Store Manager - adidas

Management – Store (Retail & Consumer Products)

Full time

Are you looking for the next opportunity to kickstart your career with a Global organization?
Do you love a working environment that is fast-paced?
Do you have a passion for sport?
Have you had leadership experience?
Answered YES – then we are looking for you!

Join our team as a STORE MANAGER

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Commercial Success:

• Lead, manage and direct leadership team to deliver sales, profits and brand standards.
• Demonstrates ownership of store performance by monitoring the allocation of resources and organizes processes to drive profitability in a variety of situations and market conditions.
• Utilizes all available store and market data to make commercial decisions based on sound analysis and financial judgment.

Brand Standards:

• Positively communicates and actively demonstrates the Brand Values and Pacific\’s Retail Mission.
• Manages an effective, efficient, and stable retail environment, ensuring all adidas policies, procedures, initiatives and strategies are consistently implemented.
• Ensures store team compliance and drives continuous improvement with all store operational policies and procedures.
• Deliver specific reporting required by Senior Manager or Retail Back Office.

Self-Learning and Talent Management:

• Positively influences all business stakeholders by offering suggestions and ideas on ways to improve operations and processes.
• Lead the store HR planning, recruitment, onboarding, training, and development initiatives while actively developing succession plans and ensuring all HR policies and procedures are adhered to.

Service and Selling Culture:

• Supports and coaches store management team to understand ability to increase store profitability by adhering to operational best practices, driving AREA, and creating a leading shopping experience for the consumer.
• Understands the behavior and patterns of own stores consumer base, draws conclusions from this and coaches store management team to exceed consumer expectations.
• Creates and drives a service culture by ensuring all activities are focused on the consumer.
• Creates and implements strategic plans to deliver seasonal Brand and product training and ensures knowledge is transferred into selling skills.
• Creates a performance culture by setting clear expectations and targets, analyzing store performance, and holding store team accountable by giving appropriate and prompt feedback, including actively managing poor performance.
• Coaches, motivates, and inspires store management team to set and accomplish store goals and maximize their individual performance.
• Leads service by example and ensures highly visible and effective consumer service management always.
• Actively collaborates and shares best practices with peers to support and drive retail performance.
• Communicates a desire to learn and seizes all available opportunities to drive own development and increase performance.
• Supports District Manager in functional tasks, such as training, operational support, projects.
• Acts as a mentor to Store Managers within their District, with a focus on succession planning and coaching.
• Supports the DM with recruitment across the district, finding talent and onboarding new starters.
• Assists the District Manager in analyzing compliance-related checklists and action plans.
• Provides support, guidance, and leadership to Store Managers on issues including Customer Service, Sales Performance, Staffing and Expense Management.

Knowledge, Capabilities and Experience:

• English spoken and written.
• 5 years’ flagship/A grade store experience.
• Must possess and consistently exhibit the competencies relative to the position.
• Excellent skills in operating personal computers, POS systems, and various software packages including MS Office.
• Knowledge and understanding of profit and loss statement and store KPIs to make commercial decisions based on sound financial judgment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to lead discussions in diverse groups of varying size.
• Excellent time management and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to use good judgment and make strong independent decisions.
• Demonstrates an inspirational attitude that contributes to a positive team environment.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with team members along with a willingness to set and maintain high standards of performance.
• Well-developed ability to speak, read, comprehend, and write English.

Key Relationships:

• Omnichannel
• HR (Training, Talent Development, Benefits, Recruitment)
• Loss Prevention

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong leadership skills, with a minimum of 4 years’ experience of leading retail teams.
• Good communication skills including impactful presentation skills, influencing, negotiating, and change management.
• Good numeracy and literacy, with good IT skills (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Fluency in English and local language of Market HQ.

Requisite Education and Experience/Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in the retail and trade marketing industry, ideally in apparel/fashion/shoes or FMCG, with an operational background and working across different countries.

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