Visual Strategy Lead
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Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading retailers.
Right on pace with Target's distinctive retail brand, Target Store Operations is continuing to transform the way it operates. Here, your work directly supports the store mission to be the guest favorite through successfully developing and communicating the processes for operations, style and experience, new structures, new operating models and new technology, and utilizing workforce management activities for our 1,800 locations nationwide. Store Operations manages and enhances the informational resources for researching and resolving operational issues, while guiding and communicating with the field team and leaders who use them. Are you a customer service enthusiast who can actively listen to many points of view and then visualize how they'll perform when operationalized in a store? Are you happy to partner with leaders as well as field team members who are often the experts on how well a process is working? Can you creatively envision more efficient processes and how they'll deliver a better experience for guests and team members? Do you possess the innovative mindset to question the status quo, and the confidence to work under varying degrees of ambiguity and well-informed experimentation? Then you'll have success on one of our dynamic teams.
A role with Experiential Operations means a big opportunity to continuously elevate guests' in-store experience to new levels of awesome. Whether it's Visual, Technology or Events, this team focuses on the processes that ensure a guest experience far above anything the competition can offer by nurturing Target brand love and loyalty at the store level.
As a Visual Strategy Lead, you will be on our Experiential Operations team and will be critical to the implementation of our field Visual Merchandising Strategy across all stores. The Visual Merchandising team establishes their expertise within Store Operations by partnering with cross functioning teams within merchandising, marketing and our HQ Visual Merchandising Office to develop tools, resources, and training of all visual work occurring in stores within A&A, Home, Company Space, Baby and Signing.
This role would lead strategic partnerships, support the development of a long-term plan that positions visual merchandising for future growth. You will use data from sales, brand performance, domo, other metrics and research to inform teams' strategies and work. You will benchmark external performance, identify emerging trends, best methods, tools, technologies that can influence innovation. Acting as a Visual advocate for stores, you will support and lead store visits to assess, solicit feedback, and identify ways to reduce store expense and rework, simplify processes and answer questions. You will also use strong project management skills to meet deadlines and hold clients accountable. Last, you will support the development of documentation and guides used to assess, hire, and performance manage the visual merchandising skill in the field and across stores.
Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
Qualifications:
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading retailers.
Right on pace with Target's distinctive retail brand, Target Store Operations is continuing to transform the way it operates. Here, your work directly supports the store mission to be the guest favorite through successfully developing and communicating the processes for operations, style and experience, new structures, new operating models and new technology, and utilizing workforce management activities for our 1,800 locations nationwide. Store Operations manages and enhances the informational resources for researching and resolving operational issues, while guiding and communicating with the field team and leaders who use them. Are you a customer service enthusiast who can actively listen to many points of view and then visualize how they'll perform when operationalized in a store? Are you happy to partner with leaders as well as field team members who are often the experts on how well a process is working? Can you creatively envision more efficient processes and how they'll deliver a better experience for guests and team members? Do you possess the innovative mindset to question the status quo, and the confidence to work under varying degrees of ambiguity and well-informed experimentation? Then you'll have success on one of our dynamic teams.
A role with Experiential Operations means a big opportunity to continuously elevate guests' in-store experience to new levels of awesome. Whether it's Visual, Technology or Events, this team focuses on the processes that ensure a guest experience far above anything the competition can offer by nurturing Target brand love and loyalty at the store level.
As a Visual Strategy Lead, you will be on our Experiential Operations team and will be critical to the implementation of our field Visual Merchandising Strategy across all stores. The Visual Merchandising team establishes their expertise within Store Operations by partnering with cross functioning teams within merchandising, marketing and our HQ Visual Merchandising Office to develop tools, resources, and training of all visual work occurring in stores within A&A, Home, Company Space, Baby and Signing.
This role would lead strategic partnerships, support the development of a long-term plan that positions visual merchandising for future growth. You will use data from sales, brand performance, domo, other metrics and research to inform teams' strategies and work. You will benchmark external performance, identify emerging trends, best methods, tools, technologies that can influence innovation. Acting as a Visual advocate for stores, you will support and lead store visits to assess, solicit feedback, and identify ways to reduce store expense and rework, simplify processes and answer questions. You will also use strong project management skills to meet deadlines and hold clients accountable. Last, you will support the development of documentation and guides used to assess, hire, and performance manage the visual merchandising skill in the field and across stores.
Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
- Bachelor's Degree or other technical degree in visual merchandising, fashion merchandising, exhibition design, visual communications or similar
- 3-5 years of related work experience as a visual merchandiser and/or manager in specialty retail and/or Target store; knowledge of design, fashion trends, and products
- Proven experience in retail merchandising strategies, customer service principles, and the ability to execute visual merchandising efforts that support an active selling environment
- Ability to collaborate and influence partners to drive superior execution of visual merchandising priorities. Able to influence decisions that affect visual merchandising standards and execution.
- Experience and providing performance feedback on visual merchandising initiatives, identifying opportunities for improving results, and providing solutions to store-specific visual and merchandising challenges
- Demonstrated experience in cross-functional planning and execution
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