Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager

Reports to: Floor Manager

Division: Retail

Location: U of T Bookstore, St George Campus

Pay Rate: $24.50 up to $26.50 per hour

What You’ll Be Doing:

We are seeking a creative, detail-oriented, and commercially minded Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager to create engaging in-store displays that reflect our brand identity and drive customer engagement and sales. The Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager will be responsible for maintaining compelling product presentations, implementing seasonal campaigns, and ensuring all visual standards are consistently executed across the retail environment. They will also train and supervise other members of the GM team to ensure that visual standards are maintained.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain attractive, product displays and in-store merchandising that align with the store brand.
• Execute visual merchandising guidelines, seasonal campaigns, promotions, and product launches. And train support staff to maintain and execute merchandising standards.
• Develop creative product presentations that encourage customer engagement and support sales objectives.
• Regularly refresh displays based on inventory levels, sales performance, seasonal trends, and marketing priorities.
• Collaborate with store management, marketing and buying teams to ensure visual strategies align with business foals.
• Conduct regular visual audits and identify opportunities to improve store presentation.
• Assist with store openings, renovations, special events, promotional launches, and seasonal changeovers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 3 years of visual merchandising experience in a retail environment.
• Strong understanding of retail presentations, product styling, colour, composition, and spatial design with a proven ability to design in store displays.
• Ability to lift, move and install displays, shelving and merchandise as required.

Key Skills

• Ability to interpret and execute visual guidelines consistently.
• Excellent eye for detail and a strong sense of aesthetics.
• Independently motivated and able to work on self-directed projects.
• Ability to teach other staff members on proper visual merchandising standards.

About University of Toronto Press

The University of Toronto Press (UTP) is one of the largest university presses in North America, publishing landmark scholarship since 1901. Each year UTP releases over 250 new scholarly, course, and general interest books in print, audio and ebook formats, and over 80 journals. In addition, UTP manages the distribution for over 250 publishers and imprints in Canada, the US, and around the world, with warehouses in Toronto, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. UTP also runs the University of Toronto Bookstores across the three main campuses, serving over 100,000 students and 16,500 faculty.

As the leading university press in Canada and one of the largest in North America, we acknowledge our role and responsibility in effecting positive change. With this, we seek to continuously improve the diversity and representation of our publications and the clients we represent, as well as within the makeup of our organization. With strong commitment from leadership, we are collectively bringing forward change across the organization, both within our company culture and in our publishing, distribution, and retail endeavours. UTP operates with mutual trust, respect, and integrity as we strive to identify and remove barriers. We are committed to making UTP a great place to work by addressing and challenging systemic inequities.