National Visual Merchandising Manager

6 months ago

Durban, South Africa JAM Clothing Full time

**JAM is no ordinary Company. The words, conventional and average are not part of our vocabulary.**

**It takes a front footed, passionate person to exceed in JAM. We love people that think out the box & who are able to bring the best out of other people whilst maintaining world class standards.**

**So if you want to work hard and make your life count then JAM is the place to be.**
- **Criteria**:_
- Matric
- Relevant Tertiary qualification
- 5 years experience as a Visual Merchandising Manager
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent visual merchandising skills
- Exceptional people skills
- Attention to detail
- Good planning and organizing skills
- Must live the company values - Real, Value, People

**Duties**

**Visual Merchandising**
- Investigating the industries best practice and initiatives in relation to new ideas and trends.
- Identifying and making use of all opportunities to improve the overall visual appeal of stores of stores, thereby maximizing trade.
- Develops merchandise strategy for group, ensuring the best value for business and a uniform image across all stores.
- Ensure that the company merchandise is displayed effectively.
- Creating effective merchandise strategies to get a return on trading space.
- Create and updates merchandising tools, merchandise guide, merchandise key controls, Store Managers merchandise checklist.
- Ensures that all stores are optimizing floor trading space to increase the trading densities.
- Clear understanding of all stores and product to maximise the potential of certain product lines

**New Store Openings**
- Liaise closely with buyer/director to ensure product type is in line with the location and demographics
- Developing subtle strategies with new store opening promotional product to introduce customers to the brand and the optimise the chances of them repurchasing
- Ensuring the combination of great product skills and being analytical to increase sales.
- Ensuring that the stock holding is aligned with the sales target.
- Supervising the execution of all signage, graphics and visual elements.
- Create floor plan and layout to dictate the flow of customer traffic and shopping habits.
- Departments are located correctly to maximise sales.

**Markdowns and Odds**
- Responsible for the execution within all stores.
- Conducts regular store visits and spot checks to ensure compliance around markdowns and price changes.
- Maximising company sales and reducing further markdowns by implementing correct location, merchandising and timeous implementation throughout all stores.

**Training and Development**
- Facilitates merchandise workshops to ensure that all Area Managers and Store managers are trained and aligned with the groups visual merchandising strategies.
- Management of a Visual Merchandise team and responsible for their overall development and performance
- Trains best practices on customer service skills, store standards and selling points.
- Conducting regular store visits ensuring all staff are fully trained.

**Product Knowledge**
- Analyze product in 1-star stores to formulate a turnaround strategy.
- Works closely with Buyer/Planner to maximize profitability with core/seasonal product.
- Identify unproductive stock across stores to formulate clearance promotions / stock movements.
- Constant communication with Planning team to ensure stores are stocked according to turnover required.

**People Management**
- Clearly and concisely communicate business and operational objectives to VM team so that they remain well informed of business activity and of their required contribution to targets
- Develops an effective network of communication to ensure shared knowledge and understanding of business activity
- Recruits accurately profiled staff and ensures the full implementation of induction programmes for newly recruited staff
- Effectively manages the performance and development of staff to drive and maximise the sales performance
- Identify and implements training interventions in order to achieve exceptional stock service levels across all stores
- Plan for succession in the business through the identification of individuals with potential for development and growth
- Create a positive environment that results in employee retention and a reduction of staff turnover
- Manage with HR, any employee relations issues which may arise within your team, including the counselling, discipline and grievance processes, within the framework of applicable labour legislation and company policies.

Please respond with the following:

- Updated CV

**Pump up the JAM, pump up your CAREER, pump up your LIFE**

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Durban, KwaZulu-Natal: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Education**:

- Certificate (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Visual Merchandising Management: 5 years (required)

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