Visual Merchandiser

ARKET is a modern-day market with a Nordic soul, offering a mix of fashion, homeware, and a café while having quality, sustainability, and transparency at the core of our business. ARKET's mission is to democratise quality through widely accessible, well-made, durable products, designed to be used and loved for a long time. Learn more about ARKET here.

As the Visual Merchandiser, you'll play a pivotal role in curating an excellent customer journey within the store. In this role, you'll have the exciting opportunity to elevate the collection in a way that's both inspiring and commercially savvy, aimed at maximising both indirect and direct customer service while driving sales performance to new heights.

Key Responsibilities:

• Offering customers a high level of service through styling advice, product knowledge, and store experience.
• Analysing selling information and taking responsibility for the visual direction of the store.
• Installing window displays.
• Creating inspiring outfits and styling mannequins.
• Merchandising stock on the shop floor as per company directives.
• Supporting the sales staff with store operations.
• Setting the visual merchandising standard for the store and training the team.
• Being a brand ambassador and providing the best experience for our customers.

For the role of Visual Merchandiser, we seek individuals who embody the spirit of Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, and Constant Improvement, fostering an environment of collaboration and shared achievements. Your optimistic outlook and flexibility in adapting to evolving circumstances and customer preferences are key attributes we value. You take independent initiative, addressing business and customer demands with both efficiency and effectiveness.

What You Need to Succeed:

Knowledge:

• An understanding of the latest trends, fashion, and silhouettes.
• Experience working with visual merchandising guidelines, including window display and mannequin styling.
• Experience taking informed VM actions based on commercial KPIs and sales data.
• Able to communicate in Norwegian and English.

Motivation:

• You have a strong interest in fashion, VM strategy, and trends.
• You should be motivated by elevating customer experience in-store through visual outputs and direct customer service.
• You are open to learning new things and developing professionally and personally.

Behavior:

• You listen to and show interest in all colleagues' ideas and opinions.
• You support others to grow by giving constructive feedback and sharing product knowledge.
• You express your own opinions and are willing to accept and contribute to agreed outcomes.
• You are self-aware, understand that actions have consequences, and are respectful and non-judgemental in your interactions.
• You prioritise efficiently and adapt to sudden changes.
• You get results through trial and error.
• You come up with new ideas.
• You communicate clearly and concisely.
• You see opportunities to improve everyday processes.

Past Achievements:

• You have a proven track record of delivering high standards of VM that is both commercial and inspirational.
• You have experience managing store VM activations including window and mannequin changes, promotional set-ups, and season-start layouts.
• You have experienced success in collaborating with other managers/colleagues to achieve store goals.

This is a permanent full-time position in our new store in Bergen. Apply by uploading your CV in English as soon as possible. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through our career page.

We offer all our employees at H&M Group 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, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity:

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.