Retail Development Trainee

Embun Elit; Selangor; On-site; MYR 20,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A retail company in Selangor is seeking a passionate Retail Development Trainee to support its nationwide boutiques. This role involves hands-on experience in retail operations, training, visual merchandising, marketing support, and administrative tasks. Responsibilities include leading training, monitoring store execution, creating merchandising guidelines, and enhancing marketing campaigns. The ideal candidate must excel in communication, analytical skills, and be able to work independently while willing to travel for boutique visits.

Benefits

Travel allowance

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Can call, connect, and interact with various stakeholders.
• Able to manage workload independently and collaboratively.
• Willingness to travel for boutique visits.

Responsibilities

• Lead localisation of training materials and conduct trainings.
• Assist with routine store visits to monitor service execution.
• Help create visual merchandising guidelines and implement them.
• Support festive booths, pop-up events, and marketing campaigns.
• Assist in reporting, competitor checks, and promote tracking.

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Word

Proficient in Excel

Proficient in PowerPoint

Excellent communication skills

Analytical skills

Time-management skills

Ability to prioritize workload

Teamwork

Independence

Job description

We are looking for a passionate and motivated Retail Development Trainee to support our nationwide Himalaya boutiques. This role provides hands‑on experience across retail operations, training, visual merchandising (VM), marketing support and market research to ensure consistent, and portfolio growth as well as related administrative duties.

You will work closely with the Retail Operations team to ensure strong execution at store level and contribute to improving overall boutique performance.

PRINCIPAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Training & Development: To lead localisation of training materials for boutique team, and to conduct trainings for product and SOP knowledge.
• Retail Operations Support: Assist to conduct routine store visits to monitor execution, customer experience, stock health and SOP compliance.
• Merchandising & VM: Assist to create VM guidelines, and conduct checking to ensure planograms, product displays and POSM are implemented correctly.
• Marketing & Retail Campaigns: Support festive booths, pop‑up events, samplings and GWP programmes, as well as liaison with partners where needed.
• Reporting & Others: Assist in reporting, competitor checks, promotion tracking and monitor mystery shopper findings, as well as assist with enhancement.

REQUIREMENTS

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; the ability to call, connect, and interact with internal as well as external stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical and time‑management skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Able to travel for boutique visits when required (travel allowance provided).