Bloomingdale's is hiring: Regional Director of Visual Merchandising - East in Ne

About:

Bloomingdale's makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We will always strive to make Bloomingdale's like no other store in the world. Across all brand touchpoints—from Bloomingdales.com to our newest small store concept, Bloomie's—everyone plays a critical role bringing our mission to life. Our inclusive culture promotes diversity of background, thought, and opinion. Regardless of position, we believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial, and collaborative, while having a lot of fun along the way.

Job Overview:

The Regional Director of Visual Merchandising (RDVMM) drives consistency of execution in all stores within the region, establishing Bloomingdale's as the local leader of visual merchandising success in their region. The RDVMM inspires and guides the store team to deliver environments filled with creative energy and aspirational yet approachable style, always placing the customer first, always. The RDVMM role models a strong creative sense of fashion leadership balanced with an understanding of metric driven commerce. They are focused on delivering sales by dreaming big in their support of corporate and regional initiatives, pushing the envelope of what bold and innovative means for their team. Partnering with the RDOS, GMs, and store teams, the VMM makes things happen by leading the process for delivery of fashion leadership, merchandise strategies, fashion trends, prototypes, and creative alignment to Marketing campaigns. The RDVMM develops a team of strong professional and hourly colleagues, building together to ensure best practices are executed, and guaranteeing we always create a clean, neat, and easy to shop environment in our stores.

Essential Functions:

1. Ensure Operating Principles are fully embraced by the region with the appropriate communication and culture.
2. Lead the Visual Merchandising teams to deliver a customer centric fashion leadership vision.
3. Work in partnership with Central, RDOS, GMs, Asset Protection, Operations, and Operations Managers on accurate sales/expense forecasting, achieving all productivity metrics.
4. Ensure merchandise presentation standards and floor replenishment are consistently supported with efficient stock room organization and maintenance.
5. Partner with General Managers, Visual Merchandising teams, and Operations teams on seasonal merchandising strategies and marketing events.
6. Analyze and understand key business trends, ensuring operational focus on supporting those businesses.
7. Ensure consistent review of weekly operations reports to maximize selling opportunities.
8. Work with stores to coordinate operational execution of outbound merchandise, managing stock levels.
9. Serve as the ultimate role model of customer first, always.
10. Ensure that Operations teams understand that the customer is the number 1 priority.
11. Conduct weekly store walk-through visits, reviewing Service Channel tickets and standards.
12. Analyze BTR weekly, monitoring expense trends in comparison with business trends in the stores.
13. Achieve shortage plan in all stores and facilitate sharing of shortage control best practices.
14. Work in partnership with Central Sr. Director of Finance on expense initiatives.
15. Ensure 100% compliance in the stores with seasonal shortage reduction strategies.
16. Drive compliance with all merchandise protection standards to 100%.
17. Develop and retain executive and hourly support professionals.
18. Coordinate new hire onboarding and training for all operations executives and supervisors.
19. Provide partnership and operational support and training to all store team members.
20. Actively participate in talent reviews and developmental check-ins.
21. Work in partnership with the General Manager to address performance issues in the operations teams.

Qualifications and Competencies:

Bachelor's Degree from a 4-year college or university

3-5 years direct experience

Physical Requirements:

1. Position requires prolonged periods of standing/walking around store or department.
2. May involve reaching, crouching, kneeling, stooping, and color vision.
3. Frequent use of computers and other technology necessary to perform job functions.
4. Frequently lift/move up to 25lbs.

This job description is not all inclusive; additionally, Macy's, Inc. reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. Macy's, Inc. - including Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Blue Mercury - is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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