warszawa, MZ, PL

Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

About L'Oréal & PPD:

At L'Oréal, we live a culture of learning, personal development, and entrepreneurship. We offer our employees numerous opportunities to expand their skills, take responsibility, actively shape their careers, and thus have a positive impact. With our long history of innovation and our commitment to sustainability issues, we set standards for responsible entrepreneurship. Within L'Oréal, the Professional Products Division (PPD) is the world leader in professional beauty, empowering hair salons and stylists worldwide with a unique portfolio of iconic brands such as L'Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Redken, and Matrix. We shape the future of hair artistry through cutting-edge science, sustainability, and exceptional partnerships with salon professionals.

About the role:

Are you passionate about creating visually stunning, engaging, and high-impact retail spaces? As our new Trade and Visual Merchandising Manager within PPD, your key mission is to enhance the customer experience, drive sales, and strengthen brand identity across selective retail and offline touchpoints. You will bridge creative vision with flawless commercial execution, working hand-in-hand with internal teams, external agencies, and retail partners.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Coordination & Execution: Develop and control POSM and CAPEX budgets. Execute international merchandising guidelines, manage retail launches, store openings, and renovations, and create impactful planograms and temporary trade visibilities (podiums, displays) in alignment with O+O Activation Managers.
• Production, Agency & Vendor Management: Organize furniture production tenders, ensuring strict adherence to premium brand standards, quality, costs, and L'Oréal Group norms. Manage vendor relationships and activation logistics.
• Maintenance & Retail Excellence: Ensure retail design excellence through ongoing maintenance, technical "pick-ups" (odbiory techniczne), and first-time installations (including off-hour/night setups when required). Monitor planogram implementation and display quality via store-checks.
• Sustainability & Eco-Design: Drive the 'L'Oréal for the Future' program by ensuring materials follow eco-design principles, promoting recycling/reuse, and minimizing slow-moving or obsolete stock in cooperation with the POSM Transformation Leader.

Main KPIs:

• Perfect Visibility: Flawless merchandising roll-out, correct planograms, and continuous exposition quality.
• Operational Excellence: On-time coordination of POS openings, renovations, and product launches.
• Asset Control & Budget Adherence: Accurate tracking of fixed assets and strict budget management.
• Sustainability Impact: Successful implementation of Eco-Design guidelines in new projects.

What’s in it for you?

Are you ready to shape the beauty world of tomorrow? At L'Oréal, we empower you to lead your career, work with world-class professional brands, and join a passionate, collaborative team.

We offer:

• Wide benefits package including sports card, private health care, life insurance, pension package and internal boutique with a discount.
• Share in profit.
• Friendly and dynamic work atmosphere in diverse environment of the market beauty leader.
• Possibility to gain hands-on experience in ambitious projects.
• Mentor’s guidance and #Learningneverstops mindset: wide learning and e-learning package (more than 22k courses and educational resources).
• Community engaged in Sports and CSR activities.
• Plenty of opportunities to grow - cross-divisionally and functionally.
• Amazing, sustainable and functional office in the center of Warsaw.
• We are open for candidates with disabilities.