
Chanel
Visual Merchandising Manager – Luxury Fashion Boutique (Dubai Mall)
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 12/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
26/02/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Job description
The Visual Merchandising Manager – Dubai Mall is responsible for coordinating all visual merchandising activities within the Dubai Mall fashion boutique, reporting to the Retail Visual Merchandising Manager and leading a team of in-store Visual Merchandisers. The role drives the implementation of impactful visual merchandising strategies that enhance client experience and reflect brand vitality, ensuring excellence in collection presentation, image standards, and operational execution. Responsibilities include planning and executing collection launches, boutique animations, and celebrations based on product deliveries and buys, ensuring timely delivery of VM tools, and preparing and implementing product category zoning in advance of collection redress. The position requires independent adaptation of global VM guidelines into the boutique context while maintaining alignment with brand image and collection storytelling. The manager collaborates closely with Sales Managers, Boutique Director, and stock teams to integrate commercial priorities into displays, support rotations, and align visual merchandising with business objectives. The role includes proposing strategic VM updates based on boutique performance and product priorities, monitoring and analyzing VM impact through feedback and commercial insights, and sharing findings and recommendations. It also involves educating boutique teams on the creative direction of window displays and interior displays, raising awareness of VM’s role during morning briefings, ensuring clear communication of VM changes to boutique management, and supporting collection launches in other boutiques as needed, all while adhering to brand procedures and maintaining high standards of operational excellence in a luxury fashion retail environment.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Plan and execute collection launches, boutique animations, and celebrations by developing and presenting visual merchandising plans aligned with product deliveries and buys and ensuring timely delivery of VM tools.
- Lead and organize the in-store Visual Merchandisers team, inspiring execution excellence in daily visual merchandising activities.
- Prepare and implement product category zoning in advance of collection redress and coordinate with stock teams to ensure efficient execution of display zoning.
- Interpret and integrate global VM guidelines into the boutique context while maintaining alignment with brand image and collection storytelling.
- Collaborate with Sales Managers and Boutique Director to align displays with commercial objectives, rotations, and business priorities.
- Propose strategic visual merchandising updates and rotations based on boutique performance and product priorities.
- Monitor and analyze the impact of visual merchandising initiatives using commercial insights and share findings and recommendations with management.
- Educate boutique teams on the creative direction of window displays and interior displays during morning briefings and ensure clear communication of VM changes and objectives.
- Support collection launches in other boutiques when required while adhering to brand procedures and image standards.
Experience & skills
- Demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of experience in visual merchandising within a luxury fashion brand.
- Apply strong understanding of visual merchandising principles, collection storytelling, and zoning techniques in a boutique environment.
- Align visual merchandising activities with business objectives through solid commercial awareness and retail performance analysis.
- Communicate visual merchandising concepts clearly to boutique teams and leadership in spoken and written English.
- Exhibit flexibility to work late shifts, overnights, and weekends as required in a luxury retail setting.