Visual Merchandiser - Southeast Region - Atlanta, GA
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About Brighton
Brighton is an iconic accessories brand devoted to creating beautiful products and meaningful experiences for customers. Our collections are designed by talented artisans and sold through Brighton retail stores and a carefully curated network of specialty retailers across the country.
For over fifty years, our success has been built on artistry, craftsmanship, and long-term relationships with the retailers who represent our brand. Our Visual Merchandisers play an essential role in this partnership-helping retailers create compelling presentations, elevate the customer experience, and bring the Brighton story to life through impactful visual merchandising and brand storytelling.
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About the Role
For someone who loves specialty retail, visual storytelling, and building meaningful relationships, this is a unique opportunity to represent the Brighton brand while helping retailers create inspiring customer experiences across the Southeast.
Brighton is seeking a results-driven Visual Merchandiser to support and elevate our specialty retail partners across the Southeast region. This role combines visual merchandising, training, and business partnership to bring the Brighton brand to life in stores while supporting sales growth and customer engagement.
The ideal candidate is creative, self-motivated, and excited by the opportunity to travel throughout the region, build strong retail partnerships, and create exceptional brand experiences that inspire customers and drive results.
Role Summary
The Visual Merchandiser is responsible for bringing Brighton's brand story to life by creating engaging and premium in-store experiences across a designated region. This role partners with store owners, managers, sales teams, Regional Sales Managers, Account Executives, and cross-functional peers to elevate visual presentation, drive customer engagement, and optimize product performance.
Key Responsibilities
Territory & Overnight Travel
This position supports Brighton specialty retailers throughout the Southeast region and includes responsibility for the Atlanta Showroom which entails inventory management, seasonal setups, market support, and maintaining visual merchandising standards.
The role is highly field-focused and requires regular travel to retail locations, showroom activities, markets, and special projects. Candidates should be comfortable traveling extensively throughout the region and occasionally to the Los Angeles HQ.
What Makes a Great Brighton Visual Merchandiser
The ideal candidate is creative, detail-oriented, and results-driven, with a passion for building strong relationships and creating exceptional retail experiences. Successful candidates take pride in helping retailers succeed through impactful visual merchandising, training, and collaboration.
Experience in visual merchandising within fashion accessories, apparel, jewelry, home décor and lifestyle brands, or specialty retail is preferred.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement
Brighton is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all employees.
This may not be a true fairytale, but it's as close to one as real life gets. Once upon a time, in the late 1960s, there were two high-school sweethearts living in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles – Jerry Kohl and Terri Kravitz (who is now Terri Kohl). They met, fell in love and started their own specialty store while they were still in high school. Each day when class ended, they opened their store selling T-shirts and leather goods to their classmates. After graduating in 1969, they operated their store full-time.
In the next chapter, as storeowners, they experienced the challenges small stores face, such as getting merchandise delivered on time. Jerry had ideas for improving things. Coincidentally, a couple named Lee and Ginny, vendors of theirs who owned a business that made belts, handbags and sandals out of a warehouse in Redondo Beach, California wanted to phase themselves out of their business. A short two years later, Lee and Ginny decided to sell their company in order to realize their dream of living in New Zealand where the surf was better! So, at age 19, Jerry bought into their company, Leegin, and set out to fill their shoes supplying specialty stores with leather goods (while Lee and Ginny traded their shoes for fins!).