Manager Retail Marketing - Product Experience (6 months contract)

At Swarovski, where innovation meets inspiration, our people desire to explore, experience, and create. We are looking for a Manager in Retail Marketing where you will get a chance to work in a rewarding role within a diverse team that is pushing boundaries. Be part of a truly iconic global brand, learn and grow with us. We’re bold and inventive, revealing astonishing things like no one else can. A world of wonder awaits you.

About the job

• Lead the definition of Visual Merchandising concepts and modules for each program (approx. 12 per year) for the Jewelry and Watches category across channels and retail formats, bring product stories to life via product presentations and necessary visual/communication aids

• Design product displays, identify zoning approach

• Ensure a proper plan is in place (including engineering and production samples sign off) of retail short-life and long-life communication tools as well as digital in store activations for Monobrand and Multibrand stores, in all existing store formats

• Drive message and visual consistency across all relevant consumer communication touch points in order to maximize communication effectiveness to consumers

• Ensure proper testing/analytics/data are tracked and measured to maximize ROI of all tools developed

• Manage, brief creative agency

• Steer product selection for all relevant retail touch points

• Ensure compliance of all tools developed to ensure market’s needs are met best

• Ensure legal, finance and IP compliance

• Provide deployment content (e.g. implementation rules for markets, guidelines, trainings etc.)

• Manage the given development budget

• Ensure compliance of internal stewardship requirements and processes

About you

We are looking for a unique and amazing talent, who brings along the following:

• Degree in Fashion/Design Business or similar – strong focus on Visual Merchandising

• 5+ years of professional experience in a similar VM role within an international setting

• Luxury retail experience is a plus

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Attention to detail and excellent organization skills

• Team orientation, and ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization

• Innovative and creative approach whenever possible and can-do attitude

• Excellent English proficiency, German would be an advantage

• Willingness to work in Zurich, to be hands-on to support showroom setups

About Swarovski

Swarovski is a Wonderlab where magic and science meet.

Swarovski unifies all parts of its organization under one spellbinding idea and brings forward a wondrous new world of crystal craftsmanship. Founded in 1895 in Austria, the company designs, manufactures and sells the world’s highest quality crystal, genuine gemstones, Swarovski Created Diamonds and zirconia, jewelry, and accessories, as well as crystal objects and home accessories. Together with its sister companies Swarovski Optik (optical devices) and Tyrolit (abrasives), Swarovski Crystal Business forms the Swarovski Group.

A responsible relationship with people and the planet has always been an integral part of Swarovski’s heritage. This manifests today in the company’s well-established sustainability agenda with youth-focused education programs and foundations to promote human empowerment and conserve natural resources to achieve positive social impact.