Chief Manager - Visual Merchandiser

As the Chief Manager Visual Merchandiser, you will be responsible for leading the implementation of the brand's visual merchandising strategy in a designated zone in India. You should be a dynamic and experienced professional with a background in fashion or retail, possessing extensive knowledge of visual merchandising best practices. Your leadership skills will be crucial in managing large teams spread across different regions, aiming to enhance customer experience, maintain brand consistency, and improve commercial performance through engaging visual displays. Your key responsibilities will include: - Translating national visual merchandising strategies into effective zonal plans that align with regional business goals and customer behavior. - Developing and executing strategic visual merchandising plans that directly contribute to sales performance, footfall, conversion rates, and visual appeal. - Leading business-centric visual merchandising planning across a large geographical area and providing performance feedback to senior leadership. - Collaborating with various teams to ensure alignment of store grading, product catalogues, and visual merchandising execution with zone-specific requirements. - Overseeing the timely and effective execution of marketing and promotional campaigns, and providing feedback on their effectiveness and customer response. - Working with Projects and Planning teams to provide inputs on store layouts, fixture plans, and visual flow for new store openings and refurbishments. - Managing and developing regional visual merchandisers, creating succession pipelines, and driving team engagement. - Serving as a key liaison with senior management, representing zonal visual merchandising in strategic discussions and planning forums. - Staying updated on market trends, infusing innovation into the visual merchandising strategy, and optimizing resources to maximize impact and efficiency. - Delivering structured reports and dashboards showcasing visual merchandising compliance, business impact, campaign performance, and ROI, utilizing data to improve planning and execution. Skills required for this role include proven experience in leading visual merchandising teams, expertise in window displays, signage, and interior layouts, strong visual design skills, project management abilities, stakeholder collaboration skills, critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and organizational adaptability. Ideally, you should have 10 to 12 years of experience in visual merchandising within the apparel segment to be considered for this position.,