Job Description

Description

Job Title

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Visual Store Associate

Location

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UNIQLO Bayshore Shopping Centre (Ottawa)

Status:

Full Time (40 hours per week)

Reporting to

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Reporting to

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Store Manager

Area Manager (store operations and visual merchandising)

Key internal contacts

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Store management team, store support functions and store associates, externally customer

Key external contacts:

Customers

About UNIQLO

UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co. (FR), a global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under multiple brands including: GU, Theory, Helmut Lang, PLST (Plus T), COMPTOIR DES COTONNIERS, PRINCESSE TAM TAM, and UNIQLO. FR is currently among the world's top three largest apparel retail companies and UNIQLO, its pillar, is considered Japan's leading specialty retailer. With an operation spanning over 2300 stores worldwide in more than 25 countries and regions, UNIQLO is driven by its LifeWear concept for ultimate everyday clothes, offering unique products made from high-quality, highly functional materials, at affordable prices. UNIQLO proactively seeks to minimize the environmental impact of our businesses through the development of recycle-oriented products while continuing to offer people all over the world the joy, happiness, and satisfaction of wearing truly great clothes that embody our corporate philosophy: Changing clothes. Changing conventional wisdom. Change the world.

At UNIQLO, we are committed to providing our employees with enriching and challenging opportunities where achievements and personal growth are acknowledged and rewarded. We are dedicated to offering our employees training, performance-based increases, and unlimited growth opportunities. If you are an ambitious, hard-working individual who welcomes new challenges, have a drive for success, and embrace the responsibility of leadership--then you belong at UNIQLO!

Overall Position Overview

The

Full Time

Visual Store Associate

is an individual who will support the execution of Visual Presentations within the store; including but not limited to, Styling, Props, and Displays. These actions are expected to be engaging, generate excitement, inspire, and attract customers, increase Sales while simultaneously communicating UNIQLO LIFEWEAR.

Understands the basics of UNQILO, manage all basic operations and store visuals in accordance with UNIQLO Rules, Policies, and Code of Conduct.

Be responsible for exceeding customer expectations by actively engaging with customers, understanding their needs, and providing product information to help them find the right items. Also contribute to maintaining the store's brand and operational standards, including visual presentation and cleanliness Involving into merchandising planning and sales floor planning Along with next season's Marketing and MD plan, create styling plan, and establish the business based on sales floor that focuses on styling. Provide regular, ongoing visual merchandising instruction aligned with our corporate brand image Set visual merchandising strategy to achieve the store sales business result and store KPI (such as sales generation, customer satisfaction, etc.) Establish best practices related to assortment display and placement, provide ongoing instruction related to implementation of merchandise Actively solicit feedback from Store Management and Store Operations teams providing direction to foster continuous improvement Take part in planning of country wide window/in-store calendar based on company strategy Join daily meetings with store management team and also conduct daily walk-through and provide creative inputs as it pertains to floor presentation, window display and product styling Collaborate with marketing team to define all in-store communication Manage headquarter graphic designer's timelines, directives, production process, outside vendors and aligning all designs based on GHQ Manage all weekly, monthly styling working with layout team and utilizing company's concepts based on monthly layout Manage and create concepts for all window styling based on company's guideline Control department budgetary expenses Train and develop team members Additional duties as assigned by Store Management and Area Manager

Desired Skills and Experiences

Minimum of 2+ years of leadership experience as sales associate or sales advisor with high sense of visual merchandising with fashion forward apparel retailer Interested in fashion, and fond of creating coordinate and editing sales floor. Strong passion to offer new value to the customers through Uniqlo products, and approach Uniqlo's new fashion style to the world. Ability to collaborate cross functionally to achieve brand visions in stores Ability to work a team for within same department and across departments and/or teams. Cross-sectional communication skill with other departments Ability to adapt to a challenging and fast paced environment. Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities Strong ability to communicate ideas, concept story and lead teams from conception to execution including to connect execution with business result. Always make effort into leaning new trend or information, and work with a team. Ability to travel to various UNIQLO locations within Canada. Business trip may require across city or region

Benefits

Employee discount at all Uniqlo Canada retail locations. Group Insurance (Health & Dental). Guarantied hours. We offer competitive compensation for associates starting at $18.00/hour commensurate on relevant previous experience and opportunities for promotion every 3 months.




UNIQLO Canada is an equal opportunity employer. UNIQLO Canada encourages applications from all qualified candidates and accommodates persons with disabilities. Candidates that are selected for interviews should advise us if they require accommodation.