Visual Merchandising Manager

What You’ll Do As a Visual Merchandising Manager, you will be responsible for the visual proposition across the store and lead and develop a high performing visual merchandising team. Collaborating with the Store Management team, you will deliver impactful visual displays that exceed customer expectations and maximizes sales. The Visual Merchandising Manager is the creative ambassador for visual merchandising, in-store. A true leader, you will coach and consult with colleagues to deliver an inspiring visual proposition that is aligned to Primark’s Visual Merchandising standards. Visual Merchandising Managers have the power to impact the business daily, by understanding the Primark customer needs, shopping habits, fashion preferences, and reflecting the latest trend through excellent product presentations, window and mannequin styling. Creativity is yours as you manage and oversee the launch of new visual merchandising campaigns, providing direction and inspiration to the visual merchandising team to deliver effective campaigns. As the in-store champion for visual merchandising, you share and coach on best practices and principles that create visual displays to influence the customer journey. As the leader, you will hire, train, coach and motivate a team of Visual Merchandisers. You will ensure your team is adhering to operating standards, maintain cost related to stock, and following Primark guidelines on POS and pricing for displays. This is crucial to ensuring visual merchandising is contributing to an exceptional shopping experience for every customer, a positive work environment for every colleague, and maximizing sales. What You’ll Get We’re committed to your success and will provide you with a robust onboarding period. Here, you’ll be empowered to succeed. As we rapidly expand across the globe, we’ll give you the tools that you need to excel. We’ll also offer you competitive benefits and work life balance – we know your life outside of the store is important. What You’ll Bring To be successful in this role, you will have at least 4 years prior experience in a Visual Merchandising Manager role, managing a team with a high-volume retailer. You are nimble and adaptable, being able to flex your plans and priorities in a fast-paced environment.  •    You will have strong communication skills and the ability to relate to customer’s needs.  •    Act as a role model who can lead, motivate, and inspire the team, who builds confidence and enthusiasm, enabling the team to deliver excellent customer service and high impact visual displays. •    Resilient with a proven ability to lead a team and confident in giving constructive feedback to others. •    Excellent creative skills that deliver an inspiring visual proposition while maximizing sales •    Exceptional people and communication skills with an ability to build and maintain relationships with colleagues and management •    Skilled in providing consultation and advice with an ability to influence colleagues at all levels  •    Strategically minded and organized, good problem-solving skills with an ability to plan and prioritize work schedules within agreed timescales  •    Robust knowledge of fashion trends and commercial awareness •    Strong service focus with experience of delivering excellent customer experience while maintaining high retail standards  •    Position holder must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently, orally and in writing, with managers, supervisors, and hourly colleagues in English to provide instruction, coaching, corrective action, safety instructions and lead teams as a manager daily and in emergencies.  Position holder must also be able to provide amazing customer service in English, which includes being able to orally communicate wi