Visual Merchandising Specialist: Women

7 months ago


Blackheath, South Africa Ackermans Full time

We are offering a compelling opportunity for a VM Specialist: Woman at our Support Centre in Kuilsriver. We seek a resilient, efficient, and confident individual to spearhead the implementation of Ackermans' VM Strategy through effective Visual Merchandising in Ackermans Woman stores. Additionally, the role involves overseeing the roll-out of VM elements from Woman stores to Top stores.

**KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED**:

- Knowledge of VM best practices and principles, techniques and VM trends as well an excellent grasp of customer behavior.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- An excellent comprehension of the marketing strategies, branding, customer behaviour and principles relevant to value retailing, as well as a practical grasp of the South African industry.
- Working knowledge of electronic and print communications.

**SKILLS REQUIRED**:

- Project Management
- Excellent organizational, planning, project management, and time management expertise.
- Self-reliant, self-motivated, results orientated and have an ability to achieve goals and meet deadlines.
- Well developed interpersonal skills - the ability to interact and infleunce effectively at all levels.
- A strong creative flair
- Effective problem solving abilities with the ability to think out of the box.
- Practical thinking style
- Computer Literacy
- Basic Photography

**EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**:
Essential:

- A minimum of 2 years’ Visual Merchandising role within a Fashion Retail environment.

Preferred:

- Exposure within a Marketing environment would be advantageous.
- Experience in Fashion photography would be advantageous

**QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED**:
Essential:

- A Grade 12 Certificate/Matric
- A tertiary qualification in Visual Communication Design or equivalent.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
1. To deliver on the VM Business Plan for Ackermans Woman Standalone - and Ackermans Top stores
- Lead effective merchandising of stock to encourage maximum sales.
- Promote healthy business relationships between operations, marketing & SBU’s through constant alignment
- Executions of relevant interventions to be focused on ease of execution for store staff.
- User friendly store communication
- Specifications rather than principal.

2. Process development and management of information between marketing, fashion office and stores.
- Act between VM and the Trend and Design offer to ensure the delivery of business needs.
- Stakeholder Management / User Rating
- Deadlines met
- In line with strategy
- To specification - work meets brief
- Agreed process followed: Monthly Instructional Manual.

3.** **Operations Communications (Woman Standalone
- and Top Stores):

- Manage the Monthly Instructional Manual process through collaborating with the relevant stakeholders, collating of information and briefing the DTP Operators accordingly.
- Stakeholder Management / User Rating
- On time
- Quality of work - work is user friendly with a strong focus on accuracy and the use of appropriate company language.
- In line with Promotional Manual process.
- Cost conscious

4. Training
- Partner with the T&D team to compile relevant training material
- Material is user friendly and easy to implement
- Accuracy
- Up to date
- Identify and training needs/gaps
- Effectively train the DVMs monthly on Instructional Manual (Skype, conference calls, etc.)

5. VM photography shoots
- Coordinate photoshoots
- Ensure that relevant photos are taken to compile the Monthly Instructional Manual for stores.
- Stakeholder Management / alignment of all relevant parties



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