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Born in Australia, loved around the world.
At Cotton On, we know good style goes well beyond what's in your wardrobe. We’re here to inspire, spark joy and bolster self-expression and creativity. We want our community to feel seen, heard and celebrated, and as a brand, we want to use our voice to make a positive difference in people's lives.
We’re playfully rebellious, always optimistic, and driven to do good things together. Join our world and help shape the future of our brand.
Benefits You’ll Love
- 50% team member discount across all brands
- Competitive pay
- 24/7 wellness support
- Performance & Peak incentives
- Medical, Dental, Vision & more for you and your family
- 401(k) matching + financial wellness support
- Development opportunities with room to grow
- Quarterly COG Awards & real-time recognition
About the Role
As the Area Visual Manager is responsible for leading and supporting Field Visual Merchandisers and store teams to bring our brand vision to life within their region. You will lead the execution of visual merchandising initiatives that engage and inspire our edit customer, ensuring consistent and impactful shopping experiences that drive commercial success. By maintaining Brand DNA and amplifying visual storytelling, you will create a cohesive in-store environment for our customers. Through leadership, coaching, and collaboration, you will empower store teams to confidently deliver visual excellence, building a culture of creativity, commercial agility, and ownership in visual presentation.
Must‑Have Skills & Experience
My performance is measured on:
- Achievement of region sales budget
- Achievement of region NPS target
- Achievement of engagement target
- Alignment to Brand VM guidelines
- Execution of VM standards and Brand guidelines
- Alignment to Our Way
Key responsibilities:
Visual Merchandising Excellence
- Lead the execution of brand VM direction across the area, ensuring alignment with national directives and showcasing newness in every shop.
- Oversee and support Store Teams in executing visual standards that amplify the big idea and key outfits, enhancing brand identity and commercial performance.
- Drive consistency in visual merchandising across all shops, ensuring clear sight-lines to hero products and key outfit storytelling.
- Influence and support store teams to create impactful shopping experiences that drive traffic and convert customers in-store.
- Partner with District & State Field Visual Merchandising Manager to deliver visual merchandising plans that maximise customer engagement and commercial impact.
- Set priorities for the team based on operating rhythm expectations and business needs, ensuring a structured and effective approach to visual execution.
Brand & Customer Experience
Commercial & Operational Excellence
Coaching & Team Development
- Lead, coach, and develop Store Teams, ensuring they confidently implement the big idea and amplify key outfits in every shop.
- Provide regular coaching, training, and feedback to store teams to build visual merchandising capability and maintain high brand standards.
- Drive ownership and pride in visual presentation by encouraging initiative within the framework.
- Drive team engagement by recognizing high performance and providing continuous learning opportunities.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to stand, walk, lift, carry, push, or pull up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to travel as needed (up to 20%)
- Comfortable moving equipment, product, or props as needed for shoots.
Who are we?
Cotton On’s purpose is to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Born in Australia, Cotton On is a global fashion and lifestyle retailer with eight brands across 22 countries and 1,500 stores. Powered by 20,000 team members, who together with our customers, are making a positive impact through one life-changing Foundation. Taking their Aussie lifestyle to the world and delivering Good along the way, Cotton On brands offer youthful fashion and lifestyle products across women's, men’s, kids, body, accessories and stationery.
We are proud of our diverse global workforce of 20,000 team members from countless nationalities, and we strongly welcome and encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply with us.
We are focused on bringing more voices, experiences and backgrounds to our workforce as we drive diverse and inclusive outcomes for our team and our customers.
If you have any individual needs in order to fully participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at hrusa@cottonon.com.au so we may support you in completing the job application process.
OR: This is a full time hourly position with a wage range of $24.50-$27.50/hr
About Company
Cotton On is the founding brand of the Group and has grown to become a global fashion destination with over 600 stores worldwide. We thrive on delivering the trends of the moment (always with our own twist) and inspire our community to have fun with it. Our product offering includes womenswear, menswear and accessories.
Company
From Australia to the world - The Cotton On Group (known in-house as COG) is Australia's largest global retailer. With 7 brands, 19 countries, 1500 stores and counting; we exist to make a positive difference in the lives of everyone we touch. Our people are optimistic, innovative and highly motivated; they share a genuine belief in themselves and others and they aren't afraid to think big.