Visual Merchandising Project Leader Travel Retail

The L'OCCITANE Group is a global, natural and organic ingredient-based cosmetics and well-being products maker, producer and retailer. The Group is built on strong values of entrepreneurship, team work, respect and authenticity. It is committed to developing products that are environmentally friendly and sustainable.

The Group has eight brands: L'OCCITANE en Provence, Melvita, Erborian, L'OCCITANE au Brésil, LimeLife, Elemis, Sol de Janeiro and Grown Alchemist.
With a presence in 90 countries, our products are distributing in more than 3,000 stores in the world.

L’OCCITANE Group’s mission is to “empower entrepreneurs and communities to cultivate natural beauty and well-being and regenerate nature”. L’OCCITANE is also committed to sustainability for business, people & the planet, as well as respect of human rights, ethics principles and labour protection. All employees at L’OCCITANE must therefore implement the company’s mission and integrate the social, environmental, economic and legal effects of their actions in their day-to-day job. In practice, this means that any employee at L’OCCITANE shall contribute to growing sales, regenerating nature, caring for our consumers & partners and supporting our employees.

**CONTEXT & MISSION**:
In the context of the new multi-brand approach, we are looking for a highly motivated **Visual Merchandising Project Leader Travel Retail Europe & Americas** to join our Travel Retail Department. Key support within the Brand teams, you will be piloting Visual Merchandising priorities, workflows and projects to ensure a consistent and higly qualitative execution of the new brands instore. In this role, you will work in close collaboration with the rest of the Travel Retail Team (Marketing, Sales & Operations) as well as Global Brand teams and external partners.

This new position is based in **Plan-les-Ouates** (near Geneva) and reports to the Head of Global Travel Retail Marketing.

**MAIN RESPONSABILITIES**:
**1) Store Animation & Events**
- Drive the execution and merchandising of HPP/SPP with the TR Brand Teams or with external agencies (from design to technical input, production, installation, report and record),
- Ensure that VM hardware and collateral are available and delivered on time,
- Adapt designs given by Brand Teams to better meet our regions assortment and furniture,
- Propose any idea contributing to enhance the brand on the point of sales.

**2) Merchandising Excellence**
- Drive briefs for TR semi-personalized spaces and build associated guidelines, giving technical recommendations,
- Organize & develop all in store soft VM materials to enhance POS retail excellence consistently,
- Manage the TR Visual Charters & POSM catalogs,
- Production of visual printing artworks for the VM charters & brand events,
- Prepare in and out planograms of main configurations in line with cat Man strategy,
- Work with Brand Team to prepare planograms by furniture and determine assortments based on configurations and PAX for all new installations,
- Update general VM planogram books guidelines to share with field teams,
- Create impactful and attractive on counter maximization guidelines to be approved by Brand Teams & TR Brand managers to better highlight novelties at POS.

**3) Business Support**
- Support team in looking for innovative and additional opportunities on the different brands with visual presentations & renders,
- Support preparations for internal stakeholder events: ensure Brand experiences are adapted to TR environment and well showcased,
- Foster cooperation with Global Brand Teams to accelerate the brand building exercise in the region and maximize omni-channel synergies.

**HOW YOU CAN FIT**:

- At least 2+ years of experience in Visual Merchandising, a first experience in Travel Retail is a strong plus;
- Excellent knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator or other equivalent design software;
- Fluent in English, French is a strong plus;
- Self-organized, proactive, hands-on and multitask oriented with a high level of autonomy and entrepreneurial spirit;
- Excellent attention to details with strong organizational skills;
- Appetite for change and challenges and at ease in an international fast-paced environment with remote & multicultural teams.

**STARTING DATE: ASAP**

**PERMANENT CONTRACT**

L’OCCITANE is an equal opportunities employer. This means that, when making decisions about our employees’ careers with us, our main considerations are their ability to do their jobs and develop in their roles. One way we cultivate change is by creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace and organizational culture. As part of this, we are committed to building an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment where everyone feels respected and valued. We recruit positive-minded people who share our core values - entrepreneurship, team spirit, leading by example and authenticity - and our commitment to sustainability.