Visual Merchandiser (1 Year Contract)

Position

Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Visual Merchandiser will ensure that the Visual Merchandising styles and standards are of high quality and reflect company and local directives. Day by Day, he/she plans, organizes and implements Visual Merchandising activities within Malaysia. He/She may set up acquisition of materials and works with field to guide rollout of visual program.

The Visual Merchandiser will report directly to VM Manager Southeast and Australia, and work closely with our retail, merchandising, logistics and Marketing team of FENDI.

Job responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide and support the stores in VM presentation
• Collaborate and support the realization of general VM training, VM and windows product guidelines, VM display strategy, new openings and in-store/product events
• Collaborate with merchandising team and the retail team to ensure that store changes are in line with our business needs
• Report and provide regular feedback to VM Manager as well as other management after each rotation
• Manage end to end monthly floorset launches and new window displays in all stores (often requiring night works)
• Ensure that the local visual merchandising standards are in line with the global VM guidelines
• Co-ordinate with suppliers and business partners to ensure that a perfect rollout of window installation or any new campaign images
• Co-ordinate product rotation according to window guidelines
• Manage the re-ordering of props and follow closely delivery of props
• Supervise stores and Travel retail stores to ensure that Fendi’s VM standards are maintained
• Support the new collections presentation in stores
• Collaborate to the opening of new stores (if any)
• Coach client advisors and VM ambassadors on VM displays

Profile

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 2 - 3 years of related experience in visual merchandising
• Related Diploma in Art or Visual Communication
• Flair for creativity
• Meticulous and detail oriented
• Independent and self-disciplined
• Outgoing, dependable, and pro- active team player
• Good organizing and follow up skills
• Good interpersonal & communication skills
• Proficient in MS office especially MS excel

Additional information

Fendi is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in Rome. Since 1925, the year in which it was founded, Fendi has linked its success, its image, its quality, and the glamour of its products to a dual element: a delicate and precious equilibrium between tradition and modernity, the desire to preserve the values of the past and the courage to dare, innovate and astound.

Fendi provide equal employment opportunities and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our objective is to attract and retain individuals with core business skills and encourage internal mobility to leverage skills most effectively, accelerate professional growth and promote inter-cultural exchange. Our successes – both past, present and those to come – are all down to our people. We look for creative, curious, passionate and open-minded people with a desire to embrace Fendi’s culture and values.

FENDI
MAISON

The Fendi Maison was established by Adele and Edoardo Fendi in Rome in 1925. The opening of the first Fendi boutique – a handbag shop and fur workshop followed. Soon winning international acclaim, Fendi emerged as a brand renowned for its elegance, craftsmanship, innovation and style.
Called by the legendary five Fendi sisters, the collaboration with the late Karl Lagerfeld began back in 1965 and lasted 54 years. In 1992, Silvia Venturini Fendi seconded him in the Artistic Direction; in 1994, she is given the direction of Accessories and later of Menswear.
In 2000, the LVMH group acquires Fendi becoming in 2001 its majority shareholder. Appointed in 2020, Kim Jones held the role of Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear until 2024. Since 2020, Delfina Delettrez Fendi, fourth generation of the Fendi family, is Artistic Director of Jewellery. Today Fendi is synonymous with quality, tradition, experimentation and creativity