Visual Merchandising Manager

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Ready to bring passion into your career?

A global leading skincare and make-up company, Clarins Group is the embodiment of a committed family history, with a fierce passion for innovation and spirit of independence. Its raison d’être is "making life more beautiful, passing on a more beautiful planet".

Operating in more than 150 countries, we are now the number one skincare company in Europe and are accelerating our development on all other continents, particularly in Asia and the Americas.

Because our 8,000 talents are unique, we are committed to promoting diversity in all its forms.

Do you want to help write the next chapter of our story? 

Role and Area Of Responsibilities

Visual Merchandising:

• Developing and implement the merchandising plans to drive sales and profitability.
• Collaboration with buyers to select and purchase products that meet customer demand.
• Planning and implementing visual merchandising concepts and guidelines.
• Managing inventory levels and stock replenishment related to capex to meet customer demand.
• Working with vendors to negotiate pricing, terms, and executions.
• Training and supervising local merchandising staff and Travel Retail Beauty Coaches to ensure compliance with brand standards.
• Monitoring and reporting on the performance of merchandising initiatives.
• Staying up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in merchandising. Collecting relevant information from the markets when required and sharing with Global TR.
• Conduct market visit across major market
• Oversee the project, planning, and execution of Retail, counters, window displays, in-store displays, and animation installations / exposure.
• Ensuring compliance with safety and regulation requirement based on malls policies and Civil Aviation/Retailer guidelines in Travel Retail.
• Adaptation and distribution of in store visual merchandising guidelines.
• Forecasting all necessary POSM/POP for new and existing permanent POS, promotional sites, and events. Local POP development.
• Supporting TR Director and providing all necessary VM-related information during Budget periods. Prepare POP budget.
• Creating planograms for Travel Retail and sharing with relevant POS. Providing Customers and BCs with merch guidelines for each launch.
• Updating Visuals in POS as per VM plan.

Design and Construction of CAPEX / Permanent fixtures:

• Approves Commercial manager’s Project Request Form before submitted to Paris (Commercial manager submits to Paris) and leads the entire CAPEX process for Travel Retail.
• Advises on Phase 1 Drawing received from Paris (before sent to retailers).
• Co-ordinates quotation processes with local contractors. Requesting a minimum of 3 quotes per projects.
• Negotiates with contractors prioritising costs optimisation and adheres to pre-approved budget plans.
• Evaluating and onboarding new potential suppliers.
• LPO: raises all VM related LPOs in the system; supplies LPO to appointed contractor.
• Reviews detailed drawings from contractor before they are validated by sharing with Paris.
• In general, oversees the production, conducts regular inspections, installation and merchandising of main counter for local doors, across markets. Obtains necessary approvals and airport passes from retailers and departments of Civil Aviation.
• In case of smaller projects, adapts existing designs to cover new needs (in a first stage, to be fine-tunes according to work load).
• Participates to Monthly Merchandising meetings and shares important information with the local teams.

CSR :

Follow brand CSR strategy, track all local POP production, provide monthly CSR report (as per approved reporting format).  

Candidate Profile:

• Education/Degree:
  B.S. Architecture

• Background including total years of experience
  5+ years of experience in a similar role

• Technical skills:
  Freehand sketching/render, CAD(drafting and design) 3d render (sketchup), Multimedia applications (Photoshop, illustrator, Premiere), MS office applications, Displayer application and architectural design.

• Soft and Leadership Skills:
  Adaptability, team player, self-aware, result oriented, listening skills, pro-active, negotiation, optimistic, synergetic, written and oral communication skills, oral presentation, resourceful, critical thinking, creativity, problem solving and decision making.

• Skilled in planning, managing budgets, timelines, and external teams (contractors)
  
  
• Frequent Travel in GC MENA region require

Languages: 

• English

If you have a curious mind, a thirst to go further and the drive to boldly take on new challenges, join us.

About Clarins Group

A B-Corp certified global leading skincare and make-up company, Clarins group is the embodiment of a committed family history, with a fie&rce passion for innovation and spirit of independence. Our purpose "making life more beautiful, passing on a more beautiful planet," is a core commitment outlined in our by-laws.

Operating in more than 150 countries thanks to our 8,000 employees worldwide, we are now the number one skincare company in Europe and are accelerating our development on all other continents, particularly in Asia and the Americas.

In line with our dual CSR mission of ‘Caring for people, caring for the planet’ we take pride in offering a rewarding yet challenging work environment where everyone can thrive.

This culture allowed us to achieve the certification of Forbes' World’s Best Employers 2024 and Forbes' World’s Best Employers 2024.

To learn more about our group and our commitments to people, visit www.groupeclarins.com.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe in making life more beautiful for our employees and our customers.

Inclusion and diversity are firmly grounded in our core values. We strive to achieve inclusiveness, and we foster an equal-opportunity culture where everyone can reach their full potential and do their best

work.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are a member of the ILO (International Labor Organization) and the Employers Network for Equity and Inclusion (ENEI).