Product Merchandising Supervisor - Tryano

Job description / Role

Reporting to the VM Department Manager, the Product Merchandising Supervisor is responsible for organising and deploying high quality product merchandising presentation and brand communication across the store. The Product Merchandising Supervisor is also responsible for leading the Product Merchandising and store teams, as well as ensuring the consistency of standards.

In their endeavor to excellence, the fundamental values all our employees must possess are Commitment, Integrity, Empathy and Flexibility

Main Responsibilities:
- Implement high quality product merchandising strategy and presentations through seasonal event calendar and corporate guidelines.
- Build strong relations with GM, all Department Managers, Sales Executives/ VM Ambassador and Senior Sales Executives, to endorse and support the maintenance of presentations.
- Collaborate with the Buyers, Brand Marketing and in-store management to align on seasonal timings & executions to deliver a premium retail experience to the consumer.
- Measure the impact of merchandising action plans and issue weekly report to the VM Department Manager with photographs, comments and measurements of sales impact.
- Review current business performance to identify merchandising and product placement opportunities including the impact of floor moves.
- Analysis sales compared to stock levels on a daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal basis.
- Deliver weekly report to the VM Department Manager with photos, comments and measures of sales impact.
- Stay up to date with internal brand activities and external competitor activities.
- Lead and develop the Product Presentation directive process including maintaining imagery database, photo-shopping, editing and formatting documents under the direction of the Senior Product Placement VM and VM Department Manager.
- Lead the Product Presentation direction and guidelines including floor plans to in-store department managers and SIS’s on a bi-weekly basis.
- Ensure seasonal training is delivered to all store staff on display strategies.
- Partner with GM and in-store management to communicate all merchandise needs, selling trends or inefficient stock levels to the buyers.
- Lead and demonstrate strong partnership with Display Decoration, Display Designer and store teams.   
- Additional tasks might be required, in reasonable alignment with the job role.

Requirements

- Education-Certification in an Art or display discipline
- 3 - 4 years of visual merchandising experience in a senior role
- Experience of planning VM Launches, Creating guidelines, Window installations, Mannequin styling
- Leading a team of floor staff and VM’s
- Working with local suppliers, developing schemes and concepts
- Past experience of working with department store concession brands, following set brand guidelines

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.