Visual Manager - Hong Kong

WHY JOIN ALO?

Mindful movement. It’s at the core of why we do what we do at ALO—it’s our calling. Because mindful movement in the studio leads to better living. It changes who yogis are off the mat, making their lives and their communities better. That’s the real meaning of studio-to-street: taking the consciousness from practice on the mat and putting it into practice in life.

OVERVIEW

The Visual Manager is a member of the store leadership team who deals with ALO’s visual and product strategy in the store. This individual is passionate about planning, product knowledge, analyzing reporting and visual execution – all with a lens on driving efficient and effective visual merchandising. This role’s north star is pointed at ensuring that the store is customer-ready at all times. Duties require constant movement in and around the store, including the sales floor and back of house. When not actively assisting guests, this position takes initiative to perform other tasks, as needed, to keep store clean, safe, inviting and operating efficiently.

Visual Leader

• Oversee and support execution of key operational and visual processes

• Champion strong visual standards for the salesfloor by leveraging business performance data

• Lead strategic product presentation and merchandising by ensuring product recovery, restock, destock, and making visual merchandising change in accordance with directive and partnership of General/Store Manager

• Effectively plans Visual floor changes through payroll management and adapting visual support to the needs of the business.

• Own visual direction from planning through executing to meeting company expectations, budgets, timeline

• Utilizes reporting tools in partnership with management to identify business opportunities with product placement, outfitting, and stock levels. Makes changes as necessary

Business Leader

• Represent the business in meetings and on conference calls, in partnership with General/Store Manager

• Review, Monitor and partner with General Manager to manage the budget, reporting and other business data; including metrics (e.g. Expenses, Sell-Thru) and inform planning processes (e.g., quarterly business review and sales planning)

• Future planning workflow business needs to protect optimal performance

People Leader

• Ensure that the Visual team exudes ALO's mission and guiding principles to effectively communicate to our guests who we are, what we do and why we do what we do

• Leads a team through accountability, continuous coaching, development of talent, and elevating effective communication throughout the Operations and Visual team

• Establish internal & external pipeline through succession planning and recruitment strategy

Flow Experience Leader

• Oversees the execution of deliverables on sales floor, achieving KPI’s, while protecting operational efficiency and visual sets

• Collaborates and implements General/Store Manager’s vision and work cross-functionally with business partners, as directed, to support organizational goals and to achieve visual and sales floor KPI’s

• Demonstrate an ability to navigate the organization with a balance of business need and brand culture

Visual Manager Qualifications

• 3-5 years of retail or related industry leadership experience

• Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)

• Extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written

• Agile with the ability to handle multiple tasks in a changing environment

• Independent work ethic, time management skills, and personal accountability

• Aligns with and embodies ALO’s Guiding Principles

• Requires constant movement in and around all areas of store

• Ability to lift, push, carry or otherwise move up to 50 pounds

• Ability to lift, bend, kneel, climb, crawl and/or twist, and safely climb up/down a ladder

• Ability to stand and move for an entire shift

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