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Store Manager - Luxury Brand


Ref no: 0710BSMS - Posted May 18, 2011 at 16:30
Position: Store Manager
Location: Sydney, Australia
Description: This ‘rare and coveted’ position in the luxury fashion retail business involves managing a new iconic flagship. The store is large and showcases the brand’s world, including women’s, men’s and children’s wear, shoes, handbags, accessories, sportswear and many other categories. The space has been architecturally designed and has already become a ‘must’ on the shopping destination of both local and international shoppers.

The SM’s primary responsibilities will extend to a number of key areas. Sales and budget forecasting and monitoring will demand accountability for budget achievements on a weekly, monthly and annual basis. The SM will be required to put into place individual budgets for staff. In your daily staff meeting, issues such as sales discussions and client relationship shall be bought to attention. Further staff management responsibilities will extend to the recruiting and the training of staff in addition to providing support and clear compliance direction. The ideal candidate will ensure that all staff are presented appropriately at all times and that rosters are finalised before approval.

The SM must ensure that the store environment adheres to global store merchandising directives and the highest standard of cleanliness and organisation at all times in all areas. It will be of upmost importance that clients are treated with excellent manners, and in an appropriate way by the staff at all times. Your responsibility will further extend to increasing the data base of the store and training the staff how to approach and remain in contact with the clients. Regular sales reporting needs to be submitted on time and that adheres to company reporting requirements.

Inventory management duties will include ensuring that the flagship store and all departments have enough stock and replenishment of the correct products is being carried out, in addition any transferring of stock or stock issues are managed and reported on immediately. You will also be deeply involved with ongoing stocktakes, pre planning, actual stocktake and variance analysis.

The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years in retail management, this will be across multi-site management or very large footprint stores with high traffic flow. You will possess team management experience of at least 15 full time staff including the hiring, training and developing process. In addition you will have a proven high level of sales achievement and strong client relationship management skills.

It is necessary that the candidate has previously worked in operationally structured environment(s) and worked alongside a strong brand identity in the fashion/accessories space. You must be able to articulate how you represented the brand in this ambassador position excellently.

Only candidates with the relevant experience will be contacted.

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* Compulsory information
1 Your resume (and cover letter) must be a Word document (.doc or .docx) with a limit size of 2MB
Any issues please contact recruitment@moluxury.com.au.
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