Kiehl's - Manager Merchandising, New York, 5+ years of experience

Posted July 30, 2012
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Kiehl’s Since 1851 was founded as an old-world apothecary in New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood. From our earliest days, our staff has personalized every contact with a Kiehl’s customer. Our fine formulations have always been made with the most unique natural ingredients found the world over.

Today, we serve customers everywhere with skin, fragrance and hair care formulas derived from the most unique natural ingredients. By combining tried-and-true methods with the latest innovations from around the world, we assure the high level of quality and efficacy our customers have come to expect from Kiehl’s for more than 160 years.

JOB SUMMARY

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Kiehl’s family as a Visual Merchandising Manager. This position will be responsible for dictating and maintaining the visual merchandising direction for the Kiehl’s brand. He or she will support the AVP of visual merchandising on all US and Global merchandising initiatives. He or she will build relationships with our key marketing partners to insure proper expression of the brand along with executing all deliverables pertaining to visual merchandising.

Tasks, Duties & Responsibilities:

•Initiates all merchandising specific projects that come through the creative department.
•Creation of monthly in-store animation. Includes concept and execution of table and window merchandising as well as the sourcing of launch props as needed.
•Manage the US merchandising directive process for retail stores and wholesale accounts.
•Work closely with marketing partners to deliver clear, concise direction on how to properly
execute each monthly product launch.
•Maintain US & Global product planogram guidelines, utilizing the IWD planogramming
software.
•Attend all US store openings for proper merchandise and propping execution
•Prop purchasing for all new stores, remodels and launches
•Manage the creation and execution of special events as needed
Job Requirements:

•5+ years of merchandising experience with a luxury brand
•Beauty experience preferred
•Prop styling experience
•Bachelor of Arts Degree
•Ability to work in a fast-paced environment as well as manage multiple projects under tight timeframes
•All Adobe Suite and CS5 design applications
•Ability to travel

PLEASE APPLY BY USING THE FOLLOWING LINK (please note your referral source as vmsd.com)

https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_thebodyshop/loreal_ext/...
BEFORE APPLYING: Please note that this is not a retail store position. It is a corporate office Merchandising conception and design opening. For Kiehl's retail store positions please visit www.kiehls.com and click on Employment at the bottom of the site.