Responsibilities

Requirement 

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Comfortable communicating with partners at all levels, both internal and external.

• Builds trust and confidence by utilizing effective collaboration and coordination skills and competencies.
• Strong background analyzing the competition and adapting strategies and tactics in the marketplace.
• Strong organizational and leadership skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Retail know-how with hands-on experience managing all aspects of a retail business.
• A solid track record in talent management- recruiting, hiring, development
• Demonstrated track record of improving sales figures and KPI achievements
• Experience in managing Microsoft suite - Presentations, Excel, Outlook and more.

Responsibilities:

• To drive the enterprise vision for retail through strategic planning, operational management and good leadership of people. Create long- and short-term product sales forecasts and analysis for management.

• Maximize profitability by exceeding store sales plan, KPI goals and driving store sales targets for the team.
• Analyze current and future outlet sales trends, proactively identifying business opportunities to improve sales metrics
• Build, coach, manage and develop teams from a staffing, interviewing, hiring and training standpoint.
• Becoming a merchandiser extraordinaire! Shelves should be stocked and attractive, priced correctly, and displayed in a safe manner.

• Build the concept, Implement across outlets, Manage and oversee store merchandising and responsible to maintain store look and feel in a compelling and exciting manner, while in accordance with company directives.

• Consistently ensuring the outlet is fully stocked with merchandise, managing inventory levels, and product flow
• Maintain procurement processes for all outlets related to Retail.
• Overseeing retail inventories and ensuring minimum deviations.
• Directly recruit, hire and develop the store team to success, coaching staff through consistent feedback to create a team of strong brand ambassadors with excellent customer service via regular on floor visits and periodic engagement.

• Work on strategic vendor collaborations.
• Drive brand awareness and brand advocacy to exceed projected goals to include teaming up with partners to raise awareness across the regions.
• Ensure competent market analysis and insights to contribute towards business strategy
• Cross functional collaborations with Enterprise marketing, operations team to engage with existing clientele.
• Working with the Marketing team to plan out the retail marketing strategy and how to acquire new clients
• Developing Training content and conducting training workshops for teams followed by assessments.
• To provide leadership to all areas of the Academy so that it is able to deliver well rounded growth across all categories.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Should at least be a University Graduate (minimum education), with a Degree or Diploma or equivalent in any field/stream. Those with relevant education (degree/post-degree/professional/additional certification courses) shall be preferred.

• Post-graduates with a Business Management degree/course (MBA/PGDM/PGDBM/PGDBA and alike) shall be preferred but not compulsory.

Experience

• Should have at least 6-8 years of relevant experience in management and retail sales with proven track record or equivalent experience.