Managing Director at Retail Insights

Retail Insights; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Insights, a leading retail forum in Northern Europe, seeks a Managing Director to drive growth and strengthen its brand. This role offers the opportunity to lead a dynamic team and make a tangible impact in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, a proactive approach, and the ability to inspire others while working closely with the CEO.

Benefits

Operational experience in a start-up

Unlimited growth potential

Travel opportunities

Invaluable transferable skills

Qualifications

• Experience in business management is preferred.
• UK work permit is required.
• Ambitious, forward-thinking, and driven to inspire.

Responsibilities

• Inspire and lead teams to deliver exceptional experiences.
• Strengthen the brand in the global market.
• Identify and drive synergies across business functions.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Organizational Skills

Job description

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about people? If so, you might be our next Managing Director.

About us

Retail Insights is Northern Europe’s leading retail forum. We are strengthening the retail ecosystem by building a platform for insights, inspiration, and networking, connecting more than 3,000 leaders yearly from more than 15 countries.

Retail Insights is part of United Media ( https://www.united-media.com/ ) which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.

What we offer you

As our Managing Director you get the unique opportunity of being a key driver of our exponential growth curve. You’ll be working in-person in your HQ in London where you will constantly be pushed out of your comfort zone. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• Opportunity of having a real impact - You’ll be getting operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business.
• Inspiration and guidance - A chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company.
• Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.
• Travel opportunity: You would be joining our conferences overseas.
• Invaluable transferable skills - boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training.

Your Responsibilities

Responsibilities in this job will be defined as we work together throughout the recruitment process however, they will be mostly centred around:

• Thinking progressively about how we can deliver on our core mission through different products.
• Inspiring, leading and developing A+ teams to reach their full potential and deliver 7-star experiences to our network.
• Strengthening our brand in the global market.
• Identifying and driving synergies across business functions.
• To dream big and pursue it relentlessly!

What we expect from you

We are looking for experienced business managers to help us reach our objectives. Industry experience is not a requirement, but you do need to be highly ambitious, forward-thinking and driven to inspire and lead our team. Furthermore, having a UK work permit is also a requirement.

Furthermore, we are looking for candidates who:

• Have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what they do;
• Possess and unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency;
• Take ownership of everything they do, are proactive and follow through on commitments;
• Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations;
• Are an excellent communicator (especially) verbally and in writing;
• Are well-organised and display the ability to structure and prioritise their work.

Startdate

Flexible

Monday - Friday we work from our office (next to Victoria Station) and do not offer remote work.

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