Business Manager

2 weeks ago

Cambridge Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom HERMÈS Full time

General Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Business Manager to head up our Fragrance and Beauty Counter in John Lewis Cambridge for an initial Fixed Term Period.

The main purpose of the role is:

  • To deliver the retail sales targets, and KPIs set out through strong leadership, leading by your own example, motivating your store team to promote Hermès, implementing local service initiatives and marketing activity to engage customers and building a healthy customer data base.
  • To build and maintain strong relationships with store management and partner retail colleagues to gain support, establish opportunities and achieve targets in line with company expectations.
  • To act as a brand ambassador demonstrating the Hermès pillars of expertise, generosity, simplicity, surprise and bespoke. Ensuring effective communication, behaviour and actions both internally and externally.
Main responsibilities

MAIN RESONSIBILITIES

  • Exceptional personal and team service levels, reflecting the company guidelines and a bespoke approach. Pro-active to feedback from the service excellence programme, acknowledging team success, addressing challenges and creating a clear plan of action to improve results.
  • Prepare, implement, and monitor quarterly business plans in line with retail targets, marketing calendars and launches, including specific targets and activations for key launches.
  • Operational processes, housekeeping and visual merchandising standards to be best in class, reflecting their importance as part of the customer experience.
  • Ensure delivery of retail sales targets and KPIs, coaching and developing the team through individual development plans, and providing consistent informal and formal feedback through daily conversations, team briefs, 1-2-1s, monthly catch ups and annual appraisals. Delivering strong productivity by headcount, team job satisfaction and tangible growth.
  • Effective, collaborative management of staff from partner agencies and monitoring of instore sales performance. Identify top performers and maintain strong relationships, ensuring a strong talent pool to support key trading periods.
  • Respect business budgets for staffing, overtime, POSM supplies, expenses and other expenditure linked to your account or team, ensuring accurate records and management, and review alongside the Head of Retail.
Profile

  • Experience in managing beauty consultant and teams.
  • Ability to lead and develop effective, strong performing teams.
  • Results driven and commercially articulate, delivering strong reports which reflect KPIs, productivity, trading conditions, demographic of customers, anecdotal feedback, retail activations, customer recruitment and business building initiatives.
  • Ability to be both proactive and reactive as required, with an agile mindset.
  • Proven negotiation and influencing skills to gain support from partner retailers and team in delivering business plans and objectives.
  • Makeup and fragrance training preferred.
  • Strong communication skills - in person, digitally and remotely. Ability to define targets and goals with your team, articulate them and review performance with your team.
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to flex to the changing business and market needs, with a positive and progressive approach.
  • Competent IT skills (Outlook and MS Office)
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