VP Visual Merchandising

About the Role

The Vice President of Visual Merchandising is responsible for partnering with the Merchant Organization, Store Development, Product Development, and Creative Services to create the most compelling store presentations in order to maximize sales, brand synergy and to protect the three year plan initiatives.

The Vice President of Visual Merchandising is accountable for Visual Merchandising and Brand Packaging departments and Capital fixture budgets.

This position oversees merchandising display strategies, packaging, retail collateral and window concepts.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Merchandising Strategy : The VP of Visual Merchandising is to oversee and ensure that all product categories are given maximum opportunity to sell and maintain high margins through proper floor placement, signage, packaging, window support, and fixture support.
• Brand Synergy : The VP of Visual Merchandising is responsible for ensuring one singular brand is conveyed through product message, window presentation, in-store collateral, and all components produced from the Visual department, and sets the highest singular brand point of view.

The position also partners with the creative teams in Internet & Catalog to ensure brand synergy.

Team Development : The VP of Visual Merchandising is responsible for maintaining, building and developing a staff that yields teamwork, high productivity, and cost-effective results across the Packaging, Visual, and Graphics teams.

Additionally, ensuring the team is recognized for their successes and contributions to the organization, while nurturing job growth, bench strengths and future leaders within the organization.

• Financial Organization : The VP of Visual Merchandising is financially accountable for the following areas :
• Overseeing and ensuring all funds for the Visual Merchandising and Brand Packaging departments, andCapital expenses, and Payroll are maximized.
• Yield the best product for the best price. Ensuring vendors we partner with have been selected through bidding processes and meet all budget expectations.
• An additional layer of financial accountability relates directly back to ensuring our floorset directions achieve company expectations of sales plan margin percent and turn.
• Partnership in three-year plan strategy ensuring product and marketing direction correlates directly through the three-year plan : Registry growth across the retail division, encouraging new merchandising opportunities, and creating and implementing smaller format stores, as well as building store and field.

Why you will love working at Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

• We're a successful, fast-growing company with an entrepreneurial vibe
• A technologically and data-driven business
• Competitive salaries and comprehensive health benefits
• We're at the forefront of tech and retail, redefining technology for the next generation
• We're passionate about our internal and external clients and live / breathe the client experience
• We get to be creative daily
• A smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right and is open to new ideas
• We believe in autonomy and reward taking initiative
• We have fun!

We're excited about you because...

• 5 years minimum Field Experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Design / Management
• Exceptional Commitment and Leadership Skills
• Excellent Planning and Organizational Skill

Technical Competencies required :

• HM : List any technical requirements, if applicable. For example :
• Deep understanding of numerous networking protocols such as OSPF, BGP, VRRP, DNS, DHCP, proxy functions (forward and reverse), security protocols (IPSec, SSL, etc.

real-time protocols for voice (Skinny, SIP, H.323, MGCP), in addition to WAN communications protocols including MPLS, DWDM, OC carrier, BRI / PRI

• Familiarization with cloud / storage services
• Basic scripting skills in Python, Perl, iRules, TCL, Chef / Puppet or Go a plus

Physical Requirements :

• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time
• Ability to type on a keyboard and operate a PC
• Ability to converse over a telephone
• Ability to work in office and perform in corporate environment

Benefits :

Once you are here, you can look forward to a wide variety of benefits designed to help you grow, personally and professionally, to keep you healthy, to prepare you for the unexpected, to care for your family and to build a secure future.

Depending on your position and your location, here's a look at what you might be eligible for :

• A generous discount on all Williams Sonoma Inc. brands through multiple shopping channels
• A 401(k) plan and other investment opportunities
• Paid vacations, holidays and other time-off programs
• Health benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance; health and dependent care tax-free spending accounts; medical, family and bereavement leave;

same-sex domestic partner benefits; short- and long-term disability programs; life and travel insurance; an employee assistance program

• Tax-free commuter benefits
• A wellness program that supports your physical, financial and emotional health
• In-person and online learning opportunities through WSI University
• Cross-brand and cross-function career opportunities
• Location specific sample sales
• A business casual work environment
• San Francisco based bike share program
• Time off to volunteer
• Matching donations to qualifying nonprofit organizations
• Company-sponsored community involvement
• Various discounts on local businesses

WSI will not now or in the future commence an immigration case or "sponsor" an individual for this position (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, or other applicable state or local laws and ordinances.

The expected starting pay range for this position is $200,000-$300,000. Applicable pay ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

In addition to competitive pay, compensation may include a variety of other components like benefits, paid time off, merit, and bonus opportunities.