T) Manager Special Projects Retail Environment

Position: (T) Manager Special Projects Retail Environment
Overview
( This is a temporary 5-month role until January 2027 )

The Manager Special Project Retail Environment is responsible for ensuring our brand strategy is translated into our retail environment through cross-functional collaboration on the development, design and space planning of our stores to ensure we elevate our store proposition and improve consumer engagement, productivity and profitability of our stores.

The role works closely with Store development, Procurement and Space planning in the alignment of the brand vision across all in-store touch points. The role will be as well responsible to actively work on developing VM solutions to elevate our brand partners at Foot Locker locations across EMEA.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of new fixtures and in-store initiatives to elevate consumer experience

Lead strategic projects from capital submission, fixture development, procurement and rollout

Manages capital investment planning and expense budgets autonomously for retail environment initiatives, ensuring effective

resource allocation and delivery against business objectives

Responsible to create distinction through Vendor Partner collaboration - Vendors and external agencies

Responsible for identifying ideas and initiatives, partnering cross functionally, to improve consumer engagement and productivity of our stores through the lens of fixture design and store layout

Contribute to lead the “Fast Break Store concept” roll out

Responsible, in partnership with Real Estate / CX & Sales and Regional Planning teams, to lead the weekly design approval meetings and ensure all VM imperatives are embedded in every new / re-model store together with the coordinator Layout Planning

Cultivate and strategically manage vendor partnerships to identify and deliver innovative Visual Merchandising solutions that elevate the in-store experience, strengthen brand differentiation and drive business performance

Act as a subject matter expert, fostering capability growth and elevating functional expertise to support business needs

Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders by driving process improvements, promoting cross-functional collaboration and ensuring alignment throughout all stages of project delivery.

Qualifications

More than 7 years of VM / Retail experience, with significant managerial exposure

Strong Creativity, collaboration, and communication skills

Well-developed time management skills with a deadline-driven mentality

Pro-active, well organized and flexible with a customer-oriented mindset

Design experience is preferred. Understanding CAD design is desirable, understanding of blueprint drawings is preferred.

Demonstrated experience with design tools including Adobe Suite (Illustrator, AutoCAD, InDesign, Adobe Acrobat etc.) is preferred

Proficiency in using Microsoft Office 365 suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams) is required

Fluent in English

Candidates must be eligible to work in the Netherlands

Benefits

Recognition, inclusion and belonging in a diverse environment

25 holidays and flexible working (hybrid position, in office ~2 days p/w)

Employee Discount on in-store and online products

Casual Sneaker Culture

Learning & Health/Wellbeing programs

Career development and growth in an ambitious international team

Travel reimbursement

Access to premium wellness apps

Bike plan and contribution to gym subscription

Pension Plan

Discounted Collective Health plans

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