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About the Company - 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. Our inclusive culture promotes diversity of background, thought and opinion. 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, while having a lot of fun along the way.

About the Role - The Visual Merchandise Manager (VMM) inspires and guides the store team to deliver environments filled with creative energy and aspirational yet approachable style. The VMM role models a strong creative sense of fashion leadership balanced with an understanding of metric driven commerce. The VMM drives front of house planning in store to ensure day in/day out merchandise presentation techniques and promotional calendar are executed and consistent with corporate visual merchandising. The VMM leads their team to deliver a customer centric fashion leadership vision through our merchandise strategies, fashion trends, prototypes, and alignment to omni-marketing campaigns. The VMM is responsible for coaching, training and developing the visual and merchandising teams.

Responsibilities -

• Recruit, develop and retain an expert team of Visual/ Merchandising professionals.
• Empower visual and merchandising team to ensure aligned execution of all merchandise strategies, standards presentations, and marketing campaigns.
• Develop a team that understands their contribution to customer service through presentation techniques, store appearance and fashion leadership.
• Cultivate a strong business partnership with store leadership and trade area partners; always being a visible and responsive leader throughout the store.
• Use the Branch Comp, focus business reports and promotional calendar to set priorities and drive the business.
• Partner with in-store leadership to ensure compliance to Logistics, workload planning, markdown execution, work 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.
• Lead visual merchandise standards seminars to store team and trade area when needed.
• Liaise between central and stores to align on marketing campaigns and lifestyle merchandising concepts.

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