Visual Merchandising Regional Manager

Summary

Join our Global Visual Merchandising team as a temporary support for the Europe and Middle East region while the Regional Manager is on maternity leave. This role will provide crucial support in seasonal visual merchandising updates, from planning and development to production and regional requests. You will collaborate with various teams, including APAC VM Manager, Sales, Creative Ops, and vendors, to ensure timely execution of projects. Responsibilities include planogram creation, communication of milestones, project management, vendor liaison, and tracking of installations. The position requires strong organizational and communication skills, as well as experience in visual merchandising and project management.

Responsibilities

• Working with VM Manager from APAC, create planograms for EMEA retailers seasonally
• Communicate milestones and due dates to Sales team to receive and review Add/Deletes and Assortments (Sales to provide shade order and pricing)
• Working with Creative Ops Manager and Director VM to ensure milestone dates are met
• All requests created in Asana and tracked in Asana
• Lead weekly status meetings with Vendors
• Attend reoccurring meetings with Global VM team and International Sales
• Share planograms with cross-functional partners and retailers
• Kick off projects to vendors, plan timelines for production, track development and schedule installs
• Request schedules from all vendors (these need to be approved by sales and retailer and submitted 1 month ahead of ocd)
• Liaise with vendors for production and provide timely feedback
• Review engineering, type-safety files and prototypes (via video or in-person depending on the complexity of the update) with VM Director
• Create artwork requests once type-safety & assortments has been reviewed and ready to pass off to creative team. (Requests placed 1 month prior to due date)
• Request for renderings from 3D designer – Global VM to provide list of which fixtures get rendered
• Ensure door counts are kept up to date per season for door quantities (sales to manage)
• Follow up on all installations, manage any issues, and share photos internally
• Manage vendors to build install new fixtures / organize renovations
• Obtain costs for new doors and negotiate timelines