Visual Merchandising Project Manager

Facebook; New York (NY); On-site; USD 116,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Visual Merchandising Project Manager to enhance retail experiences for their cutting-edge products. In this dynamic role, you will develop and implement global retail display concepts that captivate customers and drive engagement. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that all merchandising components are executed on time and within budget. Your keen attention to detail and strategic mindset will be essential in optimizing existing displays and designing new experiences for future products. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about creating compelling retail experiences, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in retail displays, either brand or vendor side.
• Proven ability to translate shopper experiences into physical designs.

Responsibilities

• Manage a large volume of merchandising projects with tight deadlines.
• Collaborate with marketing and creative teams for display programs.

Skills

Visual Merchandising

Project Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Attention to Detail

Budget Management

Education

BA/BS in Business

BA/BS in Graphic Design

Job description

**Summary:**

Meta is looking for a Reality Labs (RL) Visual Merchandising Project Manager. This person will be responsible for developing global retail display concepts in partnership with retail creative that help bring Meta products to life in physical retail. This role plays an instrumental part in contributing to the RL vision for our global customers to find, learn and experience RL products through our various retail channels. This person needs to have a keen sensibility when it comes to working through everything related to merchandising, including a balancing act between the brand, 3rd party retail needs, limitations on retail technology & product experience and overarching timelines. They are responsible for translating Meta strategic product and sales initiatives into compelling merchandising programs that create an best in class customer experience. The primary role of the VM Project Manager is to ensure that all visual merchandising components including fixtures, demo units, graphics and display technologies are designed and produced on brand, on budget, and on time to meet our channel marketing needs. There will be continued focus on optimizing our existing displays as well as a large emphasis on designing experiences for future unreleased Meta products that are in the roadmap, establishing global design requirements including concepting / engineering / prototyping to enable the local regional teams to take that guidance for production. This role is expected to partner with Meta retail creative as well as retail tech, product marketing and the regional Meta physical merchandising teams to design, engineer and prototype displays for RL products based on channel & retailer needs. The VM Project Manager must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment working collaboratively across a wide variety of cross functional partners internally and externally.

**Required Skills:**

Visual Merchandising Project Manager Responsibilities:

1. Prioritize a large volume of projects with tight deadlines to meet critical dates for refresh / launch globally

2. Partner closely with Channel Marketing, Product Marketing, Category and Creative to develop comprehensive display programs across a variety of retailer footprints. This includes building out a merchandising playbooks that can be handed off to the regional physical merchandising teams for localization and production

3. Manage RFQ / RFPs with external vendors or agencies

4. Be involved in research pertaining to merchandising that includes but not limited to shopper journey and display evaluations to then leverage data to drive merchandising evolution

5. Build highly detailed schedules for a variety of physical merchandising initiatives (ranging from product launch to simple temporary elements) and track them from inception to deployment while informing cross functional partners along the way

6. Partner closely with product marketing and retail tech / engineering teams to understand some of the parameters around product experience to incorporate into the physical display requirements

7. Follow established brand style guidelines when working with display concepts, graphics and any physical merch assets

8. Review revisions and comments for multiple projects simultaneously

9. Review engineering, prototypes, digital and printed proofs for all programs with a keen eye for detail

10. Understand fixture production processes in order to properly prepare workback schedules and deliverables with the broader organization. Establish global processes for sharing design / engineering with regional teams and vendors

11. Understand a variety of manufacturing processes as well as familiarity with retail security practices (i.e- tethers, alarms etc.)

12. Manage global design budgets including processing quotes & purchase orders for vendors. Negotiate with suppliers on pricing

**Minimum Qualifications:**

Minimum Qualifications:

13. 5+ years of professional experience (on either the brand side of retail displays or the vendor side of retail displays)

14. Proven experience understanding the shopper experiences and how to translate that into physical design requirements

15. Experience sharing program / project updates across broad teams and organizations - transparency is key within the Meta and the experience to communicate, clear + concise cross functionally at all levels

16. Experiences of developing processes, or when processes are in place, streamlining and making them more efficient and scalable

17. Demonstrated high level of accuracy and attention to detail with experience to track and articulate the intricacies of complex display programs

18. Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors

19. Highly effective at managing conflict. Knows how to address issues between stakeholders swiftly in order to maintain a positive team spirit that is consistent with Meta values

20. Effective interpersonal & communication skills, approachable and flexible

21. Understand how to create and manage project and budget trackers

**Preferred Qualifications:**

Preferred Qualifications:

22. BA/BS degree in Business, Graphic Design or a related field

23. Familiarity with global retail partners and their guidelines / processes

24. Experience within a brand executing a direct-to-consumer physical retail strategy

25. Prior history of developing and building retail displays within the consumer electronics categories

26. Experience in bringing projects from concept stage through design, development, and execution

27. Experience in bringing new products to life

28. Experience maintaining budgets and fiscal responsibility

29. Knowledge of presentation decks for executives and partners

**Public Compensation:**

$116,000/year to $166,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

**Industry:** Internet

**Equal Opportunity:**

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