Visual Merchandising Manager, Women's & Girl's

About us:

vineyard vines is a highly successful, privately held, American clothing and accessory retailer founded in 1998 on Martha’s Vineyard by brothers, Shep & Ian Murray. With Shep & Ian still at the helm today, vineyard vines has experienced exponential year over year growth and now operates over 120 retail locations including an outlet division, a successful e-commerce business, domestic distribution center, and expanding corporate headquarters. In addition, vineyard vines is carried in major department stores such as Nordstrom and Bloomingdales as well as numerous specialty boutiques across the US.

vineyard vines was founded on a state of mind that Every day should feel this good.

You don’t need to be on a beach, by the ocean or on vacation to have Every day should feel this good moments. It’s a state of mind that we all experience, and one where everyone is invited. At vineyard vines, we don’t just live an #EDSFTG life away from our desks—we bring it to work with us, too.

In our stores, at our Harbor Drive headquarters or working remotely, our company culture is fun, encouraging and welcoming to all. We work hard and play harder, and we never take ourselves too seriously. And while we have many company goals, our number one priority is making vineyard vines a great place to work for all employees.

Our team is our family, and we’d never have grown to where we are today without them.

We’re committed to building an inclusive team across all channels, departments and stores within our community. We hope you’ll join us and see what the smiling pink whale is all about.

Overview:

The Visual Manager for Women’s & Girls is responsible for working cross-functionally to ensure business initiatives and visual strategies are supported in all retail compass sets through visual merchandising, creative installs and in store marketing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads visual team on the execution of the overall visual merchandising strategy by partnering with merchandising teams to address business needs.
• Owns sample turnovers and business driver meetings to learn the assortments and important buys at the start of the buy process and at time of floorsets
• Partners with product merchandising and marketing teams to align on and request signage needed for each visual set to drive sales in key categories
• Works with with creative and concept partners on uppers, displays and window marketing to assure it sits back to the product
• Partners with creative and merchandising teams on key looks to assure we’re moving the brand forward and driving positive results
• Works with PLC calendar team to coordinates key dates for walk throughs and set meetings and approvals for all compass sets
• Assists with creative and other installation pieces in the quarterly line adoption and compass sets.
• Will attend new store openings, special events and large installs when needed as visual merchandising lead and/or for creative installations
• Will attend store walk-throughs and in-store meetings as the visual merchandising lead
• Organizes workshops and in person/virtual training sessions to teach visual merchandising and creative techniques (“train the trainer”).
• Assists with workshops and in person / virtual training sessions to develop the field team and teach visual merchandising techniques
• Contributes to and approves the monthly compass documents and all visual merchandising updates

What you bring:

• Minimum 5 years experience as Visual Merchandiser or related experience
• Demonstrated visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio
• Solid experience in field visual merchandising, including window displays, signs, interior displays and space utilization
• Ability to install creative (patch & paint, hanging, displays, etc.)
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite - InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator. Other visual design tools are a plus.
• Knowledge of current visual merchandising trends and best practices
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Creative and innovative thinker
• Ability to analyze sales merchandising reports and survey results
• Strong listening, written and oral communication skills required
• Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy required
• Ability to react quickly with a strong sense of urgency*
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing priorities
• Able to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Ability to innovate and challenge current norms to drive positive change and efficacy
• Experience in customer and trend direction to inform both assortment strategy, and decision making
• Team-oriented mentality with the ability to interact with partners across the organization at all levels
• Ability to lift 50 pounds

Every day will feel this good because:

• We have a fun-spirited entrepreneurial culture filled with truly “good” people
• We have flexible working hours and work from home days to accommodate your personal life
• We offer a generous employee discount so you can rep our lifestyle on-and-off the boat
• We offer a competitive salary package, 401-K, commuter benefits, and paid-family leave, health savings , flex spending accounts, life & disability insurance
• We have an onsite gym as well as health & financial wellness programs to keep you active
• We offer 2 summer Fridays to take off in addition to a competitive vacation policy & holiday calendar