Showroom Manager | Luxury Lifestyle Brand | Miami, FL
Working Style: Based in the showroom with travel
Are you a luxury retail leader with a passion for design, wellness, exceptional customer experiences, and building high-performing teams?
Our client is launching a new luxury showroom in Miami and is seeking an accomplished Showroom Manager to lead this exciting new location. This is an opportunity to become the face of a premium global brand while creating an elevated showroom experience that brings together luxury, design, technology, fitness, and wellness.
The ideal candidate brings a sophisticated understanding of luxury retail, a strong commercial mindset, and the ability to build meaningful relationships with discerning clients.
You will play a pivotal role in opening the showroom, developing the team, attracting new customers, driving sales, and creating an environment where every customer interaction feels exceptional.
Key Responsibilities
- Direct the FlagShip/Store/Corner in order to achieve sales objectives, ensuring a supreme customer experience
- Be proactive in attracting new customers, promoting and organizing events in order to generate new business opportunities
- Participate in and involve the sales teams in designing events and trade shows
- Nurture relationships with clients, in-store and outside the store, implementing customer database activities
- Promote a unique, memorable shopping experience by implementing customer focus, storytelling, extraordinary service, selling skills and aptitude
- Ensure store team participation by providing training sessions to develop and strengthen their knowledge on different topics such as collections, selling techniques, and brand and inspiration stories
- Liaise with other departments to guarantee excellent customer service
- Ensure good maintenance, a safe environment, excellent functioning of the store, as well as respect for visual merchandising instructions and excellent grooming standards
- Guarantee extensive knowledge of brand activities, locations, events, and marketing activities
- Facilitate and promote cooperation across Consumer Sales Channels (Retail, Teleselling and Field Sales)
Qualifications
- 8+ years’ experience as Store Manager in a luxury retail environment, preferably in the design field or working with luxury products
- Managerial experience with an emphasis on developing a business
- Previous retail management experience, exceptional customer-service skills, as well as a commercial focus and a consultative sales approach
- Ability to leverage networks by cultivating key relationships as well as knowledge of local marketing and media
- Ability to think strategically and a demonstrable entrepreneurial/hands-on approach
- Bold sense of initiative
- Ability to acquire some expertise in Store operation applications (Salesforce, SAP)
- Excellent team leadership - ability to create and cultivate a network
- Ability to work retail hours (some weekends/holidays required)