Creative & Visual Merchandising Senior Manager, Americas Role

WHAT ON EARTH IS DECIEM?

Known as “The Abnormal Beauty Company”, DECIEM is the parent company of The Ordinary, NIOD, and other beauty brands & is an industry disruptor with a science first approach to innovation. DECIEM was Co-Founded in 2013 by the late Brandon Truaxe, a visionary who set out to change the beauty industry through authenticity and transparency. He developed DECIEM to be a happy family (of people and beauty brands), rooted in kindness, creativity, diversity, and respect, alongside Co-Founder, Nicola Kilner.

We are growing rapidly and we’re looking for someone who shares this vision and wants to grow with us!

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

In partnership with Global Creative Design and Regional Brand teams, the Creative & Visual Merchandising Senior Manager, Americas will be responsible for driving the delivery of all regional Visual Merchandising, Creative and Strategic Design Initiatives for the Americas region, while ensuring brand values, aesthetics and global vision are adhered to.

This is a hybrid role based out of our NYC office.

The NYC salary range for this position is $96,069 USD to $115,000 USD annually depending on experience and qualifications.

WHAT YOU’D BE DOING IN THIS ROLE

• Act as a key partner between North America teams and Global Creative Design Team to stay abreast of Global Design and VM initiatives which could influence North America solutions
• Build a strong partnership and collaboration with the brand marketing team and cross-functional support teams
• Using your solid understanding of planograms and the consumer journey, along with you’re your ability to adapt to business needs, to upkeep a high standard and consistency of brand design guidelines
• With your solid understanding of North Americas regional needs and key retail players (ULTA, Sephora), you will oversee all deployment and implementation of VM and Creative programs including, but not limited to, hard fixtures, prototypes, regional guidelines, as well as planograms for all fixture iterations
• Consistent monitor disruptive retailer designs and current beauty and lifestyle trends
• Work closely with retail partners, display vendors, engineers, and multiple internal brand teams to ensure best in class visual merchandising displays, optimizing navigation and education on all touchpoints
• Resize, adapt and repurpose regional assets from Global toolkit for retailer specific or national campaigns
• Demonstrate your ability to act quickly to create the translation of assets (where applicable) for production to be delivered to key retailers
• Support digital creative programs through adapting global assets to regional brand strategy for deployment in a variety of channels (paid media, OOH, retailer.com, etc)
• Anticipate brand and business needs, face reality with accurate sense of urgency, generate conclusions, and mobilize to adapt to changing needs and demands

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED TO GET THE JOB DONE

• You must have a minimum of 6 years of related design experience in the retail space, ideally with beauty/skincare multi-brand retailers (Ulta, Sephora, etc.)
• Ability to multi-task and execute several projects in a timely and efficient manner; must be able to follow projects from concept to completion, with heavy focus on quality execution and design production.
• Knowledge of technical drawings, project management, materials and manufacturing processes
• Software Skills: Sketch-Up, VRay, Adobe Illustrator, Indesign & Photoshop, Adobe After Effects (or any other video editing software) Figma.
• Ability to lead, inspire, and influence; especially while presenting to groups of individuals at various levels of seniority. Experience with people management
• Proven track record in interpreting brand strategy in a growing environment with full-scope project design and project development experience

WHAT YOU’LL BE GAINING BY JOINING OUR TEAM

There’s a lot of good stuff that comes along with being a DECIEM team member. Here’s a few of our favourite perks and benefits, in no particular order…

• Generous Vacation & Personal Days, plus additional time off for volunteering in your community, voting, peaceful protesting, celebrating your birthday, and more.
• 6 months of paid time off for new parents (inclusive of all genders).
• Work from anywhere 4 weeks per year.
• A hybrid work model (for applicable roles).
• Summer Friday’s - get off at 1pm all summer long! (for applicable roles).
• Unlimited access to an Employee Assistance Program that includes mental health care, mindfulness programs, and more.
• Access to Development Grants & a LinkedIn Learning membership to help you keep growing and learning.
• A generous discount on DECIEM products for you, your family, and your friends.

BUILDING GROWTH TO POWER GOOD

We are a People first company that lives by our core values to…

• Do the right thing
• Create impact
• Respect small things
• ❤️ Care too much
• Be the future

These values continue to guide us in all that we do. Along the way, we’ve been honoured to win some pretty incredible awards, including a CEW Achiever Award, Best Skincare Brand at Sunday Times Style Beauty Awards, and Most Popular Sustainable Brand by The Cosmetify Index Global. We’re still blushing!

SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT

DECIEM’s objective is to build growth and do good things while prioritizing people, animals, and the Earth.

Our Sustainability strategy is focused on fighting climate change, improved waste management, responsible packaging, responsible sourcing and product lifecycle, and water conservation.

In 2020, DECIEM established the Good Fund to support both large and grassroots charities in response to global events.

CREATING A HUMAN WORLD OF BEAUTY

DECIEM is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by creating meaningful, measurable change in the lives of our team members and in the communities where we operate. Achieving equality is critical to DECIEM and our future. You can learn more about our DEI commitment in our open letter, "Belonging is the Destination, Change is the Journey".

DECIEM is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on age, colour, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, provincial and local laws. We are also committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you are contacted to be part of our recruitment process and require accommodation, please let us know.

WANT TO JOIN US?

Thank you for reading the whole thing! If you liked what you heard, kindly send us your resume. We really appreciate your effort in applying for this position. However, only those who have been shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. <3

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