Boutique Manager, River Oaks

Maison Francis Kurkdjian; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Maison Francis Kurkdjian is seeking a Boutique Business Manager in Houston to lead sales and training activities, ensuring exceptional client service and a luxurious brand experience.

You will drive weekly recaps, plan events, mentor staff, and maintain brand standards, while managing CRM, inventory, and store operations to achieve targets in a premium retail environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in prestige beauty/fragrance sales and management at boutique stores
• Experience as Business Manager, Sales and/or Training
• Passionate about MFK brand and values; able to convey this to team and clients
• Empathetic, positive, results-oriented with entrepreneurial mindset
• Strong recruitment and team-building; effective communication
• Networking across relevant levels
• Resourceful with analytical problem-solving for store management
• Confidentiality of business at the counter

Responsibilities

• Manage the execution of sales activities to meet monthly, seasonal, and annual sales goals; hold boutique team accountable for sales and IPT goals
• Complete weekly business recaps for Account Executive and Sales Director team
• Plan, organize, staff, and execute in-store events; schedule trainings and morning meetings for launches and promotions
• Maintain luxurious brand image through merchandising, staff presentation, counter cleanliness and organization
• Keep staff informed with tools for daily business, including smart sampling and gifting
• Analyze business results; communicate trends and needs to Regional leadership
• Maintain excellent customer relations and CRM entries with timely follow-up
• Track daily activity: sales, samples, stock; diversify to improve underperforming items
• Develop expertise in MFK procedures, product knowledge and selling efficiency
• Complete Backstage training courses 100%
• Be available for store alarm calls and coordination with maintenance
• Oversee inventory, visual changes, scheduling, and POS needs for daily operations

Skills

Sales leadership

Training

Team building

Networking

Analytical skills

Communications

Confidentiality

Availability

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Company Description

Born/Co-founded in 2009, Maison Francis Kurkdjian is a luxury fragrance house that carries the name of one of the most celebrated perfumers of our time. Based in Paris, Maison Francis Kurkdjian is a Maison housed under LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group. The Maison is known for its creativity, know-how, product quality, global upscale distribution, and customer experience. Designed out of the tradition of a luxury perfumery, the fragrance nevertheless advocates a contemporary vision of the art, of creating and wearing perfume. Maison Francis Kurkdjian has a very selective distribution network in more than 45 countries over the world within the ultra-premium segment of the market. In the US and North America, products are sold at Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, and select Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales, Holt Renfrew and Nordstrom stores, as well as the Maison Francis Kurkdjian boutique in the Miami Design District.

Company Description

Born/Co-founded in 2009, Maison Francis Kurkdjian is a luxury fragrance house that carries the name of one of the most celebrated perfumers of our time. Based in Paris, Maison Francis Kurkdjian is a Maison housed under LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group. The Maison is known for its creativity, know-how, product quality, global upscale distribution, and customer experience. Designed out of the tradition of a luxury perfumery, the fragrance nevertheless advocates a contemporary vision of the art, of creating and wearing perfume. Maison Francis Kurkdjian has a very selective distribution network in more than 45 countries over the world within the ultra-premium segment of the market. In the US and North America, products are sold at Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, and select Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales, Holt Renfrew and Nordstrom stores, as well as the Maison Francis Kurkdjian boutique in the Miami Design District.
Maison Francis Kurkdjian invites you today to join its North America teams.
Maison Francis Kurkdjian is part of the LVMH Group.

Job Description

• Managing the execution of sales activities to meet and exceed monthly, seasonal, and annual sales goals by holding boutique team accountable for sales and IPT goals
• Completing weekly business recaps for Account Executive and Sales Director team
• Planning, organizing, staffing, and executing special events. Partnering with Senior Regional Account Executive/Training Manager to schedule and execute in-Store trainings/morning meetings for launches, promotions, company focuses, etc.
• Maintaining impeccable and luxurious brand image by monitoring proper product merchandising, staff presentation and the Counter cleanliness and organization
• Keeping boutique staff well informed and supplied with the proper tools for them to manage their daily business. Including smart sampling, wrapping ceremonies and the art of gifting
• Monitoring business and analyzing results to recognize areas of opportunity, areas of growth, and CRM opportunities to build and impact on overall business and communicating with the Regional Account Executive and Regional Sales Director on business trends, opportunities and boutique needs
• Maintaining excellent customer relations and delighting the customer by providing outstanding customer service. Ensuring every client is placed into CRM system and monitoring team follow up
• Consistently track daily business activity: sales, samples, and stock. Monitoring sales diversification to improve sales on items underperforming to North America and expectations
• Develop professional expertise regarding MFK business procedures, product knowledge, and selling efficiency
• Consistent utilization of MFK Backstage training app, ensuring courses are completed at 100%.
• Responsible and available for store alarm calls, letting maintenance and contract workers in prior to store opening and remaining with them
• Execute and maintain operational management of the boutique; responsibilities of store not limited to but including:
• Monthly/Quarterly boutique inventory
• Quarterly visual change out and repair requests
• Monthly schedule for store and team to be given to AE for final approval
• Daily inventory and POS management, communication of needs to Account Executive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of prestige beauty, fragrance, and/or skincare sales and management experience at a Boutique or freestanding store environment.
• Prior experience as Business Manager, Sales and/or Training.
• Passionate about MFK brand and its values, and able to convey this passion to the team and the clients.
• Empathetic and positive, results-oriented, and with an entrepreneurial mindset to develop the business.
• Team player and strong listener, in addition to knowledge of how to recruit and build a high-performing and collaborative team. Effective communication skills required.
• Must be able to network and build partnerships across all relevant levels.
• Resourceful and strong analytic skills for proactive problem solving and for improving the store management on a continuous basis.
• Able to understand and maintain confidentiality of business at the counter.
• Microsoft Office experience preferred.
• Availability must meet the needs of the business.
• Limited travel based on needs of the business.

Additional Information

This job description is intended to cover the core accountabilities of the position and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

LVMH Inc. uses the published salary range as a guideline to provide our employees with market competitive pay while allowing for flexibility to recognize and reward various levels of expertise, performance, and tenure.

While the published salary range is a good faith reflection of the targeted salary level for the position, LVMH Inc. reserves the right to pay outside of the published range of $80,000-$90,000.