Area Visual Manager | Northeast

What’s the role about?

As an Area Visual Manager for the Northeast, you will be responsible for managing the Customer Environment and delivering a consistent look and feel across all stores and spaces. You will contribute towards driving profitable sales in partnership with the Area Manager, store management and in-store visual support to ensure the brand image and excellent standards are represented in stores.

You will ideally be based in New York or New Jersey, overseeing the Northeast region and reporting into the North American Visual Manager.

Who you are

• Demonstrated success leading visual merchandising initiatives across multiple retail locations, with extensive multi-site experience.
• Based within the New York or New Jersey metropolitan area, with the ability to support regional retail operations.
• Genuine passion for premium, luxury, and design-led products, coupled with a strong understanding of elevated brand presentation.
• Highly customer-centric mindset, with the ability to interpret and execute merchandising strategies through the lens of the customer experience.
• Agile and adaptable, able to navigate evolving business needs and shifting priorities with confidence.
• Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced retail environment while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and execution standards.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across stores, field teams, and corporate stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Self-motivated and proactive, capable of working independently while also collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.

What you'll be doing

• Supporting the range planning process by preparing buy packs, historical analysis, lessons learnt, and size profiling to inform decision-making.
• Maintaining merchandising systems in line with the critical path, ensuring accuracy across product data and purchase orders.
• Liaising with suppliers to track deliveries and ensure timelines are met in line with critical path requirements.
• Assisting with weekly trade preparation, analyzing performance and identifying opportunities to drive sales and improve stock efficiency.
• Managing category WSSI’s, ensuring stock, markdown and future commitments are accurately reflected and aligned to targets.
• Taking ownership of stock management activities including markdown set up, intake reviews and forecasting to optimize stock levels.
• Producing regular sales, intake and stock forecasts, as well as managing reporting tools such as IAQ, attribute analysis and system alignment.
• Supporting people development by coaching and guiding Trainee Merchandisers, while building strong cross-functional relationships across Buying, Merchandising and wider teams

What we offer

• Competitive pay with commission.
• Business wear reimbursement.
• Up to 80% staff discount.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Premium healthcare coverage.
• Plus further workplace benefits.

Compensation: $66,500 - $75,000

If you want to start your story at Reiss as our Area Visual Manager, don’t miss out - apply now!

At Reiss, it’s not just what we do - it’s how we do it that sets us apart. Creativity drives us forward, but it’s our shared behaviours that underpin our success. We look for individuals who embody these behaviours and bring them to life everyday:

Ambition | Accountability | Courage | Commitment | Focus | Resilience

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We recognize the importance and power of diversity within our business and, as such, we ensure that our people processes are fair, transparent and promote equality of opportunity for all candidates.

It is our pledge that candidates will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, race, color, ethnic background, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, religious or similar belief. Every individual will be treated with respect.

We know that some people won ’t apply for a role unless they feel they meet all of the requirements listed. We want you to know that finding people who will add to our inspirational culture and have a learning mindset is incredibly important to us. Even if you feel you don ’t tick all the boxes, we ’d still like to hear from you.