Assistant Manager, Visual Merchandising, Prestige
hace 2 días
New York
The Opportunity: As an Assistant Manager, Visual Merchandising, Prestige, you will play a key role in driving Retail Excellence, strategic planning, and best-in-class execution across our prestige fragrance and beauty brands. This dynamic role combines visual merchandising, business analysis, and project management to elevate brand visibility, optimize retail investments, and enhance the consumer experience across multiple retail channels. Working closely with Global and local cross-functional teams, you will support permanent retail initiatives while leveraging business insights, retailer performance, and market trends to identify growth opportunities. The ideal candidate is analytical, business-oriented, highly organized, and passionate about luxury beauty retail, with a strong understanding of the Beauty Specialist business and the ability to translate strategic objectives into impactful in-store experiences. What You’ll Get to Do: Retail Strategy & Visual Merchandising Excellence • Support short- and long-term retail strategies aligned with brand priorities, sales performance, and business growth opportunities, • Develop business presentations, performance recaps, and strategic recommendations for local and Global stakeholders, • Support the development and execution of permanent retail initiatives, ensuring best-in-class brand presentation across all points of sale, • Manage visual merchandising projects, including fixtures, signage, graphics, branded environments, and retail installations, • Partner with Global and local teams to adapt brand concepts, visual merchandising guidelines, and retail standards to meet market and retailer needs, • Collaborate with vendors and agencies to manage production, installation, and execution timelines, • Conduct store visits and retail audits to identify opportunities to improve visibility, merchandising effectiveness, and the consumer experience Beauty Specialist Strategy & Retail Activations • Partner with Sales, Field, and Education teams to support Beauty Specialist initiatives, improve counter functionality, and enhance sales productivity, • Analyze Beauty Specialist door performance and retail execution to identify opportunities for additional visibility, investment, and conversion, • Identify opportunities to strengthen brand storytelling, consumer engagement, and product discovery across retail touchpoints Project Management, Budgeting & Operational Excellence • Manage multiple retail projects simultaneously, ensuring timely execution, budget compliance, and alignment with business priorities, • Maintain project trackers, installation calendars, retail roadmaps, and execution timelines, • Support CAPEX and operational budget management, including purchase orders, vendor estimates, forecasting, and financial reporting, • Analyze project costs and identify opportunities to optimize spending while maintaining brand standards and execution quality, • Develop post-project recaps and performance reporting to capture key learnings and opportunities for improvement Cross-Functional Collaboration & Global Alignment • Partner with Sales, Marketing, Education, Field, Finance, and Global Retail teams to align retail initiatives with business priorities, • Collaborate with Global teams on retail concepts, visibility opportunities, project approvals, and strategic planning, • Proactively communicate project updates, business insights, and recommendations to key stakeholders We’d Love to Meet You If You Have: • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Retail Management, Merchandising, Design, or a related field preferred, • 3+ years of experience in luxury beauty, fragrance, retail merchandising, retail excellence, or retail operations, • Experience with Beauty Specialist teams, field operations, or beauty counter environments, with an understanding of sales productivity and consumer engagement, • Experience managing retail budgets, CAPEX investments, purchase orders, and vendor relationships, • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines independently, • Knowledge of retail design, visual merchandising, fixtures, materials, and fabrication processes, • Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Office; experience with Photoshop, SketchUp, AutoCAD, or other design visualization tools is a plus, • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and a passion for luxury beauty retail Compensation: As required by New York State’s salary transparency law, effective November 2022, the expected base salary for this position ranges from $80,000.00 - $90,000.00. Various factors are considered when extending offers, such as relevant skillset, training, years of experience related to the current job description, education, and our organizational structure. In addition to the base salary, PUIG offers a competitive benefits package that includes health and dental insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, 401K, paid holidays, a generous paid time-off policy, hybrid work environment, and career opportunities within a dynamic team. EEOC: Puig is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commitment: At Puig, we are continually looking for enthusiastic and committed individuals from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences to join our team. We believe that creating an inclusive environment in which you feel welcomed, valued, engaged, and empowered strengthens our business and fosters a culture where we are inspired to work hard, challenge ourselves, and be innovative in our thinking. Additionally, we believe that the diversity of our employees makes us a stronger company and better able to serve our customers around the world. About Puig: Puig creates unique and highly desirable beauty and fashion brands that empower people to reinforce their self-esteem and find their own expression in a family-owned company that aims to leave a better world for the next generation. Our brand portfolio is structured in three divisions: Beauty and Fashion, with the owned brands Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci, Paco Rabanne, Jean Paul Gaultier, Dries Van Noten, Penhaligon’s, Byredo, Dr. Barbara Sturm, and L’Artisan Parfumeur; the licenses of Christian Louboutin and Comme des Garçons perfumes; and Lifestyle fragrances, among them Adolfo Dominguez, Antonio Banderas, Shakira, and Benetton. The Charlotte Tilbury division, which includes the luxury makeup brand and the Derma division, with the Apivita, Uriage and Isdin brands. We sell products in 150 countries and operate 26 subsidiaries. At Puig we honor the values and principles put in place by three generations of family leadership. Today we continue to build on that legacy, through conscious commitments in our ESG agenda (environmental, social, and governance) aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.