VISUAL MERCHANDISING MANAGER

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If you have a talent for innovation, a desire to collaborate and a love of celebrating success, start here! Carter's is an established company with a history dating back to .
We are the largest marketer of branded baby and children's apparel in the U.
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and the second largest in Mexico, marketing apparel under two of the most recognized Essential job functions.
? ?VISUAL MERCHANDISING -      Conceptualizes and drives innovative visual approaches across multiple store formats that deliver sales results.
-      Understands key strategic business initiatives; develops and executes ways to support through Visual Merchandising/Presentation and fixture/prop roll outs.
-      Overseas all aspects of floor-set execution, from pre-buy work with buying team to final communication to field team for execution.
-      Incorporate and communicate key strategic business initiatives through Visual Merchandising and Presentation.
-      Participate in weekly business review meetings with the Buying team and make recommendations to support the business need based current trends, pricing, and strategies.
-      Lead & facilitate the set-up of merchandise statements in our Satelite store that are compelling, easy for customers to understand and easy for the stores to execute.
-      Set new product and marketing in-store for corporate leadership review.
-      Partner and collaborate with buying and marketing team to drive relevant / necessary in-store marketing that supports floor set, buy strategy and global marketing campaign.
-      Develops and executes visual presentations for special projects and corporate events as needed including Holiday, Spring, Halloween, Buen Fin and sell ins.
-      Leads idea generation, sampling and developing seasonal displays and the sourcing of props to deliver presentation.
-      Works with outside venders while sampling, sourcing and procuring visual props.
Manages and presents costing comparisongs on props, pop vendors, and all expenses involving visual merchandising.
-      Travels to stores for special initiatives, new store openings, hands-on Visual Merchandising training and work throughs as needed.
MANAGEMENT OF PROCESS -      Key stakeholder / business owner and decision maker for the Visual Merchandising team.
-      Manage full aspect of floor-set process, from pre-buy work to final communication.
-      Action relevant changes based on outcome of weekly business review meetings with the Buying team.
(Tasks, PCD, Floor Adjustments, influence change that balances brand and promotion) -      Lead weekly buy meeting impacting quarterly strategy and blueprint layouts.
Offer solutions and action changes in a timely manner to influence buy and evolution of current & future presentations.
-      Lead all floorset walkthroughs to creative leadership and buying and store operations team.
-      Manage computer files and facilitate visual process, expenses of own business.
COMMUNICATION TO STORES -      Create, execute and communicates merchandise blueprints, visual directives and window / campaign directives that align to design, merchandising and global marketing campaigns.
-      Responsible for documenting those statements in words and pictures and communicating them to our national chain of retail stores.
-      Overseas all content communication to the field related to Visual Merchandising accountable for all content and output.
-      Builds training materials, standard manuals and videos for field team.
-      Manages full process of Visual Merchandising presentation, from pre-buy to the end presentation in store ensuing design and merchant vision comes to life in our retail environment.
-      Sell in set up for wholesale.
-      Overseas all aspects of bi-monthly VMD, builds timelines, milestones, provides content, proofs & edits documentation ensuring print and store ops deadlines are met.
JOB requirements -     Good communication skills and build consensus among all parties -     Well-developed presentation skills -     Strong aesthetic point of view and the ability to translate to our brands -     Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite -     Must have strong fashion merchandising and display talent -     Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe In Design -     Strong creative eye for fashion and color -     Multi-task, self-motivated and deadline oriented with high level of accuracy -     Hands-on merchandising of product and related fixtures in lab setting for corporate leadership review.
-     Hands-on setting of marketing in windows, store ceilings, etc.
-     Collaborates and partners with Buying, Creative, Merchandising, Planning and Field partners.
prior work experience.
-     3 – 5 years of experience of store experience is preferred -     3 years leading visual merchandising initiatives -     Ability to build and maintain cross-functional communication and relationships.
-     Willingness to work on calendars / timelines of our partners when necessary.
-     Passionate, highly self-motivated, ability to be productive and drive results within a changing environment or under pressure.
Benefits.
saving fund life insurance food coupons 50% discount At Carter's we promote a culture of inclusion and an environment of equality and respect, therefore our Talent Acquisition process is aligned to a policy of equality and non-discrimination with a firm commitment to attract, retain, develop and motivate our human talent based on competencies and skills.
Carter's provides equal opportunities to all candidates, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital or conjugal status, nationality or any other situation protected by federal, state or local laws, and does not require medical certificates of non-pregnancy and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) as requirements for admission, permanence or promotion in employment.