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Visual Merchandising Associate Manager

Creative Circle
Boston, MA Contractor
POSTED ON 1/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/4/2026

Visual Merchandising Associate Manager (Wholesale)

Position Overview
The Visual Merchandising Associate Manager (Wholesale) will be responsible for developing and implementing compelling visual displays that effectively communicate the brand's aesthetic and drive sales through our wholesale partners. This role involves collaboration with various teams to ensure consistency and excellence in brand representation across all channels.

This is a 6-month parental leave coverage. Candidates must be local to Boston and will be required to work onsite 3 days per week, Tuesday through Thursday. 


Key Responsibilities:

 

Visual Merchandising

  • Work with the Creative Visual Merchandising and Operations team to support the execution of all visual experience concepts, spaces, and properties in assigned wholesale accounts.
  • Brief all creative needs to the Creative and Operations team.
  • Develop and manage maintenance and refresh schedules for all graphics, shop-in-shop, and visual experience elements needed within assigned wholesale accounts.
  • Collaborate with 3rd Party VM support, assign job missions for significant rollouts, and report recaps to the broader team on specific market visits.
  • Support the Senior Manager of Visual Merchandising Wholesale with any ad hoc projects, such as Showroom setup during account meetings, presentation decks, and events.

Brand

  • Act as a brand ambassador by supporting the execution of the brand's wholesale experience strategies across assigned North American wholesale accounts.
  • Maintain focus on the consumer target, competition, and current trends relevant to the brand.
  • Possess a clear understanding of Brand guidelines and their adaptation for consumer-facing channels.

Business

  • Leverage data, sell-thru results, and key investments to inform presentation strategies.
  • Utilize visual merchandising software (e.g., IWD) to inform all future visual merchandising decisions through heat mapping and SKU productivity reporting for our SIS.

 

Qualifications

  • 3 years of relevant work experience in a visual merchandising environment, preferably within the Wholesale environment, with 1-3 years at the regional corporate level.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in fashion design, visual merchandising, or retail marketing/management.
  • Proficiency with PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator)
  • Ability to visualize and articulate concepts for 3D environments using VM software programs for floor set creation (e.g., IWD).
  • Excellent taste level in merchandising, styling, fixture design, store layout, and directives.
  • Strong independent working capability, fostering trust, collaboration, and teamwork, and consistently displaying a strong sense of ethics and integrity.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work as part of a team in a dynamic environment.
  • Extensive knowledge of fashion, design, and visual merchandising trends.
  • May involve lifting 45 lbs and climbing a ladder for installations.
  • Ability to travel for supervising projects (overnight or weekends may be required).

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 01/04/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.

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