Visual Merchandising Team Leader
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About the Role
Seddiqi Holding is looking for a Visual Merchandising Team Leader to manage store displays and drive sales. The role involves leading a team, planning visual merchandising calendars, and collaborating with marketing.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Utilize visual merchandising techniques to secure optimal range presentation and increase commerciality of displays
- Monitor, evaluate and report on VM operations progress against deadlines, milestones and KPIs
- Collaborate with other Team leaders to manage department resources and achieve objectives
- Support Marketing Department with sourcing visual materials, monitor budget and negotiate with suppliers
- Control costs and avoid unnecessary waste in line with budgets
- Keep up to date on competitors and market trends with regular retail visits
- Prepare visual merchandising calendar considering availability of people and equipment
- Liaise with other departments (Brand Management, Marketing) to ensure work is executed in line with expectations
- Lead team work briefing in conjunction with VM Manager
- Lead operations of Visual merchandising teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget and in accordance with guidelines
- Act as point of contact for ensuring resources are available to support projects
- Assist Visual merchandising team in projects or activities as required
Requirements
- Valid UAE driving license
- Strong understanding of legal, health and safety regulations and processes
- Flexibility to work on Retail schedule including late nights, early mornings, weekends and holidays
- Flexibility to travel within GCC if needed
- Bachelor Degree or equivalent
- 5 8 years job related experience
- Retail industry experience
- 3 5 years of VM experience
- 1 year minimum in a supervisory or management role
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Purpose
- The Visual Merchandising Team Leader is responsible for managing the operational aspects of visual merchandising team, and for planning and organizing store displays to drive business and increase sales.
- The role works along with the Visual Merchandising Manager and relevant business partners to develop and implement the ongoing visual merchandising strategy.
Key Accountabilities Operational
- Utilize visual merchandising techniques to secure optimal range presentation and increase commerciality of displays in line with brand guidelines, presentation standards and instruction.
- Monitor, evaluate and report on VM operations progress of self and teams against deadlines, milestones and KPI's.
- Works collaboratively with other Team leaders to ensure department resources are managed efficiently and department objectives are achieved.
- Supports Marketing Department with sourcing of visual materials, monitors and maintains the budget and negotiates with suppliers.
- Controls costs and avoids unnecessary waste of resources in line with department or project budgets.
- Keeps up to date on competitors and market trends with regular retail visits and utilizes this to identify opportunities and make suggestions for better practices.
- Prepares the visual merchandising calendar taking into consideration availability of people and equipment.
- Liaises with other departments within the organization (e.g. Brand Management, Marketing) in order to ensure work is executed in line with expectations.
- Lead the team work briefing in conjunction with the VM Manager ensuring that the team are updated on activities and changes.
- Lead the operations of the Visual merchandising teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget and in accordance with guidelines.
- Acts as the point of contact for ensuring resources are available to support projects and department objectives.
- Assist the Visual merchandising team as and when required, in projects or activities that are planned for the store.
Key Accountabilities People Management
- Provides the team with clear direction and ensures individuals understand what is expected of them.
- Ensure all visual merchandisers have received the necessary training to competently perform safely and securely in their roles.
- Delegates work appropriately to teams (taking into account abilities and resources available).
- Participate in building a diverse and competent team of individuals.
- Ensures visual merchandising teams work maintains a professional, high quality standard at a very detailed level and takes actions to remedy deviations from expected standards.
- Ensures the workplace environment is maintained to a high standard of cleanliness and tidiness and is in compliance with Company standards at all times.
- Manages and facilitates the resolution of conflict within the teams.
- Defines and communicates standards of behavior and work; takes action when individuals fail to meet expected standards.
- Provides others with clear feedback on their performance on a regular basis and provides coaching, expert advice and other appropriate support where required.
Job Requirement and Job Knowledge
- Valid UAE driving license.
- Strong understanding of legal, health and safety regulations and processes.
- Flexibility to work on Retail schedule including working late nights, early mornings, weekends and holidays when required.
- Flexibility to travel within GCC if needed.
- Bachelor Degree or equivalent.
- 5 8 years job related experience.
- Retail industry experience.
- 3 5 years of VM experience.
- 1 year minimum in a supervisory or management role.
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