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Columbia Sportswear Company

Sr Visual Merchandiser

Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanPosted 2 days ago
Full-timeonsite

Job Description

Job Summary:

We are looking for an innovative visual merchandiser to assist in generating sales through creative retail and wholesale displays that capture consumers’/buyers’ attention, with the goal of providing an excellent in-store experience. You will employ visual merchandising principles to convert window shoppers into prospects by driving branding and sales objectives in order to maximize profitability.

Responsibilities:

  • Creating and implementing a visual merchandising strategy/guideline for the store.
  • Ensuring the visual merchandising guideline is in line with the brand, products, and target market.
  • Finalizing designs and creating detailed floor plans for display areas.
  • Sourcing the props and creative materials for displays.
  • Installing and setting up window displays, show room display, and in-store displays, or supervising third-party vendors.
  • Coordinate with different departments to implement launch of new stores/corners.
  • Changing displays to promote new product launches or to reflect festive or seasonal themes.
  • Ensuring uniformity of displays across multiple store locations.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including Retail store, Retail Operations, Sales, Brand Marking, and Merchandising to improve brand/product presentation and sales promotion.
  • Monitoring costs and working within budget.
  • Researching outdoor/sports market, and design trends that will inform the visual merchandising strategy.
  • Participate in cross-functional projects across the business.
  • Identify issues and process gaps inherent in cross functional procedures and suggest options for resolution.
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications:

  • A minimum of 3 years of visual merchandiser experiences in retail or wholesale industry.
  • Experienced at using Adobe Creative Suite programs, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, or other visual design tools.
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite.
  • Ability to analyze sales merchandising reports and sales KPI results.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Bachelor’s Degree or above

Others

  • Flexible time eligible
  • Hybrid work (remote work) eligible
  • Travel -Occasional

Job Conditions:

  • Job requires hours that may occasionally exceed 7.5 hours per day and/or 37.5 hours per week during times of peak activity.
  • Evening meetings and/or weekend work occasionally required to collaborate with people in other time zones and to ensure timely project completion.
  • Some domestic travel, occasionally including weekends required.
  • Some job pressure exists in the balancing of several projects with conflicting and sometimes changing deadlines.

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company. 

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