Visual Merchandiser Manager

**Company Description**
& Other Stories is a fashion brand offering women a wide range of shoes, bags, accessories, jewellery, lingerie, beauty products, stationary and ready-to-wear to create their personal style, or story. Our creative ateliers in Paris and Stockholm design diversified fashion collections with great attention to detail and quality at an affordable price.

We are looking for a **Visual Merchandiser Manager** based in Singapore. This is a hybrid role, based in store and supporting the Singapore market.
**Job Description** What you will do**:
As a Visual Merchandiser Manager you are responsible to deliver smooth visual operations to facilitate an inspirational customer environment in your store(s). Your contribution will actively drive sales & profit through you and your teams. You would work closely with your Store Manager and additionally support the South East Asia Sales team.

You are responsible to coordinate the visual planning for your store(s). You act as the market visual specialist being the link between store Visual Merchandisers and Global VM. You support the market with travel to office & store(s) up to 40% of the time and collaborate with the Omni Sales Team on how to optimize the store experience and commercial plan.

**_ Your responsibilities:_**

The job of a Visual Merchandiser Manager comes with a wide range of responsibilities and lots of rewards. Your to-do list includes:

- Lead, coach and develop a team of Visual Merchandisers to create an inspirational shopping experience.
- Maximising selling by analysing sales reports and taking action accordingly.
- Responsible for store planning of visual tasks and operations according to key campaigns and activities.
- Conduct store visits and collate photos of VM work to share with the Regional Team & Global Visual.
- Connect with Retail Experience Manager to share input and initiatives on customer experience in stores.
- Ensuring that our products are displayed according to company guidelines, promotional activities and seasonal trends together with your store team(s).
- Creating visually inspiring in-store and window displays which reflect and maintain our brand identity.
- Plan and co-ordinate local activations with the support from local Retail, PR & Marketing Teams.
- Initiate and host Training Workshops for Visual Merchandisers and trainees.
- Support any Visual related recruitments and build VM talent pipeline.
- Managing the ordering, handling and organisation of all display materials.
- Ensuring that safety, security and administrative routines are followed.
- Acting as a senior manager in the store, supporting the management team with daily operations, opening and closing routines.

**Qualifications**
We believe that you are a strong team player who fosters collaboration and coaches others to strive and deliver a strong customer experience.

**What you need to succeed**:

- 3+ years of experience in Visual Merchandising.
- Has leadership experience/qualities and is a natural team player with straightforward communication skills.
- Proven organizational and analytical skills.
- Action driven with a commercial thinking to drive best customer offer and results.
- Curious and excited about finding and testing new ways to optimize our customer experience and selling.
- Driven, structured team player who successfully takes own initiatives to drive the business.
- Fluent in written and spoken English is a requirement.

**Additional Information**
This is a** full-time** job, which is located in Singapore. This role is based in store and reports directly to the Store Manager and with your additional support to the South East Asia Sales Team.

**Benefits**

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound.

Additionally, what’s in it for you:

- 25% Staff Discount within the H&M Group
- Twice a year a staff allowance to shop the newest season
- Paid Vacation Days
- Competitive salary
- Endless development opportunities
- Plus more external/local benefits