National Visual Merchandise Manager

HERTEX FABRICS AND HAUS is a leading supplier of high-quality fabrics, rugs, wallpaper and homeware for both the local and international market. What started in 1987 as a humble Cape Town showroom and has since grown into 15 showrooms nationwide and has recently opened 2  beautiful new retail stores. At Hertex we are a family run business that focuses on achieving excellence in everything we do. As a team, we encourage and support each other and are committed to the success of our customers and the business. At Hertex everyday counts. We communicate with honesty and respect and work relentlessly, with passion and energy.  

We have an exciting vacancy for a National Visual Merchandise Manager, based at our head office in Bellville. This person will be responsible for developing, communicating and delivering visual concepts and strategies to promote our brand and product offering. The individual will be responsible for leading a team of creatives and will report directly to the Creative Director.

We're looking for a great leader and team player, a person full of inspiration – who also knows how to inspire others. You will also train and coach our retail teams about visual merchandising.

The role would be a creative one, whereby the candidate would need to present seasonal concepts and ideas for national rollout, whilst also managing the rollout thereof in our showrooms and retail stores. Whilst collaborating closely with buyers and planners, you will also be working with the marketing team to understand the overall brand concept and promotional calendar.

Main duties:

• Design and implement a creative merchandising strategy.
• Leading a Visual Merchandising team.
• Creating impactful and exciting visual displays which showcase product, drive footfall and revenue.
• Constantly focusing on innovation and creativity to ensure fresh concepts in terms of shopfitting and visual displays.
• Initiating seasonal window concepts and instore merchandising.
• Ensuring alignment to the brand's marketing calendar and that all promotional and product themes are well highlighted and showcased in the store.
• Ensuring themes are rolled out nationally and the various retail teams understand the seasons concepts and are able to execute along with your guidance.
• Building effective working relationships with retail store management and staff to ensure the VM principles are maintained.
• Keeping track of the performance of various styles of merchandise for the purpose of repositioning stock with the objective of improving sales of underperforming merchandise.
• Develop a budget for seasonal campaigns.

Requirements:

• National Senior Certificate
• A relevant qualification (diploma or degree done in visual and retail merchandising/retail management)
• Minimum of 5 years' experience within a retail and visual merchandising environment within a senior/similar role (preferably in the décor/design industry)
• Minimum 5 years' senior management experience, managing/coaching teams within the visual merchandising environment.
• Premium brand experience essential.
• A keen interest in décor and interior design.
• Broad knowledge of all the trends and keeping up to date with future trends.
• A great eye for presenting our collections in an inspiring and commercial way.

Behaviours essential:

• Good Communication Skills
• Resource planning
• Entrepreneurial thinking
• Professionalism & Business etiquette
• Detail orientation & accuracy
• Assertiveness & drive
• Problem solving
• Decision making & prioritising
• Adaptability, tenacity and determination
• Resilience to stress
• Influence & impact
• Contributing to Team success
• Deadline orientated

This role will require extensive travelling to our showrooms nationwide.

We offer a market related salary (with company benefits), depending on experience.

If you are interested and fit the job profile, we would love to hear from you

Kindly forward your CV to [email protected]

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