Visual Merchandiser

Merchandising & Visual Merchandising Project Manager

Travel Retail West & Emerging Hub

In this exciting role reporting to the Marketing & Retail Director you will achieve retail excellence and brand relevancy by managing MEAI shops merchandising and visual strategy for your scope brand and or retailer.

• Merchandising: Build Category Brand retail strategy in line with DMI TR Zone and TRE objectives and priorities. Manage Category Brand POSM from budget retro planning, supplier brief, production, shipping to follow up and reports.
• Visuals: Manage Category Brand visuals and movies from budget retro planning, supplier brief, printing, shipping to follow up and reports.
• Planograms and guidelines: Create how-to documents to guide field managers and BAs in implementing new retail expression. Create planograms for all store configurations.
• Data management: Update and optimize databases. Follow up stock. Ensure correct shops attribution. Assign POSM and visual productions to shops.
• Retail excellence: Gather pictures and feedback from the field to enhance retail excellence in our top shops. Build strong relationships with field teams and suppliers to ensure smooth roll out.

• Brand activation manager
• Field teams
• Retail design team
• Product Managers

In our dynamic Travel Retail ecosystem you will experience agility and entrepreneurial spirit, ability to manage complexity, strong cross-cultural communication skills and international experience, and retail expertise.

• Product merchandising: Creating and implementing the brand retail design and sustainable merchandising strategy to implement the brand image and identity in stores, reinforcing brand visibility.
• Visual merchandising: Creating and implementing a sustainable visual merchandising strategy during key events and animations.
• Brand local adaptation: Tailor global brand strategies to resonate with local market nuances.
• Retail literacy: Understanding business, brand categories challenges and use cases to assess risks and opportunities, mastering key concepts of end-to-end retail customer services and related innovations and trends.

Attention to details, organization, and rigor are a must-have. Retail knowledge and brand sensitivity, previous experience in merchandising, and a good knowledge of the merchandising know-how, materials production techniques are mandatory.