Head of NA Visual Merchandising

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Primary Purpose:

Responsible for leading the Visual Merchandising strategy and execution in North America across Retail, Outlet and Wholesale. This individual will partner closely with the global visual team, marketing, Field leadership team and buying to adapt global direction to meet the business and customer goals for North America. They will develop and execute training for VM team members and broader field team, help drive new store openings/renovations, and lead the design process of in-store amplifications and pop ups in partnership with global VM. This individual should have strong influencing skills, creativity, and strategic leadership. You will be a part of a dynamic, creative environment where you will interact with cross-functional partners to ensure that Coach's visual merchandising strategy supports the overall business objectives in NA.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Visual Merchandising Leadership to:

• Merchandising & Training
  • Ability to lead team to create strong visual presentations that drive business.
  • Stay up to date on competitive visual and activation trends to glean best practices
  • Evolve global direction to address NA needs in partnership with VP of stores and buying
  • Manage, train and develop the Field VM team & support in-store VM Programs to fuel internal talent
  • Support with store training when necessary to ensure on-brand execution of each monthly delivery
• Identify areas of business opportunities with VP of stores and deliver action plans
  • Fixture needs
  • Merchandising shifts
  • 2D/3D seasonal strategies
• Partner with Marketing to create store roll outs for seasonal messages (2D, 3D, takeovers)
• Work with VP of stores on all new store openings, store re-models in the region
• Manage flow of communication between global visual merchandising, NA VM team, store leadership, and buying through conference calls, touch bases, and store visits
• Leverage creativity and innovation to ensure VM is helping provide a seamless omni experience, and is helping recruit and convert new Gen Z/Young Millenial customers

The accomplished individual will possess:

• Strong communication/leadership skills
• The ability to interpret visual merchandising presentations and relate it back to the store environment and adapt to different store designs and architecture.
• Strong attention to details, e.g., standards, marketing, lighting, fixturing, windows
• The ability to be creative and inspire others.
• Awareness of fashion trends and the ability to interpret them back into visual merchandising.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

An outstanding professional will have:

• Minimum 7 years of area/district visual merchandising experience
• Strong understanding of symmetrical vs. asymmetrical with regard to fixturing and wall scaping.
• Experience facilitating new store openings.
• Proficiency with in Microsoft office (Word, Excel)
• Knowledge of InDesign a plus.
• Strong presentation skills and able to articulate ideas.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage : Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity : Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity : Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy : Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility : Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others:Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams : Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in theirteam; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Coach is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Coach at www.coach.com.

BASE PAY RANGE $115,000.00 TO $180,000.00 Annually
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