Head of Visual Merchandising, Europe

Levi Strauss & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fashion retailer seeks a Head of Visual Merchandising for Europe. This strategic role involves driving the VM strategy, leading a high-performing team, and ensuring brand excellence across markets. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in visual merchandising within premium fashion, with strong leadership and communication skills. Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and AutoCAD is essential. This position is full-time and based in Greater London, contributing to the organization's commitment to innovative consumer experiences.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive visual merchandising leadership experience.
• Proven expertise in building VM product strategies and training programs.
• Strong track record of leading high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term visual merchandising strategy for Europe.
• Lead the development of the VM product strategy in partnership with merchandising.
• Own the end-to-end VM training strategy for Europe.

Skills

Leadership

Visual Merchandising Strategy

Communication

Creativity

Education

10+ years experience in retail VM leadership

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

AutoCAD

Microsoft Office

Job description

Head of VM Europe page is loaded## Head of VM Europelocations: Ixelles, Belgium: Paris, France: London, United Kingdomtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R-0139519## **JOB DESCRIPTION****JOB PURPOSE**The **Head of Visual Merchandising, Europe** is a senior strategic leader responsible for driving the elevation, consistency, and commercial impact of Levi’s visual merchandising across the European marketplace. This role leads the regional execution of global brand strategy, ensuring that VM is a key driver of consumer experience, storytelling, and business growth.With full scope oof VM Training and VM Product Strategies, this position ensures that teams across all channels—from Owned & Operated to Franchise and Key Wholesale—are equipped with the right tools, knowledge, and strategic direction to deliver a seamless and aspirational in-store experience.Leading a team of Country VM Leaders and VM product strategy teams, partnering cross-functionally with Brand Experience, Merchandising, Planning, Sales, and Global counterparts, you will ensure a seamless VM execution and education that places the consumer at the center and strengthens Levi’s position as a market leader.**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES****Strategic Leadership & Regional Direction*** Define and drive the long-term visual merchandising strategy for Europe, aligning global brand objectives with regional priorities and local market nuances.* Represent VM at the most senior levels of cross-functional planning, ensuring brand, commercial, and consumer goals are interconnected.* Oversee and empower Country VM Leads to execute strategy with excellence, local relevance, and brand integrity across all formats and regions through on-site training and coaching* Lead a high performing team of VM, Styling and Product strategy team to ensure Europe is best in class and relevant across local markets.**Visual Merchandising Product Strategy*** Lead the development of the VM product strategy in partnership with Merchandising, Planning, and Global VM teams—ensuring key looks, product stories, and category priorities are visually brought to life in-store.* Define seasonal VM priorities and presentation standards based on consumer insights, commercial goals, and product lifecycle planning and key styling approach through a European lens.* Partner with Global VM and Merch teams to influence the toolkit creation, ensuring sell-in and sell-through are supported by compelling visual stories and clear zoning strategies.* Ensure best in class and pinnacle expression of our brand across our European Flagship locations and continually elevate.**VM Training & Capability Building*** Own the end-to-end VM training strategy for Europe, building a world-class program to elevate the capabilities of in-store VMRs, field teams, and franchise/wholesale partners.* Partner with global training functions to co-create scalable modules, workshops, and onboarding materials that reinforce brand standards and drive operational consistency.* Implement a structured learning cadence across regions, tailored to maturity levels and store formats, to continuously improve VM execution and understanding and ensure KPI’s and ROI are documented.**Consumer Experience & Field Execution*** Drive flawless execution of monthly and seasonal VM updates—including windows, styling, zoning, and campaign rollouts—through on-site training and coaching for our store VM teams.* Conduct regular market visits and field coaching to reinforce excellence, gather feedback, and evolve strategy based on real-time insights.* Ensure all store environments reflect Levi’s brand DNA, innovation, and visual consistency—regardless of channel or location.**Cross-Functional Influence & Communication*** Act as a strategic partner to Commercial, Retail, Merchandising, and Marketing teams to align product, VM, and consumer priorities.* Translate global toolkits into actionable, localized directives with clarity and consistency—ensuring timely and effective communication across all markets.* Provide ongoing feedback to Global and Cluster VM/BX teams, acting as a voice for the region and contributing to future global tool development.**Budget Management & Operational Excellence*** Own the regional VM budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources, cost control, and ROI optimization.* Maintain oversight of the regional VM calendar, aligning timelines and deliverables with marketing, commercial, and retail milestones.* Implement governance tools to monitor and measure executional quality, performance, and impact across channels.**Store Openings & Expansion Support*** Ensure VM strategy and execution for new market entries and store openings, ensuring visual standards and consumer experience are achieved from day one with on-site training during opening process.* Collaborate with Store Planning & Construction (SP&C) to ensure a seamless opening process is achieved and influence key learnings from each project.**JOB REQUIREMENTS****Qualifications & Experience:*** 10+ years of progressive VM leadership experience, preferably in multi-market or regional roles across premium/lifestyle/fashion retail.* Proven expertise in building and leading both VM product strategies and VM training programs at scale.* Strong track record of leading high-performing teams, influencing across functions, and driving tangible commercial impact through VM.* Solid understanding of revenue and KPI’s, consumer behavior, and how VM drives performance.* Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop), AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office.* Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills in matrixed environments.**Functional Competencies:*** **Brings Inspired Creative to Life** – Drives the brand “look and feel” through the right channels. Is fluent in next generation consumer marketing approaches to generate consumer interest and interaction.* **Innovation & Experimentation** - Executes new, forward looking and efficient approaches. Exhibits a ‘test and roll” mindset for experimentation in order to build learning and apply what works to bigger future efforts.* **Strategic** – looks beyond today, for long-term, sustained demand creation and energized brand equity differentiation.## ## **LOCATION**Ixelles, Belgium## ## **FULL TIME/PART TIME**Full time##Our common thread: We're originals.From day one, we've been doing it our way — creating our own drumbeat and building something that's different from the rest. That's why we're looking for people who are excited about finding their career fit and transforming the future. Because at Levi Strauss & Co., you can do what you love while staying true to who you are.