Job Description
Visual Merchandising Manager
Location: Hybrid in Cupertino, CA (onsite Tues - Thurs)
Duration : 6 months with potential to extend
Pay: Up to $91.00/hour, DOE (W2 and benefit options)
The Planet Group is looking for a Visual Merchandising Manager to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 6-month contract. This role will work 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Cupertino, CA, working onsite Tuesday-Thursday.
Visual Merchandising Manager Responsibilities:
- Develop and oversee merchandising plans and readiness for product launches, campaign moments, and store resets
- Oversee program management and communication of all NPI, Campaign and Programs across hero products, accessories and services
- Determine and brief immersive customer experience requirements including signage, digital and interactive content, product displays and fixtures
- Lead partnership and create efficiencies with existing processes, improving implementation in stores as well as process improvement with cross-functional teams
- Present regularly to leadership and cross-functional partners
- Communicate strategy on a regular basis to leadership and field organization
- Create efficiencies with existing processes, improving internal and external ways of working across cross-functional work streams
- Build and drive the global strategy to highlight brand identity and build immersive customer experiences around products and services
- Drive forward-looking store experience roadmap aligned by line of business, incorporating customer insights, store feedback, and industry trends
- Create and evolve global visual store layouts and approach for optimal customer experience, while driving space allocation for brand impact and profitability
- Continually innovate merchandising strategy to support the needs and growth of the business
- Facilitate constant communication loop with Geo-based teams and Field Merchandising on feedback and strategy handoffs for local implementation
- Identify and communicate key priorities to generate drive for results, teamwork, and achieving business objectives with inspired team vision and purpose
- Support overnight resets in stores, regular store visits and new store opening activity as needed
Visual Merchandising Manager Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (Business, Marketing, or related degree preferred) or industry equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience required
- Excellent decision quality with experience in planning and organizing
- Process-centric, with the ability to flex from high-level strategy to fine attention to detail
- Cross-functional agility, and ability to independently lead and meet objectives in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment
- Self-starter and takes initiative with an entrepreneurial spirit, as part of a team
- Proven ability to establish rapport, credibility, and influence others to get results across a large matrixed organization in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
- Strong understanding of the consumer and how visual merchandising supports an outstanding customer experience and drives business
- Thrives working during intensive periods under bold deadlines
- Experience in driving strategy and developing and influencing business relationships at all levels of an organization
- Excellent decision quality with experience in planning and organizing
- Process-centric, with the ability to flex from high-level strategy to fine attention to detail
- Experience presenting in formal and informal settings and adept to flex across various audiences and levels of the organization
- Thrives working during intensive periods under bold deadlines
- Previous experience in global brand execution and merchandising focus
- Keynote experience is highly desired
- Merchandising experience a plus
Job Tags
Contract work, Local area, Flexible hours, Night shift,