What are the responsibilities and job description for the Anthropologie Visual Merchandising Manager position at Anthropologie?
Role Summary
This role plays an important part in supporting brand initiatives, goals, cross channel product storytelling, styling alignment and visual merchandising consistency. This is a visual role to manage all aspects of company direction in the Home categories. The Home VMM will work closely with high level field talent and the Home Office teams on store needs.
Role Responsibilities
Responsibilities: Ownership of Mock Store Prototypes
-Participate in all visual prototypes for the field, including partnerships with CED for in store protos.
-Participate in all seasonal style-outs and show backs to the executive team
-Manage flow of samples with merchants
-Create and manage loop communication and visual direction to stores
-Partner and communicate with merchants
-Understand store marketing needs and place within home shops
-Develop creative ideas to push assortment forward through merchandising
-Develop fixture training
-Partner with styling and service team
-Partner to develop field through proto connections and field visits
Role Qualifications
- Anthro brand fan
- 5 years store visual merchandising and leadership experience
- Strong merchant skills and a history of delivering financial results
- Experience with floor planning
- Proven record of developing great talent
- passion for visual merchandising and styling
- related experience working within a vertical retail environment
- strong understanding of current retail landscape, trends and can execute moving the brand forward
- creativity and innovative idea generation
The Perks
URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit https://www.urbn.com/work-with-us/stores
EEO Statement
URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.
