Visual Merchandising Project Manager 2 - Hybrid- Seattle, WA

Nordstrom; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordstrom, Inc. in Seattle seeks a Visual Merchandising Project Manager to lead high-impact VM initiatives from concept to completion, ensuring brand standards and customer experience.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams—Marketing PMO, Event Marketing, VM Design, Store Design, and In-Store Teams—while managing budgets, timelines, and vendor relationships to deliver successful store activations. The ideal candidate communicates clearly, drives results, and thrives in fast-moving

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project management for large-scale VM initiatives and events, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, execution, and post-project analysis.
• Serve as the primary liaison between internal teams (Marketing PMO, Event Marketing, VM Design, VM Planning, Store Design, and In-Store Teams) and external partners (vendors, brands, suppliers).
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, ensuring timely communication of updates, risks, and changes to all stakeholders.
• Oversee financial transactions, including budget management, purchase orders, vendor coordination, corporate card expenses, and monthly financial reconciliations.
• Manage multi-million-dollar project budgets and collaborate with Strategic Sourcing to negotiate cost-saving opportunities and optimize supply chain performance.
• Foster a collaborative team environment through cross-training and knowledge sharing across VMHQ teams.
• Facilitate regular project meetings to ensure transparency, accountability, and alignment across functions.
• Create and distribute clear, concise project documentation, including timelines, briefs, and recaps for internal teams and external partners.
• Act as the central point of contact for all project-related inquiries, providing timely responses and proactive issue resolution.
• Translate complex project details into actionable guidance for in-store teams, ensuring successful execution.
• Escalate risks, delays, or scope changes to leadership with clarity and well-developed contingency plans.
• Tailor communication styles to different audiences, ensuring effective engagement with working groups, in-store teams, senior leadership, and external vendors.

Job description

Job Description

The Visual Merchandising (VM) Project Manager plays a key leadership role within the Store Environment Team, overseeing the execution of high-impact visual merchandising initiatives across Nordstrom Stores. This position drives complex, cross-functional projects from concept to completion, ensuring alignment with brand standards, business objectives, and customer experience enhancements. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who drives results through clear, direct communication, leads outcome-focused meetings, and thrives in fast-changing environments while collaborating across teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead end-to-end project management for large-scale VM initiatives and events, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, execution, and post-project analysis.
• Serve as the primary liaison between internal teams (Marketing PMO, Event Marketing, VM Design, VM Planning, Store Design, and In-Store Teams) and external partners (vendors, brands, suppliers).

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, ensuring timely communication of updates, risks, and changes to all stakeholders.
• Oversee financial transactions, including budget management, purchase orders, vendor coordination, corporate card expenses, and monthly financial reconciliations.
• Manage multi-million-dollar project budgets and collaborate with Strategic Sourcing to negotiate cost-saving opportunities and optimize supply chain performance.
• Foster a collaborative team environment through cross-training and knowledge sharing across VMHQ teams.
• Facilitate regular project meetings to ensure transparency, accountability, and alignment across functions.
• Create and distribute clear, concise project documentation, including timelines, briefs, and recaps for internal teams and external partners.
• Act as the central point of contact for all project-related inquiries, providing timely responses and proactive issue resolution.
• Translate complex project details into actionable guidance for in-store teams, ensuring successful execution.
• Escalate risks, delays, or scope changes to leadership with clarity and well-developed contingency plans.
• Tailor communication styles to different audiences, ensuring effective engagement with working groups, in-store teams, senior leadership, and external vendors.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Drive Results: Emphasizes the importance of achieving results; challenges poor outcomes or unproductive behaviors. Focuses on overcoming obstacles and delivering results through the team.
• Builds Trust: Gains trust by showing consistency between what is said and what is done. Gains trust by showing consistency between what is said and what is done.
• Communicates Effectively: Takes steps to ensure effective communication between individuals and teams. Pays attention to others’ input and perspectives; ask questions and summarizes input to confirm understanding.
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