Regional Visual Merchandising Manager - Retail (SMCP)

Job description / Role

Overview of the role

The Regional Visual Merchandising Manager is responsible for executing and maintaining high-impact visual displays across stores, ensuring brand consistency and an engaging customer experience. This role drives the implementation of strategic visual merchandising guidelines, maximizing the effectiveness of promotional displays and key features. Additionally, the position focuses on optimizing resources and manpower to enhance store presentation, sales performance, and overall brand identity.

What you will do

• Cross-Regional Coordination & Training - Build and maintain strong relationships across multiple countries/regions, conducting regular market visits to coach, train, and ensure compliance with visual merchandising (VM) standards. Lead training sessions to enhance VM execution.
• Retail & Product Visual Merchandising - Oversee the alignment between retail operations and product visual merchandising, ensuring brand consistency across all stores.
• Image & Display Management - Manage the selection, production, and installation of visual merchandising imagery, ensuring a high standard of execution.
• Store Communication & Fixture Management - Act as the primary liaison with Store Managers and Operations Managers, overseeing store-specific fixture requests, damage reports, and delivery logistics, particularly for new store openings.
• Seasonal & Promotional Execution - Develop and distribute new season VM packets, including fixture order forms, props, standards manuals, and regional VM guidelines.
• Visual Merchandising Communication & Rollouts - Lead and execute all VM-related communication, ensuring seamless coordination for new product launches, holiday campaigns, store rollouts, and new store openings through both digital and physical transmittals.
• Supplier & Budget Management - Maintain strong vendor relationships, overseeing scheduling, budgets, and invoice processing to ensure cost-effective and timely execution.
• Data & Information Management - Maintain accurate distribution lists and VM attributes, ensuring all rollout-related information is well-documented and accessible.
• Store-Level Implementation & Compliance - Collaborate closely with Store Managers and Assistant Store Managers to ensure smooth VM rollouts, minimizing operational disruptions while maintaining high presentation standards.

Required Skills to be successful

• Adapts to changes in the work environment
• Follows instructions and responds to management direction
• Translates concepts and information into images
• Creative presentation skills
• Good knowledge of MS Office applications, especially PowerPoint presentation

What equips you for the role

Minimum Qualification and Knowledge

Education: Bachelor degree graduate or equivalent, preferably in visual merchandising

Minimum Experience

Minimum of 5 years in a retail environment within a premium fashion store display capacity. Previous retail store environment experience required.

Behavioral Competencies

• Highly organized, attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Work under pressure
• Strong management skills
• Pro-active and flexible
• Able to handle numerous tasks at one time and prioritize them effectively
• Advanced skills in MS Office PowerPoint presentation
• Interpersonal skills, ability to interact professionally with high-level executives on a regular basis
• Ability to work well with all levels of internal management and staff, as well as third-party vendors
• Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality

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About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.