Job Description

Visual Coordinator

Footasylum is a leading UK-based retailer specialising in streetwear and sportswear, committed to delivering innovative and trend-setting products to our customers, with a strong focus on digital transformation and data-driven decision-making.

We are looking for a Visual Coordinator to join our Retail Ops Team based in Rochdale - As a Visual Coordinator you will be reporting into the Head Of VM and working closely alongside the Area Manager.

About You

We are looking for someone who embodies the Footasylum values - Collaboration, Communication & Challenge. You will be an expert in UK culture and a brand fanatic.

Drive retail revenue and protect brand identity across the estate by translating commercial strategies into high-impact, creative visual merchandising briefs. Supporting both strategic design and field compliance, you will optimise category product presentation, align display briefs with marketing campaigns, and elevate the overall consumer shopping experience. This role is head-office based with occasional field based store visits.

Skills/Experience

• Assist the Senior VM Coordinator in creating VM guidelines and briefs.

• Compile image assets for guidelines and briefs through store visits and clear communication with the visual team.

• Provide photo packs for key stakeholders highlighting store VM executions and new store openings.

• Create bi-weekly mannequin styling guides that align with company strategy, educate staff on key styling principles, and consider hyper-locality.

• Align with Marketing teams to ensure all campaign briefs are consistent with company strategy.

• Report on all campaign and brand activations in stores.

• Analyse weekly sales and stock reports to ensure all visual packs are commercial and prioritise high-earning product lines.

• Highlight best practices to guide store teams towards driving retail revenue.

• Support the preparation of seasonal training events and new store opening materials.

• Create regular competitor analysis reports.

• Maintain digital libraries of guidelines, feedback logs, and competitor analysis reports.

• Support on-site execution for new store openings, re-fits, and franchise brand activations.

• Maintain an inventory tracker for modular kits and VM props across the estate.

Key Attributes:

• A strong blend of creative flair and immaculate attention to detail.

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator is essential

• Communication: Clear written and verbal skills to communicate effectively with store teams.

• Experience: 3-4 years of experience in a retail VM role.

• Full UK driving license required

Why Footasylum?

We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills. Our aim is to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building services to customers and the wider business. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you. Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office/Studio in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.