Field Merchandising Manager ?
Location: UK, London
Length: 12 months
Location: Remote
Rate: From £35.10 p/h (Inside IR35) Negotiable
Hours: 40 hours per week
Responsibilities
- Prioritize large volumes of projects across thousands of retail doors, most with tight deadlines and extreme complexity, with guidance from the Field Merchandising Lead.
- Partner closely with internal and external key partners on a regular basis to align and drive impact and results with the utmost efficiency and accuracy while moving fast.
- Act as liaison between regional 3rd party labour agencies, fixture display companies, channel marketing managers, demo tech team, field sales, visual merchandising and Essilor Luxottica on any issues that come up in our retail partners.
- Manage 3rd party labour agencies to execute projects in brick-and-mortar retailers globally to ensure deliverables are met.
- Build highly detailed execution plans for a variety of initiatives across multiple product lines.
- Review instructions and execution for multiple projects simultaneously with a keen eye for detail.
- Understand display fixture production process and installation implementation processes to properly prepare workback schedules and deliverables to share cross functionally both internally and externally.
- Critical to understand various retailer 3rd party labour operations to drive best in class execution.
- Track field execution, including progress and results, and prepare reports for internal stakeholders.
- Analyse demo data, flag potential roadblocks and work with external partners to ensure in store demo compliance. ·
- Work closely with the Field Merchandising Lead to ensure all 3rd party labour projects are to budget.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience on either the brand side of retail in-store merchandising or the vendor side of retail in-store merchandising.
- 5+ years of project management experience
- 3+ years of third-party labour management experience
- Proven ability to understand the unique operating conditions within each retailer and how that impacts the planning and executing of the initiatives for all product lines.
- Must have experience sharing program / project updates across broad teams and organizationstransparency is key within the Meta culture and the ability to communicate, clear + concise cross functionally.
- Extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail with ability to track and articulate the intricacies of complex fixture installations.
- Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors.
- Must have experience partnering with external stakeholders.
- Excellent at finding the root cause of issues or gathering the necessary cross-functional members to find that cause or solution to an issue.
- Strong interpersonal skills, approachable and flexible.
- Experience with navigating various organizational environments where culture and structure vary.
- Excellent communicator, superb verbal, and written communication.
- Experience with Google G suite and Microsoft suite of software applications