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Location

Bury, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

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Job description

Responsible to:

Head of VM and Central Operations

Department:

Retail VM

Location:

Role Overview:

Scotland Region

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
• Exellent 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

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button .

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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