Head of Visual Merchandising Europe

Triumph is one of the world’s largest intimate apparel companies. It enjoys a presence in over 120 countries with the core brands Triumph® and sloggi®. Globally, the company serves 40,000 wholesale customers and sells its products in 4,050 controlled points of sale as well as via several own online shops. The Triumph Group is a member of the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI).

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Our Marketing department at Global Headquarters in Bad Zurzach (Switzerland) looking for a

Head of Visual Merchandising Europe (f/m/d) (100%)

The purpose of the Head of Visual Merchandising Europe is to lead, develop and deliver a commercially viable visual merchandising strategy, direction and guidelines to the local markets, retail stores and wholesale accounts to drive sell out and Brand equity.

Your Responsibilities:

• Upgrading the market Visual Merchandising execution in both wholesale and retail in order to deliver on the Marketing and Brand strategies
• Improving Triumph brand perception and consumer shopping experience across all Visual Merchandising key touch points in stores
• Providing executable seasonal Visual Merchandising guidelines, directives and showroom guidelines in all channels
• Developing a Visual Merchandising reporting process that shows up to date executions and KPI data for retail and wholesale
• Partnering with the wholesale sales team to create visual strategies for key accounts based upon actual assortment plans
• Partnering with the product team to ensure collections are developed that support the in store Visual Merchandising strategy
• Driving the local and global training process to ensure best in class Visual Merchandising practices
• Partnering with the store design team on fixture development, as well as with the Head of Store Design, Retail Marketing and Visual Merchandising to deliver against the set KPIs
• Developing a world class Visual Merchandising team and structure, set highly professionally enthusiastic team benchmarks to ensure Global Brand ID values, standards and targets within the markets are set
• Establishing a collaborative leadership style which applies the corporate values of trust, integrity and honesty to influence target result driven ways of working within the Visual Merchandising Team

Your Ideal Profile:

• You have minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role with focus on Visual Merchandising experience in a regional organization
• You have a good understanding of visual merchandising techniques, creative process both in retail and wholesale environments
• You are Fluent in English, spoken and written, knowledge of the German language is a plus
• You possess good business acumen with financial skills and have previous experience budgeting process
• You possess strong influencing and relationship-building skills and ability to establish credibility as a trusted advisor to the business
• You are competent in the use of digital tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign
• You are experienced and enjoy managing a team and setting KPI’s

Our Benefits:

• You will have an opportunity to work for a market leader
• You will join an international and multicultural working environment
• You will have the opportunity of development in the Fashion industry
• You will benefit from the hybrid working policy of the company

You will never walk alone

As a family owned business with more than 130 years of experience, Triumph embraces diversity throughout our global organization. Currently, our offices are present in over 40 countries across Europe and Asia, having many international teams collaborate together every day. Guiding our corporate behaviours are respect and value for our employees, but also Collaboration as one of our key Corporate Competencies, being a core part of our everyday working environment.

Make a Difference, together

The future belongs to our children. At Triumph, we want to be proud of our commitment to building a sustainable society and protecting the environment, and we work every day to ensure our products are manufactured in a sustainable way. This is our vision: We want to be a company that is characterized by responsible leadership and consideration for future generations and that cares for the legacy that we leave behind to our children.

Putting People at the center

At Triumph we are committed to our employees, they represent the foundation for our success. This means that as a company, we are driven to offer great career opportunities in a dynamic fast-paced organization. Our HR function across the globe strives to support our employees in their development, through our Triumph Learning Academy

We continuously strive to recruit new talent, offering them one of the textile industry’s most international working environments, excellent conditions and great development opportunities in a company still owned and managed by the founding families. Our headquarters employs people from more than 30 nationalities and as a European company, we are present in many key markets in Europe, like Germany, Italy, France and growing in Eastern Europe. We are proud to have become one of the leading players in Asia very early on, in countries like Japan, China and Singapore, as well as being an employer that people aspire to work for. As a company serving women, we fundamentally believe in gender equality and diversity. Women make up more than 50% of our company’s workforce. In the last years, we have had a specific and successful drive to increase the number of women in management.

Triumph is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

If you are seeking a great opportunity to develop your career, please send us your CV in English by clicking on Apply.