Visual Support Manager North West – INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY

Job title:

Visual Support Manager North West – INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY

Company

JD Sports

Job description

Responsible to : Regional Visual Support ManagerDepartment : RetailLocation : Field BasedRole Overview: The role involves managing day to day visual activity and an integral part of the role is to actively develop a team of competent Town Merchandisers and in store personnel across all designated stores.Key Responsibilities:

• Your key responsibilities are to ensure a high level of visual standard and to make sure a consistent level of visual competence is evident across all designated stores.
• Maintain a high level of visual standard and make sure a consistent level of visual competence is evident across all designated stores.
• You will need to have strong communication to all visual Head Office personnel, Senior Visual Managers, Area / Regional Sales Managers and Town Merchandisers.
• To ensure all guidelines are being followed correctly and all weaknesses are identified and supported to be rectified.
• To maintain brand and seasonal identity in the presentation of product within each department/category through best use of bar work and fixtures.
• Use data, reporting tools and business intelligence to provide commercially sound decision making.
• To support training and development of the Retail teams with regards to technical and commercial VM.

Skills & Experience needed:

• Management level experience is essential and/or have JD Visual Merchandising experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience of working within a fast paced Retail environment is advantageous.
• Ability to manage own workload and prioritise tasks to meet business needs.
• Geographically mobile with the willingness to travel nationwide and on occasion overnight stays.
• Full clean driving license.

The Company:The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia’s in over 36 countries around the world.We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don’t hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasionApplications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.Thank you again for your time.

Expected salary

Location

Bury, Greater Manchester

Job date

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 05:32:28 GMT

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