Visual Support Manager - North West

A fantastic position has arisen in the Visual Department. The vacant field role is a Visual Support Manager within UK. The role involves managing day to day visual activity and an integral part of the role is to actively develop a team of competent Town merchandisers and in store personnel across all designated stores. 

Key Duties/Responsibilities:  

 Ensure a high level of visual standard, and to make sure a consistent level of visual competence is evident across all designated stores 

 To have strong communication to all Visual Head Office personnel, Senior Visual Managers, Area / Regional Sales Managers, and Town Merchandisers, to ensure all guidelines are being followed correctly and all weaknesses are identified and supported to be rectified 

To support training and development of the VM and Retail teams with regards to technical and commercial VM 

Use data, reporting tools and business intelligence to provide commercially sound decision making 

  Skills/Experience/Knowledge preferred:  

Visual Merchandising Experience 

Retail Management Skills would be advantageous 

Excellent Leadership Skills 

Strong commercial awareness 

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

Incremental Holiday Allowance

Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online

Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme

Discounted Gym membership

Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work

Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications