Visual Merchandising & Commercial Specialist

As Visual Merchandising & Commercial Specialist, You contribute towards regional goals and set priorities that influences an inspiring, commercial, and consistent customer experience connected to the Global visual & commercial strategy. Execute Global presentation guidelines and follow-up visual & commercial excellence accordingly. You support and coach Sales markets with clear visual & commercial focuses, guidelines including planning, best practices, learning & development tools.

Key responsibilities

• Set visual and commercial goals and priorities for your concept linked to company CX vision aligned with Business Units and other regional stakeholders to provide the Sales Markets with clear direction.
• Align new presentation strategies, product presentation & prioritization, commerciality, styling, and instore communication strategies with Global VM, Business Units, Region, and drive implementation of these with the Sales Markets.
• Provide Sales Markets with store activation plans, seasonal focuses, activity packages and commercial priorities for the store channel aligned with Global, Business Units and Region, including Online.
• Collaborate and follow-up execution level in store together with Sales team to maintain visual and commercial consistency and define opportunities.
• Share, inspire and educate Region and Area teams on seasonal visual & commercial updates, customer group changes and fashion/trend information through kick-off meetings and store visits.

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To be successful in the role as Visual Merchandising & Commercial Specialist,  you should have extensive visual and commercial knowledge. Excellent product presentation, styling, and commercial skills with strong fashion interest. Strong visual operational routines and best practices experience from both Area and Stores. You have inspiring and strong leadership skills to drive communication and cross functional collaboration. Solution-oriented with passion for developing both business and people through teamwork.

What you need to succeed:

• Strong knowledge about physical store identity, global visual strategies and regional visual and commercial goals linked to our assortment offer and methods
• Strong prioritization skills and background to manage multiple global strategies and regional initiatives, ability to engage and inspire others and taking responsibility for team development
• Ability to set realistic store planning, seasonal focuses, and commercial priorities for the physical stores to support Sales Markets with implementation
• Know how to manage and act on selling equation, weekly sales reports, and the correlation between commercial KPIs, product presentation and prioritization.
• Strong leadership with effective communication, presentations and active listening to collaborate cross functionally to achieve desirable results.

This is a full-time position, reporting to the Regional Head of Visual Merchandising & Commercial for India.

This position is based at the Support Office in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible, but no later than June 28th 2024. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

Global Benefits

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries

Inclusion & Diversity

H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.

Company Description

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H&M here.