District Visual Manager - East Job at Adidas (Ontario)

Job Description

This role is responsible for providing leadership and direction to a geographic group of stores to meet or exceed Global and North America Visual Merchandising standards. This role is responsible for coaching and developing Store Leadership to drive visual excellence for both visual merchandising and in-store communication tools. The District Visual Merchandising Manager establishes effective and impactful delivery of visual merchandising and product knowledge programs and initiatives across the US Retail organization, driving and supporting effective implementation of learning solutions/enablers to maximize their effectiveness and impact. This role leads and supports effective implementation of VM solutions as well as driving key KPI’s both from a Brand and Commercial standpoint.

Job Responsibility

Positively communicates and actively demonstrates the Brand Values and NAM Retail Mission
Live a consumer-first mindset, to drive visual excellence across the NAM market
Support and drive the vision and strategy for the fleet facing Visual Merchandising retail organization
Lead the execution of all visual merchandising initiatives with planning and implementation guidelines
Drive flawless execution as the cross-functional lead with merchandising, sourcing, store development and store and fleet operations
Deliver yearly, quarterly, and monthly training needs to the NAM Fleet in partnership with VM Training Managers and Fleet leadership
Drive rollout strategy for campaigns, launches, modules, manuals, directives, onboarding etc
Track and measure the impact and effectiveness of program implementation and quality of program delivery to provide feedback to Regional Visual Merchandising Manager, Director of Visual Merchandising, and the Directors of Merchandising
Utilize the reporting tools to submit recap reports, track requests, and review store reports to ensure executional excellence at retail
Visit stores to role model and assess learning culture and behaviors, and to deliver trainings that amplify Visual Merchandising and Product knowledge to drive Brand and commercial outcomes
Support recruitment of Visual Excellence team in NAM, including visual merchandising staff at DTC doors
Communicate clear expectations and guidelines to store teams to successfully achieve targets
Coach, motivate and inspire and Store VM Leaders and teams to accomplish goals, maximize their individual performance, and increase store profitability through Visual Merchandising
Display the leadership framework through coaching and developing talent, evaluating, and providing feedback to promote high engagement and a high-performance culture

Requirements

4-year college or university degree in business, retail management, or related field
Minimum 5 years’ experience working in a sports/fashion customer & commercial focused retail environment. Store management experience preferred
Minimum 2 years’ experience in managing high level retail visual merchandising and delivering consumer in-store experience
Minimum 2 years’ experience managing people
Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including evening, overnight and weekend shifts as well as ability to travel up to 60% of the time
Proven passion for visual merchandising
Knowledge of retail landscape, training methods, visual merchandising, retail marketing and presentation
Strong project management and planning skills. Highly organized with demonstrated follow through capabilities
Knowledge and understanding of profit and loss statement and store KPIs to make commercial decisions based on sound financial judgment
Strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to lead discussions in diverse groups of varying size
Ability to think conceptually, in strategic terms and diagnose and translate sales/category reporting to an in-store merchandising strategy
Knowledge of customer service principles and processes
Ability to learn and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment
Demonstrates an inspirational attitude that contributes to a positive team environment with the ability to inspire and motivate a team to achieve established objectives
Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with team members
Excellent MS Office skills
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear
The employee frequently is required to stand
walk
use hands to finger, handle, or feel
and reach with hands and arms
The employee is occasionally required to sit
climb or balance
and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus

What we offer

health and dental benefits, including prescription drug coverage, out of country coverage, short and long-term disability, basic life and AD&D insurance, and an Employee & Family Assistance Program
Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
education assistance program
fitness reimbursement program
annual bonus based on both company and personal performance
increasing vacation time with length of service
Service Awards & Service Time Off during milestone years
paid bereavement leave
parental leave top-up to eligible employees

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