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Visual Merchandising Manager
Date: 05-Mar-2023
Location: KW
Company: Alghanim Industries
Job Purpose
The candidate will lead visual team in development of new stores designs, in-store merchandising concepts, visual displays, and seasonal product calendars, achieving a best-in-class shopping experience and visually attractive store journey.
Essential Job Roles
- Lead the Visual Merchandising team in creating, establishing, and ensuring an optimal visual level in the store contributing to commercial objectives of Safat Home.
- Implement and innovate upon store layout plan to best present the product range
- Maintain an organized and visually appealing environment for our customers
- Plan and execute effective visual merchandising strategies
- Utilize space planning tools to ensure simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency in store design
- Setting and maintaining standards and procedures with the VM’s and store teams
- Create Partnerships across multiple departments to maintain and update displays to continue seasonality and relevance to product calendar
- Analysis of current VM techniques, manuals, policies, and procedures and set up the standards and clear direction for stores to follow
- Maintaining and updating of detailed Planograms for all stores
- Drive shop-floor transformation
- Support with decisions regarding new sites and stores in terms of layout, functionality, space, and structure
- Contribute to Commercial Projects within Safat Home to include new stores, refits, new concepts, redesign, etc.
- Accountable for recruiting, developing, and training of the visual merchandising team
Skills, Knowledge & Experience Required
- 10 years’ experience in Home Furnishing Retail.
- Bachelor’s degree in Interior design or equivalent.
- Team builder can build an efficient team around her/him
- Ability to prioritize and organize multiple projects with strong attention to details.
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent knowledge of trends, styles of home-furnishing
- Creativity and ability to work with styles and wide product range
- Understanding of how to ascertain information regarding Life at home and how to show the solutions in the stores
- Ideally with Interior design competence and relevant technical PC software skills