Visual Merchandising Manager

Serving the needs of all families with young children, Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work, constant learning, genuine people, and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carter's.

VISUAL MERCHANDISING - 40%

-       Conceptualizes and drives innovative visual approaches across multiple store formats that deliver sales results.

-       Understands key strategic business initiatives; develops and executes ways to support through Visual Merchandising/Presentation and fixture/prop roll outs.

-       Overseas all aspects of floor-set execution, from pre-buy work with buying team to final communication to field team for execution.

-       Incorporate and communicate key strategic business initiatives through Visual Merchandising and Presentation.

-       Participate in weekly business review meetings with the Buying team and make recommendations to support the business need based current trends, pricing, and strategies.

-       Lead & facilitate the set-up of merchandise statements in our Satelite store that are compelling, easy for customers to understand and easy for the stores to execute.

-       Set new product and marketing in-store for corporate leadership review.

-       Partner and collaborate with buying and marketing team to drive relevant / necessary in-store marketing that supports floor set, buy strategy and global marketing campaign. 

-       Develops and executes visual presentations for special projects and corporate events as needed including Holiday, Spring, Halloween, Buen Fin and sell ins.  

-       Leads idea generation, sampling and developing seasonal displays and the sourcing of props to deliver presentation.

-       Works with outside venders while sampling, sourcing and procuring visual props. Manages and presents costing comparisons on props, pop vendors, and all expenses involving visual merchandising.

-       Travels to stores for special initiatives, new store openings, hands-on Visual Merchandising training and work throughs as needed.

MANAGEMENT OF PROCESS - 30%

-       Key stakeholder / business owner and decision maker for the Visual Merchandising team.

-       Manage full aspect of floor-set process, from pre-buy work to final communication.

VISUAL MERCHANDISING - 40%

• Conceptualizes and drives innovative visual approaches across multiple store formats that deliver sales results.
• Understands key strategic business initiatives; develops and executes ways to support through Visual Merchandising/Presentation and fixture/prop roll outs.
• Overseas all aspects of floor-set execution, from pre-buy work with buying team to final communication to field team for execution.
• Incorporate and communicate key strategic business initiatives through Visual Merchandising and Presentation.
• Participate in weekly business review meetings with the Buying team and make recommendations to support the business need based current trends, pricing, and strategies.
• Lead & facilitate the set-up of merchandise statements in our Satelite store that are compelling, easy for customers to understand and easy for the stores to execute.
• Set new product and marketing in-store for corporate leadership review.
• Partner and collaborate with buying and marketing team to drive relevant / necessary in-store marketing that supports floor set, buy strategy and global marketing campaign. 
• Develops and executes visual presentations for special projects and corporate events as needed including Holiday, Spring, Halloween, Buen Fin and sell ins.  
• Leads idea generation, sampling and developing seasonal displays and the sourcing of props to deliver presentation.
• Works with outside venders while sampling, sourcing and procuring visual props. Manages and presents costing comparisons on props, pop vendors, and all expenses involving visual merchandising.
• Travels to stores for special initiatives, new store openings, hands-on Visual Merchandising training and work throughs as needed.

MANAGEMENT OF PROCESS - 30%

• Key stakeholder / business owner and decision maker for the Visual Merchandising team.
• Manage full aspect of floor-set process, from pre-buy work to final communication.
• Action relevant changes based on outcome of weekly business review meetings with the Buying team.  (Tasks, PCD, Floor Adjustments, influence change that balances brand and promotion)
• Lead weekly buy meeting impacting quarterly strategy and blueprint layouts.   Offer solutions and action changes in a timely manner to influence buy and evolution of current & future presentations.
• Lead all floorset walkthroughs to creative leadership and buying and store operations team.
• Manage computer files and facilitate visual process, expenses of own business.

COMMUNICATION TO STORES - 30%

• Create, execute and communicates merchandise blueprints, visual directives and window / campaign directives that align to design, merchandising and global marketing campaigns.
• Responsible for documenting those statements in words and pictures and communicating them to our national chain of retail stores.
• Overseas all content communication to the field related to Visual Merchandising accountable for all content and output.
• Builds training materials, standard manuals and videos for field team.

Other responsabilities,

• Manages full process of Visual Merchandising presentation, from pre-buy to the end presentation in store ensuing design and merchant vision comes to life in our retail environment.
• Sell in set up for wholesale.
• Overseas all aspects of bi-monthly VMD, builds timelines, milestones, provides content, proofs & edits documentation ensuring print and store ops deadlines are met.