Management Tasks & Accountabilities:
- Management of Maison VM team (two direct reports) – including issuing guidance, feedback and managing performance
- Daily communication with the VM team, stock team, store and country management
- Planning and organisation,
- Reporting to VM Manager, with ‘dotted line’ to Store Director
- Sales Associates team reporting on VM works: window concept explanations, products display responsible of the visual identity of the store: guidelines respected
- Identification and motivation of visual merchandising team
- Reactivity and creativity: alternative and attractive VM to be implemented
- Commercial attitude
VM Specific Tasks (all VM profiles regardless of hierarchy) include:
Windows Set up
- In charge of the window set-up (5 per year): coordination with contractors, electrician, kits delivery
- Planning, anticipation, organisation, inside and outside glass panel and window cleaning, lighting, refurbishment if need be
- Window booklet analysis and application
- Anticipation of the products stock
- Products set up
- Lighting focusing
- Intranet reporting
- Pictures to be sent to country Visual Merchandising Manager
Product Rotations
- Pre planning of the rotation, creating a zoning to be shared with all concerned, after taking in business needs / priorities
- Follow up VM booklet guidelines
- Reactivity to business needs at any given time
- Aware of the city / actuality / events environment
- Coherence between all products categories
- Windows database update
In-store Review
- Store cleanness and tidiness
- Lighting condition
- All product categories knowledge
- All product categories Visual Merchandising guidelines knowledge
- Stock team collaboration for product availability, launches and ends of life
- Visual training to the VM store, morning briefs to be carried out at least 1 per month
- IWD knowledge: guidelines / reporting / best practices. Intranet system
Rotation
- Products rotation organisation: team planning, training non VMs and for them to participate rotations
- Products stock anticipations
- Sharing / understanding the commercial vision with the store manager
- Zoning validated by VM country
- Coherent with environment, to follow up the VM guidelines
- Knowledge of launch, end of file, push: NIP’s, country VM communication
- Database update
- Pictures to be sent to country VM Manager
