Overview
As Styling and Visual Merchandising Manager, you will lead the creation of industry-leading brand and product creative assets, delivering standout, trend-aligned content that inspires customers, drives engagement, builds brand equity, and supports measurable outcomes across both luxury trade and direct-to-consumer markets. You will manage the Styling and Visual Merchandising team workload, scheduling tasks to ensure assets are produced to the highest quality and delivered on time. Partnering closely with brand and channel leads, you will ensure every output has creative cut-through and elevates the customer experience.
Responsibilities
Creative Brand Storytelling
* Lead and manage the in-house Styling and Visual Merchandising team, delivering standout, cut-through creative assets (moving, static and physical) to support brand and product communications through visual content and physical, immersive moments for Trade through showroom and exhibition design through to content created for website, social channels, email, and paid media, ensuring every piece combines strong aesthetics with a clear digital strategy.
* Act as custodian of Brand expression for each brand, ensuring all assets uphold the highest visual standards and consistent brand identity, including collaboration with external partners.
* Direct the Brand and campaign narratives into compelling digital visuals, guiding the team to remain reactive to industry trends and align with platform requirements (e.g. Instagram, Pinterest).
* Champion the development of elevated customer experiences that reflect luxury brand positioning across all offline consumer touchpoints.
* Oversee the development of visual content and physical, immersive moments for Trade, covering showroom and exhibition design to content creation for website, social channels, email, and paid media, as well as brand campaigns, ensuring outputs combine strong aesthetics with a clear digital strategy.
Project Management
* Oversee and lead the new way of working through reactive briefs, pushing the creation of high-performing, digital-first assets optimised for social channels, websites, print and digital advertising, ensuring quality and brand consistency.
* Manage the Styling and Visual Merchandising workload effectively using workflow tools, balancing global priorities across six brands and delivering on all marketing and creative brief requirements.
* Collaborate closely with key stakeholders including wider creative team, brand managers, licensing, and commercial teams to ensure all creative meets business and brand objectives.
* Stay ahead of luxury digital trends and emerging creative formats, coaching the team in best practices for all aspects of industry-leading design.
* Manage rapid-turnaround content production for timely brand moments or seasonal campaigns, balancing speed with quality.
* Foster a high-performance creative culture through team coaching, development, and training, embedding industry best practice and driving innovation within the team.
Global Launch Alignment
* Actively support the growth of the USA Marketing function by collaborating closely with third-party showrooms and trade teams to create consistent visual merchandising decks and POS packs that support market best sellers and trends.
* Lead elevated showroom design for USA flagship showrooms that resonate with interiors designers to inspire through collection displays as well as merchandised and market-driven product displays.
* Ensure US partners are equipped with creatives that visually showcase the individual Brand DNA and resonate with US markets and regions.
* Localise campaign messaging and assets for optimal engagement with US audiences.
* Partner with digital, ecommerce, and brand experience teams to support omnichannel creative.
* Support licensing partners with toolkits and Brand Styling briefs and collaborative sign-off.
* Manage and mentor Stylists where applicable.
Measures of Success
* Production of standout, cut-through, emotive creative assets.
* All projects and launches delivered on time, on budget, and to brief.
* Tightly managed workload and prioritisation.
* Global showroom alignment through launch display and merchandising.
* A high-performing, motivated team.
Experience & Skills
* High-level project management skills including external vendors, Group Leadership and internal teams.
* High-level creative direction of Styling and Visual Merchandising.
* Expert knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro) with strong capabilities in motion graphics and short-form video editing.
* Proven ability to create reactive, culturally relevant, social-first content tailored for digital platforms, with an understanding of platform-specific requirements (e.g., TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest).
* Proven ability to create standout visual merchandising installations focusing on Brand Moments and consumer experiences.
* Outstanding collaboration and communication skills, able to work effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders including marketing, sales, and creative agencies.
* Organised, detail-oriented, and self-motivated, capable of managing multiple projects, meeting tight deadlines, and maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
* Experience in storytelling and facilitation, bringing brand narratives to life through compelling visual communication.
* Art / Design Degree and/or 7+ years design experience.
Behaviours
* Agile – comfortable iterating rapidly in response to performance data or social trends.
* Consumer-centric – design with user engagement front of mind.
* Digital Focus – stays ahead of platform trends and visual culture shifts.
* Performance-minded – understands the impact of good design on D2C growth and KPIs.
About Us
Sanderson Design Group plc is a luxury interior design house, home to six iconic brands with over 165 years of history: Sanderson, Morris & Co., Harlequin, Zoffany, Clarke & Clarke, and Scion. Our portfolio spans fabric, wallpaper, and paint, with manufacturing capabilities through Anstey and Standfast & Barracks.
Our purpose is to ‘bring the beautiful into people’s homes and lives’. The company owns one of Europe’s largest design archives, with over 75,000 historical documents and artworks. A growing international licensing programme supports our strategic global expansion.
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