Retail Store Visual Merchandising Manager, Fabletics (Westfield Century City - Los Angeles, CA)

Job Description

Fabletics is seeking a passionate and driven Retail Store Visual Merchandising Manager for our NEW Fabletics Retail Store at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles, CA!

General Purpose of the Position:

To create a unique and impactful shopping experience at the Fabletics retail stores while understanding the importance of a strong branded environment to support business objectives. This role is responsible for the quality and consistency of visual merchandising at NorthPark Center. This position requires extensive in-store merchandising and an ability to merge commercial and aesthetic concerns through the improvement of in-store appearance; interpreting playbooks to enhance the store atmosphere, the guest experience, and business goals. The Associate Visual Merchandising Manager will be an important business partner to the store management team and will need to demonstrate agility and excellent communication in day-to-day tasks and projects.

How you’ll play to Win

• Maintain and elevate visual displays across the sales floor.

• Maintain RFID replenishment compliance.

• Support window installations; working with store team and installation vendors, providing visual merchandising support to animate and enhance window installations.

• Partner with store team, Regional Directors, Director of Field Visual, and corporate partners to address sales challenges and formulate strategies, leveraging visual display to action them.

• Act as a liaison of communication between corporate direction and store level execution. Responsible for the visual impact by following, interpreting, and translating corporate direction while remaining consistent with weekly, monthly, and seasonal brand direction.

• Manage the brand aesthetic so that appropriate substitutions and adaptations can be made to merchandise presentations, interior displays, fixture placement, and mannequin styling based on product ownership, business needs, and store specific architecture.

• Communicate & partner with HQ Visual teams to plan, oversee, and execute product placement, fixture layouts, displays and window installations for any corporate floorset roll outs (monthly/seasonal).

• Conduct VM training guidance for the store team during daily, weekly, and monthly store meetings to be conducted by speaking in large store team group settings.

• Identify and follow up of preventative store deficiencies including broken/chipped fixtures & mannequins, paint, façade damages, lighting issues, overall fixture needs etc.

• Reinforce back of house organization, maintenance, and cataloguing of all visual props, mannequins, and fixtures; ownership of all physical merchandise inventory from initial delivery to RTW (inbound/outbound product).

• Participate in corporate/field leadership visits with ability to present and discuss any visual successes and/or opportunities within your location.

• Occasionally travel to support other locations as needed.

• Assist with new store opening and renovations as needed.

• Support HQ floorset as needed.

Deliverables: 

• Identify opportunities and develop solutions that will help drive business results for your location.

• Analyze inventory of key categories and communicate any product needs in the areas of depth and assortment to Store/District Manager.

• Utilize sales reports to track, analyze, and react to business trends, ensuring store meets or exceeds financial plan and payroll goals.

• Partner with HQ teams to hindsight any opportunities or successes of corporate marketing, product, or visual merchandising initiatives.

What you bring to the team

• Ability to understand and interpret merchandise presentation direction that can support high volume and flagship stores.

• Strong strategic planning and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize to deadlines with agility and nimbleness.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong attention to detail with an entrepreneurial disposition.

• High level leadership skills with the ability to communicate effectively and graciously with all levels within the organization (corporate office and field leadership).

• Strong influencing, problem analysis, and decision-making skills.

• Proficient in Microsoft 365, Adobe Creative Suites, Mac iOS