McQueen_VM Manager, North-Southeast Asia-Pacific (NSEA)

Job description

Job Family Group Description - Merchandising: Includes all jobs responsible for selection, availability and visibility of brands’ collections and products within a given territory or for a given sales channel. Job Family Description -Visual Merchandising: Ensures product visibility, store display, layout and signs are aligned with brand style. Supports the development of designs and creation of physical material needed for events, campaigns and/or special events, following creative guidelines and style guide.

Alexander McQueen is a British luxury fashion house founded by Lee Alexander McQueen in 1992. In 2001, the house joined the Kering Group and, since December 2023, is under the creative direction of Seán McGirr.

Alexander McQueen is distinctive for an expression of individuality, subversive strength and raw power. With a design studio and atelier based in London, the house is known for uncompromising quality and creative vision.

At Alexander McQueen, we live and breathe a culture defined by our key Behaviours:

·  Empowerment – We empower our team and peers, providing unwavering support to ensure everyone can thrive; this means giving support to your team and those you are working with to succeed.
·  Teamwork – We put an emphasis on Teamwork; this means working together as a collective to achieve shared goals.
·  Respect – We value respect, treating everyone with dignity and showing genuine appreciation for their efforts: this means treating everyone equally.
·  Kindness – We believe kindness is integral to everything we do; this means demonstrating compassion and empathy towards others. 

ROLE

VM Manager, North-Southeast Asia-Pacific (NSEA) ensures that all stores across your region duly adhere to the McQueen guidelines when implementing collections and completing in-store merchandising. Reporting directly to head of merchandidsing of NSEA, you will build strong relationships with the retail teams and dedicate time in stores to ensure that the brand’s image and VM directives are embedded and enforced across the region.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

·  Support in creating detailed Visual Merchandising guidelines to be distributed to our regional network of retail stores, ensuring that these accurately capture the creative vision and direction, before cascading to our regions and local stores
·  Closely follow up with the HQ to ensure consistency of VM implementation and guarantee excellent implementation, gathering feedback and presenting to the corporate VM team
·  Collaborate with the corporate retail operations, merchandising and buying teams to ensure that the retail teams have the necessary information and materials
·  Act as first line support for VM queries, regional and retail teams; responding to all queries in a timely manner, escalating where appropriate
·  Responsible for providing team administrative assistance including, but not limited to, managing expenses, travel/hotels/visas, raising purchase orders, stationery orders and supporting the WW VM Director with diary management
·  Store set ups when necessary, including window installations.
·  Maintain display materials/prop inventory and coordinate orders for a regional network of stores including existing and new store openings.
·  Oversee the NSEA region’s VM budget, maintaining a comprehensive spreadsheet throughout the year to monitor and control spend
·  Collate, present and file store photo summaries to the VM team.

PROFILE

·  Good working knowledge of PowerPoint
·  Excellent knowledge of Excel and experience in maintaining a budget file
·  Knowledge of Photoshop/InDesign (desirable)
·  Exceptional organisational skills with a high level of attention to detail
·  Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Japanese
·  Ability to prioritise effectively to ensure all deadlines and met
·  Flexible and able to manage complexity

·  Full time
·  Asie
·  Japan