Bart Adriaensen

•Guide and support both over 100 brands, and the Maasmechelen Village Retail Team with creative visual merchandising to increase sales through visual excellence. •Review the Village’s retail and marketing calendars in order to proactively plan merchandising actions with the brands. •Ensure in-store POS-signage is coherent and consistent, and in-line with seasonal campaigns. •Coach and train store teams to increase their understanding of the importance of maintaining a good visual standard

*Develop the visual merchandising strategies for the Women EDC brand, in line with the Esprit corporate identity, global market demands, and local commercial priorities *Design and communicate appropriate visual merchandising guideline tools for the Retail and Wholesale store network *Create and lead workshops to upskill regional visual merchandise teams *Plan and support strategic store openings and rebuilds *Monitor visual merchandising implementations in the regional markets through store-visits

*Plan and oversee implementation of the visual merchandising strategies in 13 branches of New Look International, in line with local market demands and commercial priorities *Manage, support and coach the in-store visual merchandisers, store- and floormanagers, and sales teams, in order to consolidate consistently qualitative visual standards *Plan and implement visual merchandising strategies for store openings and rebuilds *Report to Regional Business Manager Belgium

*Plan and implement the window displays of two company branches in Antwerp *Select outfits and complete styling of the displays including background decor *Liaise with floor- and shop-managers, ensuring commercial displays in accordance with the H&M corporate profile, the H&M customer profile, and the focus on priority products *Implement the in-door merchandising of the different departments and concepts *Coach sales staff regarding merchandising strategies

*End responsibility for the correct and timely production of the bruno Pieters women’s ready to wear collection *Liaising with suppliers, manufacturers and clients *Supervise quality control, and coordinating the correct delivery of client orders *Maintain the collection archive and the stock of fabrics, furnishings, and garments *Organise general logistics of the enterprise