Senior Co-ordinator: Retail Visual Merchandising

3 weeks ago


Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

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**Role Purpose/Business Unit**:

- Serve as the central point of support to the trade and regions for end to end in store visual merchandising and retail marketing execution across branded footprint,
- Coordinate and manage distribution on all POS elements on a monthly basis ensuring effective, qualitative and optimal delivery and installation,
- Compile and publish Planograms as per segmentation, while ensuring timeously and quality driven communication and execution including general communication that sent to trade.
- Lead and coordinate all booking related to Manufacturer promoters in terms of store allocation, services rendered, SLA and compliance levels.
- Manage collaboration and engagement with internal and external stakeholders (which includes business units, product manufacturers e.g., Samsung, etc.) ensuring effective and efficient visual merchandising management within the branded channels.
- Support with defining, designing, and implementing a creative visual merchandising strategy that delivers on business and companywide priorities.
- Support with ensuring that visual merchandising within the branded channels is appealing and eye-catching and draws customers to the stores and supports with the basic visual merchandising elements meet the customer needs and creates best in class experiences.
- Create, compile, and deliver on reporting and key information for management and various stakeholders, relating to visual merchandising performance, activity and planning.

**Your responsibilities will include**:
**Visual Merchandising Operational Management**:

- Serve as the central point of support to the trade and regions for end to end in-store visual merchandising and retail marketing execution across branded footprint
- Coordinate and manage distribution on all POS elements on a monthly basis ensuring effective, qualitative and optimal delivery and installation
- Compile and publish Planograms as per segmentation, while ensuring timeously and quality driven communication and execution including general communication that sent to trade.
- Lead and coordinate all booking related to Manufacture promoters in terms of store allocation, services rendered, SLA and compliance levels
- Support and coordinate end to end management of all live display units in stores journeying closely with manufacturers, stores and business units
- Support with providing visual merchandising information for OBI Content Management
- Support with end-to-end visual merchandising aspects (initial and ongoing) for retail store transformation strategic programs (i.e. readiness of VM elements, content, live device process, in-store displays, OEM compliance)
- Ensure timeous and accurate monthly briefing on all visual merchandising elements

**Stakeholder Management**:

- Manage collaboration and engagement with internal and external stakeholders (which includes business units, product manufacturers e.g., Samsung, etc.) ensuring effective and efficient visual merchandising management within the branded channels
- Manage effective relationships being able to engage, communicate and influence at various levels (management, trade partners, business units)
- Support and coordinate visual merchandising work planning with Advertising agency briefing in-store marketing elements

**Reporting Management**:

- Create, compile, and deliver on reporting and key information for management and various stakeholders, relating to visual merchandising performance, activity and planning.
- Manage Retail Cloud system - ensuring all red flags are attended to timeously and consolidate weekly status report
- Ensure the use of digital tools for reporting purposes e.g. Qliksense
- Provide comprehensive and accurate feedback and related reporting to Visual Merchandising Manager
- Matric - essential
- Marketing Diploma or related - essential
- Minimum of 3-5 years related working in experience in a FMCG Retail environment or related visual merchandising roles

**And/or**
- Matric - essential
- Minimum of 5-8 years related working in experience in a FMCG Retail environment or related visual merchandising roles
- Excellent understanding of visual merchandising within the Retail environment is essential
- Understanding of Vodacom’s Retail visual merchandising model is advantageous
- Understanding the different Vodacom business units and the various structures and stakeholders is a strong advantage
- Exposure to dealing with various audience and levels internally and externally is a strong advantage
- Knowledge of visual merchandising standards and methodology

**Core competencies, knowledge and experience**:

- Good computer literacy (MS Office, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Knowledge of systems; EVO, Analytical skills
- High levels of attention to detail
- Problem solving and decision making
- Multiple stakeholde



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