District Visual Manager – East
adidas
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ontario • Canada
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About the role
- responsible for providing leadership and direction to a geographic group of stores to meet or exceed Global and North America Visual Merchandising standards
- coaching and developing Store Leadership to drive visual excellence for both visual merchandising and in-store communication tools
- establishing effective and impactful delivery of visual merchandising and product knowledge programs and initiatives across the US Retail organization
- driving and supporting effective implementation of learning solutions/enablers to maximize their effectiveness and impact
- leading and supporting effective implementation of VM solutions as well as driving key KPI’s both from a Brand and Commercial standpoint
- positively communicates and actively demonstrates the Brand Values and NAM Retail Mission
- live a consumer-first mindset, to drive visual excellence across the NAM market
- support and drive the vision and strategy for the fleet facing Visual Merchandising retail organization
- lead the execution of all visual merchandising initiatives with planning and implementation guidelines
- drive flawless execution as the cross-functional lead with merchandising, sourcing, store development and store and fleet operations
- deliver yearly, quarterly, and monthly training needs to the NAM Fleet in partnership with VM Training Managers and Fleet leadership
- track and measure the impact and effectiveness of program implementation and quality of program delivery to provide feedback
Requirements
- 4-year college or university degree in business, retail management, or related field
- Minimum 5 years’ experience working in a sports/fashion customer & commercial focused retail environment
- Store management experience preferred
- Equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in managing high level retail visual merchandising and delivering consumer in-store experience
- Minimum 2 years’ experience managing people
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including evening, overnight and weekend shifts as well as ability to travel up to 60% of the time
Benefits
- health and dental benefits, including prescription drug coverage
- out of country coverage
- short and long-term disability
- basic life and AD&D insurance
- Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
- education assistance program
- fitness reimbursement program
- annual bonus based on both company and personal performance
- increased vacation time with length of service
- Service Awards & Service Time Off during milestone years
- paid bereavement leave
- parental leave top-up to eligible employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
visual merchandisingproduct knowledge programsKPI managementprogram implementationtraining deliveryconsumer in-store experienceretail management
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationstrategic planningflexibilityteam management