Job Description

Visual Merchandising Manager

Location: Hybrid in Cupertino, CA (onsite Tues - Thurs)

Duration : 6 months with potential to extend

Pay: Up to $91.00/hour, DOE (W2 and benefit options)

The Planet Group is looking for a Visual Merchandising Manager to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 6-month contract. This role will work 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Cupertino, CA, working onsite Tuesday-Thursday.

Visual Merchandising Manager Responsibilities:

• Develop and oversee merchandising plans and readiness for product launches, campaign moments, and store resets
• Oversee program management and communication of all NPI, Campaign and Programs across hero products, accessories and services
• Determine and brief immersive customer experience requirements including signage, digital and interactive content, product displays and fixtures
• Lead partnership and create efficiencies with existing processes, improving implementation in stores as well as process improvement with cross-functional teams
• Present regularly to leadership and cross-functional partners
• Communicate strategy on a regular basis to leadership and field organization
• Create efficiencies with existing processes, improving internal and external ways of working across cross-functional work streams
• Build and drive the global strategy to highlight brand identity and build immersive customer experiences around products and services
• Drive forward-looking store experience roadmap aligned by line of business, incorporating customer insights, store feedback, and industry trends
• Create and evolve global visual store layouts and approach for optimal customer experience, while driving space allocation for brand impact and profitability
• Continually innovate merchandising strategy to support the needs and growth of the business
• Facilitate constant communication loop with Geo-based teams and Field Merchandising on feedback and strategy handoffs for local implementation
• Identify and communicate key priorities to generate drive for results, teamwork, and achieving business objectives with inspired team vision and purpose
• Support overnight resets in stores, regular store visits and new store opening activity as needed

Visual Merchandising Manager Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (Business, Marketing, or related degree preferred) or industry equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience required
• Excellent decision quality with experience in planning and organizing
• Process-centric, with the ability to flex from high-level strategy to fine attention to detail
• Cross-functional agility, and ability to independently lead and meet objectives in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment
• Self-starter and takes initiative with an entrepreneurial spirit, as part of a team
• Proven ability to establish rapport, credibility, and influence others to get results across a large matrixed organization in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Strong understanding of the consumer and how visual merchandising supports an outstanding customer experience and drives business
• Thrives working during intensive periods under bold deadlines
• Experience in driving strategy and developing and influencing business relationships at all levels of an organization
• Excellent decision quality with experience in planning and organizing
• Process-centric, with the ability to flex from high-level strategy to fine attention to detail
• Experience presenting in formal and informal settings and adept to flex across various audiences and levels of the organization
• Thrives working during intensive periods under bold deadlines
• Previous experience in global brand execution and merchandising focus
• Keynote experience is highly desired
• Merchandising experience a plus

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