Vp Visual Merchandising & Space Planning
CurrentCreative Brand Strategist, Integrated Marketer and highly talented executive-level Visual Design and Operations Leader with extensive background developing and implementing insight driven and innovative branding concepts that translate into clear and compelling growth-oriented customer experiences across hundreds of retail locations. Deep understanding and love of retail. Creative Brand Strategy: Skilled in conceiving of and translating creative ideas into concrete designs and transformative customer experiences. Developing strategic new store prototypes and compelling brand stories and programs across an array of distribution ecosystems resulting in significant increases in revenue and profitability.Project Coordination: Extremely organized executive with vast experience leading all aspects of a wide range of projects. Strong financial, analytical and management abilities which result in cost-efficient budgets and on-time project completion. Contributes and demands a strong sense of urgency.Relationship Management: Extensive history acting as central point of contact for multiple internal/external stakeholders as well as project teams. Collaborative leader accustomed to managing large and smaller focused teams, as well as participating in key support roles. Proven leadership across complex organizations and ability to build high quality teams with strong work ethics.Communication: Excellent communicator able to clearly and quickly convey information verbally, visually and in written forms; bi-lingual (fluent in Spanish). Proven ability to improve and implement effective operational communications, present to executive management and board of directors, align internal and external vendors/partners, and keep project teams focused.Direct ownership of the Visual Merchandising & Space Planning, Fixture Design, Signage and E-commerce content teams to develop and drive consistent in-store experiences and new concept environments.