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Director of Visual Merchandising
Summary
Title:Director of Visual Merchandising
ID:2074
Team:Retail Operations
City, State/Province:Nashville, TN
Description

We’re SmileDirectClub, and we believe everyone deserves a smile they’ll love. We also believe that you deserve a job you’ll love. Good thing you found us, and we found you. At SmileDirectClub, we’re all about empowering transformation. We want people to become more confident in how they look, how they feel, and how they think. So we’re spreading smiles and positivity all over the country.

It’s no small task. That’s why we’re looking for energetic, passionate, and confident team members who can help turn frowns, in to life-changing grins. Are you up for it?

The Director of Visual Merchandising will lead in executing the brand vision and is responsible to provide leadership, infrastructure, conceptualization, coordination, design, planning and successful execution of branded visual elements within SmileDirectClub’s retail shops.

This position will be responsible for creating, maintaining and executing visual merchandising guidelines that are consistent with SDC’s brand. They will oversee successful in-store execution of branding and visual merchandising for new shop build-outs, existing shop locations and oversee visual merchandising conception and execution plans for store launch and promotional events. Collaborating with Marketing, Store Operations and our external partners we will create an omni-channel experience that excites consumers.

Responsibilities:

  • End-to-end management of shop design, development and execution of permanent merchandising within existing and new SmileShops
  • Create and maintain all planograms and provide installation guidelines to in-store setup team and visual merchandising managers/coordinators
  • Act as liaison between Retail Operations team and Marketing department to ensure that all new store build-out plans are communicated to team leads
  • Manage store design workflow and that all visual merchandising plans for new stores are prepared for approval
  • Ensure Visual Merchandising Managers understand visual goals and visual merchandising execution for new builds
  • Communication of brand design standards and plans to Visual Merchandising Managers, Trainers, Retail Operations team
  • Partner with Creative team to ensure consistent brand visuals are in place within each retail location
  • Frequent field visits to ensure visual directive/guidelines are executed and maintained
  • Identify and define store fixture/design strategies to enhance the brand experience
  • Work with Real Estate and Shop Build-Out teams to ensure stores are built/remodeled to brand standards
  • Identify and develop store and brand presentation strategies to drive brand/sales objectives
  • Lead, manage and develop the corporate/field visual merchandising teams
  • Establish and conduct effective fixture review process that ensure compliance with brand standards
  • Develop and execute in-store and pop-up shop executions for hot market opportunities

It will really make us smile if you have…

  • Strategic mindset
  • Team leadership
  • Flexibility and able to pivot quickly
  • Ability to work in high-pressure situations
  • Visual merchandising expertise spanning concept to production
  • Strong technical skills with full understanding of how to develop structure and display
  • Graphic design skills spanning concept to mechanical
  • Visual merchandising expertise spanning concept to production
  • Exceptional organizational skills to manage multiple projects in a timely manner, as well as ability to juggle priorities
  • Budget knowledge, monitoring and follow-up with key stakeholders
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Visual Merchandising and or Fine Arts
  • 8+ years Visual Merchandise experience within specialty retail
  • Visionary with a strong business sense who can strike a balance between creative and analytics to achieve results
  • Curious, collaborative and excellent communicator
  • Demonstrated creative leader
  • Project management strength: able to plan, prioritize, organize and delegate work effectively
  • Proven strength in problem analysis and decision-making
  • Knowledgeable in Adobe Creative Suite and 3D software
  • Requires travel of up to 50%

Benefits of joining the club:

  • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • 401K with match
  • PTO
  • Aligner and Whitening Benefit
  • Collaborative work environment and positive culture

SmileDirectClub was founded on a simple belief: everyone deserves a smile they love. The Company is the first digital brand for straightening your smile, created after the realization that recent trends in 3D printing and telehealth could bring about disruptive change to the invisible aligner market by matching licensed professionals, a quality clear-aligner product, and customers together. By leveraging proprietary, cutting-edge technology, SmileDirectClub, LLC-affiliated dentists are providing greater access of care to consumers who couldn’t otherwise afford orthodontic treatment to get a better smile.

Want to learn more about us?

Check out https://smiledirectclub.com

Hear what our customers are saying: https://vimeo.com/233836276

See what our SmileShops are all about: https://vimeo.com/23453399

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