■Recruitment Background:
GU, one of the major brands within the Fast Retailing Group, aims to become a true global brand. Guided by its brand message, "YOUR FREEDOM: The freedom to reinvent yourself," GU creates hit products that capture master trends, offers compelling styling proposals expressing the latest fashion, prevents stockouts of best-selling items, and delivers products and services that exceed customer expectations.
To become a truly global brand, GU still faces many challenges. These include building a stronger management team through the recruitment and development of diverse talent, enhancing the quality of products and styling, creating shopping environments that are easy for customers to navigate,We are seeking a VMD Manager candidate to join us in advancing our global challenge based on GU's unique brand value: "Mini Max edit" – maximizing fashion enjoyment with minimal SKUs and prices. This will be achieved through comprehensive transformations across all aspects of the apparel business, including improving the accuracy of quantity and sales planning, and establishing a flexible system for additional production.

■Department Overview
The assigned IMD (In-Store Merchandising) Department is responsible for in-store merchandising. As the overall producer of store creation and operations, it aims to transform stores—the direct point of contact with customers—into spaces where GU's brand message is expressed in every aspect, ensuring all visiting customers enjoy fashion.

The IMD Department consists of two teams: the Layout Team, which devises optimal in-store product layouts, and the VMD Team, which communicates the appeal of laid-out products through mannequin styling. This recruitment is for the VMD Team. Rather than VMD staff achieving things alone, they collaborate with members from various internal departments—such as the Layout Team, MD, Sales Department handling store operations, and stores themselves—to drive the creation of optimal sales floors.

■Job Description:
GU provides the latest fashion. To help customers visually understand the image and appeal of each product, you will attractively express the concept and story behind each item. Through mannequin styling, you will create sales floors that allow customers to enjoy fashion and shopping.
Specifically, the duties include:
・Monthly and weekly mannequin styling and sales floor presentation. This applies to all domestic and international stores (including new stores and flagship stores), executed according to sales floor layout strategies and concepts.
・Developing mannequin styling guidelines for implementation across all GU stores worldwide
・Styling for in-store promotional materials
・Sales activities to achieve ideal VMD across all GU stores globally and development of team members
・The Job Description may change within the scope of tasks related to various headquarters departments due to department transfers or organizational changes

■Career Path
Possibilities include advancing as a global VMD lead to deepen expertise, or taking on challenges in other teams within the IMD Department, such as layout design.

■Required Experience, Skills, and Abilities
・5+ years of experience planning and executing brand retail space concepts, not limited to the apparel industry
・Ability to grasp trends, market shifts, and the essence of matters
・Ability to collaborate with others and demonstrate leadership
・Management skills for personnel development

■Desired Candidate Profile
・Someone capable of creating business-driven stores that go beyond mere interior decoration, where customers enjoy shopping, ultimately driving sales 
・Someone who can express trendy fashion while thoroughly considering how to showcase the concept, product characteristics, and story behind each item on the sales floor, presenting the entire store as a single wardrobe and styling
・Individuals who can create stores considering sales plans and sales trends, in addition to their sense and sensibility for showcasing products

■Company Name: GU Co., Ltd.

■Employment Type: Full-time Employee

■Annual Salary
・Annual Salary Range: ¥6.24 million - ¥13.5 million (Monthly Salary: ¥390,000 - ¥750,000)
・Allowances: Commuting allowance, overtime allowance, etc. (※All subject to company regulations)
・Bonuses: Semi-annual bonuses twice a year, year-end bonus (Payment and amount determined based on company performance and personnel evaluation)
・Promotions twice a year (determined based on performance evaluation)

*Determined based on company policy, considering previous annual income and experience, not limited to the above

■Working Hours
Flextime system or managerial/supervisory role
・Flextime system
Standard daily working hours: 8 hours, Break: 1 hour
Core hours: 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Flexible time: 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Overtime work may occur)

・Supervisory employees
Based on the working hours of the assigned department, determined by the employee

■Holidays & Leave
Two days off per week (Saturdays and Sundays; national holidays are workdays) Annual paid leave, special/bereavement leave, childcare/nursing care leave systems, etc.
※Special leave granted in the first and second halves of the year, separate from paid leave (number of days varies by employment type and company)

■Insurance Coverage
Social Insurance (Health Insurance, Employees' Pension Insurance, Employment Insurance, Workers' Accident Compensation Insurance, Long-Term Care Insurance)

■Employee Benefits
Employee stock ownership program, mutual aid association, affiliated welfare programs, employee discount system, cafeteria, dedicated shuttle bus (for commuting to Ariake Office), defined contribution pension plan (full-time employees only)

■Other
・Our company actively recruits mid-career hires across various group entities (Fast Retailing, UNIQLO, GU, etc.). We encourage you to review the following information before considering your application.
- Simultaneous applications to multiple group companies within the Fast Retailing Group are possible. However, please note that even if you progress in the selection process for multiple companies, you can only advance to the final selection stage for one position at a time.
- Based on your submitted resume and interview evaluations, we may discuss opportunities for different positions or companies within the Fast Retailing Group.
・Smoking Prevention Measures: Smoking is prohibited on the premises and indoors. No designated smoking rooms are provided. (Smoking is prohibited during working hours, including breaks.)

Ariake Headquarters: UNIQLO CITY, 1-6-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo

*Work locations may require travel between offices due to operational needs.
*The location may be changed to a location designated by the company, including overseas locations.