Lead our retail strategy, driving retail performance and operational excellence for our brick and mortar sales channels. This role ensures the achievement of sell-out objectives, the implementation of brand standards and the development of retail talent, while creating an exceptional client experience.
Job responsibilities
Retail Performance:
- Achieve sustained growth in a highly competitive environment and balancing short-term results with long-term strategy building.
- Establish and monitor ambitious sales targets, ensuring the achievement of annual goals.
- Manage and guarantee the excellence in our brand and retail performance operation across 100+ points of sales, varying in size, format, and commercial dynamics.
- Optimization and implementation of retail tools
- Monitoring and improvement of retail indicators.
People Leadership & Development:
- Lead and inspire multi-generational teams to maintain a high level of motivation without losing focus on results, in order to retain and develop talent.
- Foster a culture of high performance, accountability, and customer obsession, in line with brand values.
- Develop training strategies in collaboration with the Retail & Education team, continuously elevating the level of service, sales skills, and brand knowledge.
- Implement incentive and recognition programs
Client Experience & Maison Standards:
- Ensure the consistency and excellence of the customer journey, ensuring compliance with the Maison's standards at every touchpoint.
- Implement best practices and new retail concepts that enhance customer engagement and loyalty.
Operational Excellence & Budget Management:
- Efficiently manage retail and training budgets, optimizing investments to maximize ROI.
- Work closely with other stakeholders and ensure that teams in other departments are aware of the impact of their processes and decisions on retail and on point-of-sale (POS) teams.
Relationships with clients:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with our customers and key stakeholders, negotiating favorable conditions and ensuring brand visibility and positioning.
Analysis & Reporting:
- Track and analyze retail indicators for sales, sell-out, inventory turnover, customer satisfaction, etc.
- Use the information obtained from data analysis to make informed decisions and optimize the retail strategy.
Profile
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Busiess Administration, Marketing, or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in leadership positions in the commercial area, preferably in the luxury retail sector.
- Demonstrable experience in managing large sales teams (300+ people).
- In-depth knowledge of the retail market and consumer behavior.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Results and service oriented
- Retail focus
- Advanced english
Key Competencies
- Strategic vision & execution excellence.
- Inspirational leadership & talent development.
- Customer-centric mindset with luxury retail sensitivity.
- Strong business acumen & financial management.
- Agility, adaptability and innovation orientation.
- Transversal leadership