In-Store Visual Merchandise Manager - Chatswood Chase

OBJECTIVE

The Visual Manager is a member of the store leadership team who deals with ALO’s visual and product strategy in the store. This individual is passionate about planning, product knowledge, analyzing reporting and visual execution – all with a lens on driving efficient and effective visual merchandising. This role’s north star is pointed at ensuring that the store is customer-ready at all times.

Visual Leader

• 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 with partnership of the Visual 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. Makes changes as necessary

Business Leader

• 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 (e.g. Expenses, Sell-Thru) and inform planning processes (e.g., quarterly business review and sales planning)
• Future planning workflow business needs to protect optimal performance

People Leader

• Ensure that the Visual team exudes ALO's mission and guiding principles to effectively communicate to our visitors who we are, what we do and why we do what we do
• Leads a team through accountability, continuous coaching on a regular basis, development of talent, and elevating effective communication throughout the Operations and Visual team
• Establish internal & external pipeline through succession planning and recruitment strategy
• Writes an effective schedule that prioritizes the best business strategy, in partnership with the General Manager

Flow Experience Leader

• 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, as directed, to support organizational goals and to achieve visual and sales floor KPI’s
• Demonstrate an ability to navigate the organization with a balance of business need and brand culture

VISUAL MANAGER QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of retail or related industry leadership experience
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Extraordinary 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 10-15KG
• Ability to lift, bend, kneel, climb, crawl and/or twist, and safely climb up/down a ladder
• Ability to stand and move for an entire shift

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