Trainee Area Visual Manager UK&IE

Job Description

​​WHAT YOU’LL DO 

As an Area Visual Manager, you play a key role in delivering an inspiring, commercial, and consistent customer experience by implementing visual standards & commercial excellence. 

Fashion curiosity & Trend Awareness: In collaboration with your Area and Store teams, you leverage your trend awareness to ensure that visual and commercial implementations align with guidelines and the store activation plan, while coaching your VM team on trend awareness and styling techniques to enhance the customer experience.​ 

Customer Sales & profit: You empower VM and store teams to be solution-orientated, creating efficient actions that enhance our customer´s satisfaction to help achieve sales targets, store goals and budget.

Teams & Talent: You lead, coach and inspire area and store teams on seasonal changes, fashion trends and visual guidelines, while proactively identifying, recruiting and developing visual talents to support business needs and maintain a healthy talent pipeline 

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH 

​In this role, you will collaborate with multiple teams to ensure visual excellence and store profitability. Your ability to coach, inspire, and develop visual talent will be key to driving success across the area. 

• Store Visual Merchandisers & Visual Merchandising Managers to ensure visual excellence and consistency. 
• Store Management Teams to align visual strategies with business goals. 
• Sales Market Visual Manager to maintain brand standards and implement global guidelines. 
• Area HR & Talent Teams to support recruitment, training, and development of visual talent. 
• Expansion Project Teams to contribute to new store openings and store redesign projects. 

WHO YOU ARE​ 

We are looking for people with

• Visual Merchandiser experience within a fashion brand or retail styling (1-year minimum). 
• Strong visual merchandising skills and ability to drive business through creativity and commerciality.​
• Strong leadership skills, with experience in coaching and developing teams. 
• A deep understanding of fashion trends, styling techniques, and competitor landscapes. 
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple stores. 

And people who are

• Results-driven, with a strong commercial mindset and focus on sales impact. 
• Innovative and adaptable, with the ability to implement visual strategies effectively. 
• Collaborative and inspiring, fostering teamwork across store locations. 
• Detail-oriented and proactive, ensuring high standards in visual execution. 

WHO WE ARE​ 

H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.​ 

We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. ​ 

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE ​ 

At H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. ​ 

All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here . 

JOIN US​ 

Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.​ 

If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, apply by sending your application through the career site as soon as possible but no later than 1st of June 2025.

We are looking for talent across the UK & IE. 

Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.​ 

*We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.​ 

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