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Manager, Field Visual Merchandiser (West Coast)
Coach
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Coach was founded in 1941 as a family-run workshop, and today is a leading New York design house of modern luxury accessories and lifestyle collections. We attribute the prominence of the Coach brand to the unique combination of our original American attitude and design, our heritage of fine leather goods and custom fabrics, our superior product quality, and our commitment to the customer experience.
At Coach, we bring together strong, collaborative people in a culture of mutual respect, support, accountability, and passion for the brand and product. Our goal is to offer an inspirational and modern workplace that allows for exceptional talent to thrive.
Primary Purpose:Coach is recruiting for Field Area Visual Merchants that will collaborate with the visual team to produce seasonal visual merchandising guidelines, develop and execute training, and coordinate new store openings. 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...
• Training
◦ Training and developing In-Store VM to understand the store environment, customer flow, and product flow.
◦ Training and developing In-Store VM on adapting of Global VM directives, when supporting business objectives.
◦ Training and developing In-Store VM on core skills to include; communication, time and organization, and partnership.
◦ Training on all VM trends for the season.
• Merchandising
◦ Ability to create strong visual presentations that drive business.
◦ Stay up to date on regional business trends in area. Read business reports and shop the competition.
◦ Give consistent merchandising direction on brand standard to field management.
◦ Train store management teams on current visual standards and guideline presentation. Conduct additional training for management and staff as needed.
◦ Identify areas of business opportunities with District Manager, Store Manager and delivers an action plan.
• Communication
◦ Manages flow of communication between corporate visual merchandising, the stores and management staff through weekly conference calls, touch bases, store visits, and seminars in an effort to support Company guidelines.
◦ Help stores interpret corporate visual guidelines through faxed map 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 - at least 2 to 3 years of experience.
• The ability to interpret visual merchandising presentations and relate it back to the store environment.
• Strong attention to details, 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.
An outstanding professional will have...
• Minimum 7 years of area/district visual merchandising experience
• Strong understanding of symmetrical vs. asymmetrical with regard to fixturing and wall scaping.
• Experience facilitating new store openings.
• Proficiency with in Microsoft office (Word, Excel)
• Knowledge of PhotoShop and Illustrator a plus
Coach is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.