Visual Merchandising Specialist

A Visual Merchandising Specialist is a highly creative individual responsible for implementing and maintaining a visually appealing store environment that drives sales, attracts customers and enhances the overall shopping experience. They work with store layouts, product displays, signage, and promotional materials to ensure that the store aligns with the brand DNA and guidelines and effectively engages customers. He/ she reports directly to the Visual Merchandising Supervisor.

Key Responsibilities:

Retail Execution

• Prepares allocation of various campaigns, product highlights, promotion and other visual merchandising events.
• Facilitates and coordinates retail executions.
• Prepares display guidelines, perspectives and planograms.
• Handles VM related concerns of different retail sales channels- boutique, pop-ups and kiosks)
• Constructs and arranges product displays, ensuring that they are attractive, functional, and aligned with brand standards.
• Regularly updates product displays to keep them fresh, relevant, and in line with sales and seasonal trends.
• Ensures that displays are neatly organized, properly lit, and visually appealing to attract attention.
• Monitors selling display management
• Collaborates with other cross functional teams such as marketing, merchandising, procurement, admin, warehouse, sales and operations.

VM Compliance

• Ensures that all stores adhere to visual merchandising standards and brand guidelines through store audits and visits.
• Review, monitors and consolidates monthly store photo reports.
• Manages VM tools inventory

VM Innovation

• Stays updated on industry trends, consumer behavior, and competitor displays to keep store presentations fresh and innovative.
• Experiments with new techniques, technology, or design elements to continuously improve the customer experience.

Training and Development

• Training store associates/ brand ambassadors on visual merchandising principles and techniques.
• Communicates regularly with stores, area managers and head office leads to ensure that visual merchandising standards are consistently met across locations.
• Attends webinars, seminars and other creative activities to boost and develop artis .

Minimum Qualifications:

• A degree in visual merchandising, interior design, marketing, fine arts and other related courses.
• With at least 1 year of visual merchandising experience in comparable industries with solid background on fashion/retail marketing;
• Willing to do regular/ multiple store visits around the metro and provincial stores. Can work early or late than the usual working hours during campaign, display and event implementations.
• Knowledgeable in Microsoft Office programs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint Proficient in design software- adobe photoshop or illustrator. Basic knowledge/ skills in Sketchup is a plus
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams (sales, marketing, inventory) and communicate merchandising strategies effectively.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, able to work well with team.
• Visual Merchandising Portfolio – past retail executions

Employee Perks:

• Hybrid: 4 onsite (Mon-Thu) 1 WFH (Fri)
• Flexible Schedule (earliest time in - 6AM)
• Life Insurance upon hire
• HMO upon regularization
• Leaves: VL/SL/BL/EL
• Joining Pair (Havaianas)
• Employee Discount and a lot more

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Fresh graduate

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flextime
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Opportunities for promotion
• Paid training
• Promotion to permanent employee

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Visual Merchandising: 1 year (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 50% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person