Visual Merchandising & Store Strategy Lead

ALO; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

ALO Wellness Club membership

Medical, dental and vision options

401K with company matching

Monthly Store Incentives

Clothing Allowance

Free yoga classes

Job summary

ALO seeks a Visual Manager to lead store visual and product strategy. You will drive visual execution, product placement, and staffing alignment to keep the store customer-ready. The role blends planning, analysis, and hands-on merchandising on the sales floor and back of house.

As part of the store leadership team, you’ll manage visual standards, schedules, and KPIs while coaching a Visual team and partnering with the General/Store Manager to deliver on budgets and business priorities.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of retail or related industry leadership experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Agile with the ability to handle multiple tasks in a changing environment.
• Independent work ethic, time management skills, and personal accountability.
• Aligns with and embodies ALO’s Guiding Principles.
• Requires constant movement in and around all areas of store.
• Ability to lift, push, carry or otherwise move up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to stand and move for an entire shift.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support execution of key operational and visual processes.
• Champion strong visual standards for the salesfloor by leveraging business performance data.
• Lead strategic product presentation and merchandising by ensuring product recovery, restock, destock, and making visual merchandising change in accordance with directive and partnership of General/Store Manager.
• Effectively plans Visual floor changes through payroll management and adapting visual support to the needs of the business.
• Own visual direction from planning through executing to meeting company expectations, budgets, timeline.
• Utilizes reporting tools in partnership with management to identify business opportunities with product placement, outfitting, and stock levels.
• Represent the business in meetings and on conference calls, in partnership with General Manager.
• Review, Monitor and partner with General Manager to manage the budget, reporting and other business data; including metrics and inform planning processes.
• Future planning workflow business needs to protect optimal performance.
• Ensure that the Visual team exudes ALO's mission and guiding principles to effectively communicate to our guests who we are, what we do and why we do what we do.
• Leads a team through accountability, continuous coaching, development of talent, and elevating effective communication.
• Establish internal & external pipeline through succession planning and recruitment strategy.
• Oversees the execution of deliverables on sales floor, achieving KPI’s, while protecting operational efficiency and visual sets.
• Collaborates and implements General/Store Manager’s vision and work cross-functionally with business partners to achieve visual and sales floor KPI’s.
• Demonstrate an ability to navigate the organization with a balance of business need and brand culture.

Skills

Retail leadership

Interpersonal communication

Agile

Time management

Team leadership

Tools

MS Office

Job description

ALO seeks a Visual Manager to lead store visual and product strategy. You will drive visual execution, product placement, and staffing alignment to keep the store customer-ready. The role blends planning, analysis, and hands-on merchandising on the sales floor and back of house.

As part of the store leadership team, you’ll manage visual standards, schedules, and KPIs while coaching a Visual team and partnering with the General/Store Manager to deliver on budgets and business priorities.