Global Retail Portfolio Manager

Dyson Institute; Singapore; On-site; SGD 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute is seeking a Global Retail Portfolio Manager to shape and govern Dyson's global retail portfolio, driving sustainable growth, optimal customer reach, and strong returns on capital. The role blends portfolio strategy, network planning, investment governance, commercial analysis, and cost management to support expansion, optimisation, and long‑term value creation.

Working with regional and market leaders, you will evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions, and monitor

Job description

Global Retail Portfolio Manager Summary

The Global Retail Portfolio Manager is responsible for shaping and governing Dyson's global retail portfolio, ensuring investments deliver sustainable growth, optimal customer reach, and strong returns on capital. This role combines portfolio strategy, network planning, investment governance, commercial analysis, and retail development cost management to support retail expansion, optimisation, and long‑term value creation. Working closely with regional and market leaders, the Retail Portfolio Manager evaluates new opportunities, challenges investment assumptions, develops strategic recommendations, and monitors portfolio performance to ensure investments deliver against approved business cases. The role also serves as the global subject matter expert for retail development costs, providing robust CAPEX planning, benchmarking, and investment guidance across all retail formats.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Strategy & Network Planning

Develop and maintain the global retail portfolio strategy, identifying growth opportunities, optimisation actions, and whitespace opportunities. Conduct market assessments using demographic, catchment, competitive, economic, and consumer data to inform future network planning. Evaluate store expansion, relocation, refurbishment, downsizing, and closure opportunities. Assess the effectiveness of the current retail footprint and recommend the optimal channel mix across Direct, Indirect, E-Commerce, and Omni-channel. Consolidate retail performance, market potential, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to support annual retail strategies and long‑term planning. Monitor the global retail pipeline and provide visibility of opportunities, risks, dependencies, and investment priorities. Develop strategic portfolio recommendations that balance customer experience, commercial performance, and capital efficiency.

Investment Governance & Business Case Management

Assess financial assumptions, revenue forecasts, productivity expectations, and operating models and challenge investment proposals submitted by markets. Evaluate ROI, payback, profitability, strategic fit, and capital requirements and support scenario modelling and strategic decision‑making through commercial analysis. Provide recommendations to senior leadership regarding investment approvals. Ensure investment decisions are aligned with global retail strategy, growth ambitions, and capital allocation priorities.

Business Case Performance & Portfolio Accountability

Conduct regular post‑investment reviews to assess whether approved stores and retail investments are delivering against original business case assumptions. Monitor performance against key investment metrics including sales, profitability, ROI, payback, productivity, customer acquisition, and operating costs and recommend corrective actions, optimisation plans, or portfolio interventions on underperforming investments. Evaluate portfolio returns and investment effectiveness to improve future investment decision‑making. Develop frameworks to track business case accuracy and identify recurring forecasting risks or assumption gaps. Create portfolio performance reporting that provides leadership visibility of investment outcomes versus approved business cases.

Retail Development Cost Planning & Commercial Oversight

Support Markets CAPEX estimates for boutiques, flagships, shop‑in‑shops, service centres, outlets, and emerging retail concepts. Provide development cost inputs and investment assumptions for business case preparation and develop alternative investment scenarios and comparative cost models. Support market teams in evaluating alternative formats, concepts, and investment options through detailed financial analysis.

Portfolio Performance & Reporting

Maintain reporting on portfolio health, investment pipeline, network performance, and capital deployment. Identify opportunities to improve retail productivity, capital efficiency, and portfolio returns. Support senior leadership with portfolio reviews, investment prioritisation, and long‑range planning exercises.

Key Competencies Required

Ability to assess markets, identify growth opportunities, and build long‑term network strategies. Strong understanding of retail P&L drivers and investment governance, retail portfolio economics and channel strategy. Advanced capability in evaluating business cases, ROI, NPV, payback, profitability, and capital investment decisions. Strong understanding of retail development costs, CAPEX planning, fit‑out benchmarking, and store economics. Strong analytical capabilities to assess the effectiveness of existing investments and challenge performance against approved business cases, and recommend corrective actions. Ability to model multiple investment scenarios and synthesise multiple data sources into clear investment recommendations. Experience using performance, demographic, market, customer, and competitive data. Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior leaders and challenge assumptions without direct authority. Ability to balance customer experience objectives with investment efficiency. Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain disciplined portfolio governance.

Success Measures (Recommended Addition)

Business case forecast accuracy. CAPEX forecasting accuracy. Portfolio optimisation value generated. Quality and timeliness of investment recommendations. Adoption of portfolio governance and reporting standards globally.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity. At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start‑up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.