Area Visual Merchandising - East

YOUR MISSION

Reports to: Senior Regional Visual Merchandiser (West and East).

Location: Pune

Position Summary: To ensure enhancement of visual representation of the store by continuously updating the look and feel of the store.

• Maintaining RESEC Campaigns, Zoning and Key initiative roll-out

• Elevated shopping experience and customer readiness of stores focus on store visits and audit

• Fostering VM creativity at stores - Focus on VM training to guide store team to understand brand guidelines and help create an attractive, engaging store environment. Enhancing brand image, improve customer experience and drive sales

• Responsible for sharing monthly beat plan covering all formats of stores

• Innovation and creativity for the lighthouse stores

Key Objectives:

• Provide support through regular physical & virtual audits and trainings to store teams to ensure brand and visual merchandising standards are understood and consistently upheld

• Order and coordinate installation of VM supplies for seasonal / monthly changes for all stores in the region.

• Train Store Management and Support teams on merchandising standards, proper fixture utilization and techniques

• Organizing and sending weekly/monthly reports to the Head Office and implementing feedback

• Maintain/ building a vendor base for various branded supply elements for the region

• Fostering VM creativity at stores through VM training, competition, store audits and VM captains

• Supporting Key initiatives roll outs by covering all store formats.

• Effective budget allocation / Align with over all business goals.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Net Sales

• Stock Cover

• Budget efficiency

• Constant upliftment of look & feel of stores

Organizational relationships:

• Internal: Visual Merchandising Team, Sales Ops Team, Projects team and Merchandising Team

• External: Hangers Vendors, Mannequin Vendors and Print media vendors

YOUR TALENT

Eligibility Criteria And Functional Competencies Required:

• Proven work experience as a Visual Merchandiser or Visual Manager

• Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio

• Solid experience in field visual merchandising, including window displays, signs, interior displays and space utilization

• Proficiency in Microsoft presentation & excel, Photoshop, Illustrator and other visual design tools

• Knowledge of current visual merchandising trends and best practices

• Knowledge of photography

• Creative and innovative thinker

• Ability to analyze sales merchandising reports and survey results

• Bachelors/Masters degree in visual merchandising, fashion merchandising, exhibition design, visual communications or similar

• Acing Number game- analyzing and tracking of the executions done

• A proficient communicator.