Regional Visual Coach ( Regional Visual Merchandiser)- Central Regions

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Location: Field Visual Coach - Central Regional About us

At New Look, our mission is to help people look good and feel great. When it comes to people who work for us, we want individuals to express themselves in an environment where change and new ideas are celebrated. This is because we truly believe every person who works here contributes to our future and where we go.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Accountable for the visual strategy delivery across the region, by ensuring consistent layouts and implementation of the visual and POS guidelines.

• Responsibility for coaching and developing store teams, to improve the visual and commercial strength of stores.

• Produce and deliver a Field Visual Coach strategy across the region to agree training, focus stores, to ensure effective working and protecting/driving sales. Set key KPI’s to measure success.

• Monitor “red”, “amber” and “green “stores pulling together an action plan alongside the RBM to improve.

• Deliver the visual training modules in your region as well as within concept stores.

• Responsible for delivering and communication of model store, to ensure store teams are able to deliver a successful phase launch to the required standard.

• Outside model store communicate key RP seasonal layout messages to RBM’s and store teams to ensure successful delivery of changes.

• Review in store merchandising guidelines and recommend appropriate actions for future communications, by feeding back to the Office VM team.

• Regular store visits to review and improve implementation of layouts, guidelines and windows.

• Agree layouts for all stores in the region in conjunction with the RBM.

• Responsible for producing layout plans for new and concept stores on the region.

• Responsible for attending on site live projects across the region, to ensure the visual strategy is fully delivered to the expected standard.

• Review weekly performance on Concept stores to ensure correct layouts and changes are working appropriately. Produce action plan alongside RBM if improvements required.

• Is the point of contact for store teams / RBM queries relating to the Visual and POS strategy.

• Review competitors in the market place for merchandising, layouts and POS and provide recommends to the office VM team.

• Co-ordinates the sharing of success and best practices from stores with the wider Field Visual Coaches and retail office VM team.

• Attendance at key events, i.e. conferences, road-shows, seasonal briefs located around the country.

Technical and Behavioural Skills

• Excellent visual merchandising skills gained from New Look or other high street retailers.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to get the best out of people.

• Presentation skills essential

• Sound PC skills ( word, excel and power point )

• A sound understanding of store operations couples with a good general commercial awareness

Knowledge & Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a visual role.

• Must hold a valid U.K driving licence.

Measures / Key Performance Indicator’s

• Delivery of concept stores

• Delivery of the visual strategy in the region and improving key focus stores

• Improved scores on snap shot and marketing research produced monthly.

Key Relationships

Internally

• Retail

• Marketing

• BMD

• Office Visual team

Benefits

• 50% Staff Discount

• Company car

• Discretionary Bonus Scheme

• Life Assurance

• Medical Healthcare

• 23 days holiday

• Group Pension Scheme (Contribution Match)