Our client, a luxury fashion and resortwear brand, is seeking an experienced Store Director to lead its Miami location. This individual will own the overall performance of the boutique, with a strong focus on sales growth, luxury clienteling, team leadership, and local business development. The ideal candidate is well connected within the Miami luxury market, brings an established network of high-value clients, and has a proven ability to grow a retail business through relationships, partnerships, and exceptional service.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead overall store performance across sales, profitability, client development, operations, and team performance
- Develop strategies to drive revenue growth, client acquisition, retention, and repeat business
- Build and expand a strong portfolio of high-value clients through personalized outreach, CRM, and appointment selling
- Personally cultivate relationships with top clients while coaching the team to develop their own books of business
- Establish and manage clienteling, outreach, appointment, and acquisition goals across the team
- Develop strategic local partnerships with luxury hotels, resorts, country clubs, residential communities, travel advisors, concierge teams, stylists, and other businesses serving affluent clientele
- Represent the store at networking events, community gatherings, charitable events, and brand activations
- Execute private shopping experiences, client events, styling appointments, and other initiatives designed to generate new business
- Recruit, train, coach, and retain high-performing luxury retail talent
- Analyze traffic, conversion, UPT, AOV, client retention, CRM engagement, appointment conversion, event ROI, and other performance metrics
- Monitor local market trends and competitive activity to identify new business opportunities
- Oversee store operations, inventory management, and visual merchandising standards
Qualifications
- 8+ years of luxury retail management experience with a demonstrated record of driving sales and profitability
- Proven success growing a retail business through client acquisition, networking, partnerships, and community engagement
- Established client book and existing relationships with luxury consumers within the Miami/South Florida market
- Experience developing local partnerships that generate measurable business results
- Strong experience leading, coaching, and developing luxury retail teams
- Deep understanding of luxury clienteling, CRM practices, and appointment-based selling
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to use KPIs and performance data to guide business decisions
- Polished executive presence with exceptional relationship-building and communication skills
- Experience with POS systems, CRM/clienteling platforms, inventory management, and reporting tools
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising, Marketing, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent relevant experience considered
- Ability to work a flexible retail schedule and support events and client appointments as needed