Project Manager – Retail Display / Visual Merchandising
Duration: 12 months
Pay: £Market rate
Location: Remote (UK)
The client is looking for a Project Manager to support the planning, design, production sell-in, coordination and implementation of Retail Display programmes across the UK and Europe. The role acts a lynch-pin joining up internal cross functional partners with support agencies and retailers.
With a focus on UK and broader European support initially, the potential for growth is huge. The organisation is introducing new technology and creating new categories.
Responsibilities
- Assist with delivery of design, campaign, physical and technical elements of retail experience and long-term furniture programmes
- Support campaign-oriented temporary pop-up design production activities that will evolve and scale over the next few years
- Maintain project documents to ensure strong project discipline driving on-time delivery
- Act as a liaison between global fixture vendor partners, graphic companies, Channel Marketing managers, Creative and Marketing cross functional partners on any asset related issues that arise
- Utilize internal tools to manage payment activity. Prepare and manage spend tracking documents
- Responsible for generating and tracking PO's through internal tools
- Work on internal process development to drive efficiencies across a broad scope of programme related activity
- Organize vendor partner conference calls weekly to track and update progress ensuring all deadline dates are on track.
- Be willing to step in, learn and pick-up tasks for the broader team
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of relevant retail physical project management experience within large organizations in a related field
- Must have strong experience working with retail partners.
- Experience of creating and maintaining project trackers across multiple programs and stakeholders
- Clear understanding and experience of working on retail fixture production and implementation.
- Understand how to utilize and create Excel, PPT and Word docs (proficiency with Google docs/sheets a plus)
- Excellent communicator, superb verbal and written communication
- Extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail, able to detect inconsistencies and errors
- Experience managing budgets
- Highly effective at managing conflict. Is able to address issues between stakeholders swiftly in order to maintain a positive team spirit
- Strong interpersonal skills, approachable, flexible and positive.
- Experience with navigating various organizational environments where culture and structure varies