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Primary Purpose:
Coach is recruiting for a Field Visual Merchandising Assistant Manager to drive efficiencies of global visual merchandising in partnership with Senior Manager Northeast and Director of North America Visual Merchandising. This individual will be responsible for executing global visual merchandising direction, executing visual merchandising trainings, coordinating new store openings, and supporting the design process of in-store amplifications and pop-ups across all Coach channels. This individual must be able to work remotely, be comfortable with change, and work at a fast pace. You will be a part of a dynamic, creative environment where you will interact with cross-functional partners to ensure that Coach's visual merchandising standards are continuously elevated.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Visual Merchandising to:
- Merchandising & Training
- Ability to create strong visual presentations that drive business.
- Stay up to date on regional business trends in the area. Read business reports and shop the competition.
- Give consistent merchandising direction on brand standards to field management.
- Train store management teams on current visual standards and guideline presentation. Conduct additional training for management and staff as needed.
- Identify business opportunities with District Manager and Store Manager to deliver an action plan.
- Manage flow of communication between corporate visual merchandising, the stores, and management staff through conference calls, touch bases, store visits, and seminars to support Company guidelines.
- Help stores interpret corporate visual guidelines through mapping sessions and/or store visits. Work with stores to interpret guidelines to meet the needs of their business.
The accomplished individual will possess:
- Strong communication/leadership skills for leading store visits/walk-throughs.
- The ability to interpret visual merchandising presentations and relate them back to the store environment and adapt to different store designs and architecture.
- Strong attention to detail, e.g., standards, marketing, lighting, fixturing, windows.
- The ability to be creative and inspire others.
- Awareness of fashion trends and the ability to interpret them back into visual merchandising.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
An outstanding professional will have:
- 2+ years of area/district visual merchandising experience.
- Experience facilitating new store openings.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Knowledge of InDesign is a plus.
- Strong presentation skills and able to articulate ideas.
- Flexible to travel (minimum 25% of time).
- Flexible to work outside of standard office hours to meet department deadlines and installation needs.
- Able to carry heavy boxes and objects, climb ladders, etc.
Our Competencies for All Employees
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air;