Adidas DISTRICT VISUAL MANAGER 

United States, California, Carlsbad 

739387092

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

This role is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction to a designated cluster of adidas stores, ensuring adherence to and surpassing of Global and North American Visual Merchandising standards. The primary focus involves, training, mentoring, and cultivating visual merchandising teams withing retail stores to ensure the seamless execution of all visual merchandising and retail marketing initiatives including monthly floor sets, campaign rollouts, in-store communications, and support for in-store activations. Support and drive the visual and strategy for the visual merchandising organization facing the fleet, ensuring flawless execution of visual merchandising initiative in alignment with planning and implementation guidelines. Collaboration with Retail Directors and District Managers overseeing the retail fleet is essential to integrate visual merchandising as a key driver of overall store fleet success.

Key Responsibilities

• Positively communicates and actively demonstrates the Brand Values and NAM Retail Mission.
• Live a consumer-first mindset, to drive visual excellence across the NAM market.
• Support and drive the vision and strategy for the fleet facing Visual Excellence retail organization.
• Work closely with Visual Merchandising teams to execute brand standards in store.
• Manage execution of training, communication & best practice processes into the marketplace to ensure Global consistency and excellence at the point of sale.
• Partner with Visual Merchandising Training Managers to communicate onboarding needs and gather the tools and information needed to deliver seasonal, new initiative rollouts, and product training to our store teams.
• Utilize the Third Channel reporting tool to submit recap reports, track requests, and review store reports to ensure executional excellence at retail.
• Communicate clear expectations and guidelines to teams to successfully achieve targets.
• Promote Visual Merchandising as a profit center contributor by maximizing the impact of space management, productivity of product flow, escalating allocation issues, and seasonal movement of product.
• Positively communicates the North America retail mission, in synch with retail fleet leadership, while actively demonstrating the company values.

Key Relationships

• Regional Directors
• District Managers
• Store Managers | VM Leaders
• VM Training Managers | VM Content Managers
• VM RBO Teams

Requisite Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven passion for visual merchandising
• Knowledge of retail landscape, training methods, visual merchandising, retail marketing and presentation
• Strong project management and planning skills. Highly organized with demonstrated follow through capabilities.
• Knowledge and understanding of profit and loss statement and store KPIs to make commercial decisions based on sound financial judgment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to lead discussions in diverse groups of varying size.
• Ability to think conceptually, in strategic terms and diagnose and translate sales/category reporting to an in-store merchandising strategy.
• Knowledge of customer service principles and processes
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrates an inspirational attitude that contributes to a positive team environment with the ability to inspire and motivate a team to achieve established objectives.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with team members.
• Excellent MS Office skills
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• 4-year college or university degree in business, retail management, or related field
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working in a sports/fashion customer & commercial focused retail environment. Store management experience preferred. Equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in managing high level retail visual merchandising and delivering consumer in-store experience.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience managing people.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including evening, overnight and weekend shifts as well as ability to travel up to 60% of the time.

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best. We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.
• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life andAD&Dinsurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employeesare able toenroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including12 weeksof paid parental leave.
• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance. Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.
• We officially returned to office in a hybrid work environment, working 3 days in office and 2 days remote. This position is based out of Miami, Florida.
• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.