Visual Merchandising Manager

Company Overview:

Our client is a fresh, clean and modern cosmetics brand best known for enhancing a woman’s natural beauty.  Their philosophy has always been to create the best “non-makeup” makeup look.  With the best techniques and tools they have become a pretty powerful brand in the industry. Their creative and fun company culture is warm and inviting, housing some of the most intellectual and style savvy employees.

Position Overview:

In this role you will develop creative and inspiring visual displays, merchandising strategies and presentations that support the goals and business objectives of each season and/or product launch for Premium Wholesale Channels within the Americas region.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the visual merchandising process for Premium Wholesale (gondola) environments in Department Stores (eg. Macy’s Impulse and Dillard’s Edge)
• Create innovative and compelling presentations that support company initiatives and business objectives
• Partner with outside fixture vendors on all gondola fixture updates, including: assortments, planograms, rendering prototypes and instructions for each update
• Lead cross functional collaboration with Merchandising, Production, Operations and Visual Operations Teams
• Visual presentations are accurately represented and executed
• Prioritize workload and determine additional efficiencies within the department

Key Qualifications:

• Position based in San Francisco head office
• 5+ years of corporate visual merchandising experience (preferably in beauty and/or gondola environments)
• Mandatory proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (specifically In-Design, Photoshop and Illustrator) and fluent expert with Microsoft Office
• Highly organized, process-oriented and exemplary time-management skills
• Strong comfort level with written and verbal communication skills to all levels of management
• Idea-driven, takes initiative and a creative problem solver