Manager, Trade Area Visual Merchandise - Chicago

About Bloomingdale’s makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We will always strive to make Bloomingdale’s like no other store in the world. Everyone plays a critical role to bring our mission to life. Regardless of position, we believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial and collaborative. We welcome and embrace diversity of background, thought and opinion while having a lot of fun along the way.

 

Job Overview Be on the front lines of a store like no other as part of our store management team: you’ll lead, manage and inspire a diverse team, balancing creativity with commerce to execute in-store success. Part business consultant, part relationship guru, and 100% leader, you’ll contribute and collaborate to drive the business forward. The Trade Area Visual Merchandise Manager (TAVMM) inspires and guides the store team to deliver environments filled with creative energy and aspirational yet approachable style. Your role model a strong creative sense of fashion leadership balanced with an understanding of metric driven commerce. The TAVMM drives front of house planning in both your primary store and the trade area locations to ensure day in/day out merchandise presentation techniques and promotional events calendar are executed and consistent with corporate visual merchandising. The TAVMM leads the process for the delivery of fashion leadership, merchandise strategies, fashion trends, prototypes and creative alignment to Omni-marketing campaigns across the trade area and in their primary store. The TAVMM owns the coaching, training and development of the visual merchandising team in their primary location and the trade area in partnership with peer Visual Merchandise Managers (VMMs).

 

Essential Functions

Fueled by the Power of Relationships

• Develop/deploy talent/ resources in the visual/merchandising functions in store/trade area
• Lead a Visual/Merchandising Team to deliver a customer centric fashion leadership vision 
• Recruit, develop and retain an expert team of Visual/Merchandising Professionals
• Implement/deliver an outstanding environment of presentation and merchandising
• Complete/deliver all performance management functions including Responsibility Based Performance (RBP) process when appropriate
• Empower visual and merchandising team to ensure aligned execution of all merchandise strategies, standards presentations and marketing campaigns 
• Cultivate a strong business partnership with store leadership team and trade area partners 
• Cultivate bench talent for visual and merchandising 
• Be a visible and responsive leader throughout the store

Driven by our Desire to Win

• Own the business through fashion leadership
• Understand comp business trend Plan/LY by using Branch comp and focus business reports 
• Utilizes promotional calendar to set priorities and meet deadlines for store events
• Maximize sales opportunity by leveraging our core values while executing central merchandise strategies to deliver the plan 
• Partner with the in store and trade area leadership to ensure compliance to Logistics, workload planning, markdown execution, workload completion reports, Return to Vendor (RTV) and CDT completion 
• Manage elements of profitability: shortage, productivity and adherence to audit standards as applicable to visual and merchandising operations

Committed to a culture of Collaboration and continuous learning

• Hold the team accountable for delivering an approachable, energetic, style conscious and fun shopping experience through visual/merchandise presentation
• Liaison between central and stores to align to marketing campaigns, create an exciting in store experience thru innovative and animated techniques of visual presentation, life style merchandising concepts and store business driving events 
• Ensure 100% compliance with 10 AM standard, merchandising or back-stocking all goods to standard before the store opens every day
• Oversee store and merchandise implementation, floor moves and planning through teamwork, education and cooperation
• Cultivate a store team that understands their contribution to cu