Our client, a global leading telecommunication company, is recruiting for a Store Manager to join their business in Germany. Position Title Store Manager Position Type Permanent Start Date ASAP Location Berlin, Germany Contact: Jo Tianchang Li | +49 (0) 89 23 88 98 42 Responsibilities: Retail Insight Capability: Monitor retail trends and developments in the electronics/3C industry, analyse consumer behavior changes in business districts and cities, and formulate store strategies by studying competitors, communities, and business models. Store Operation Result: Responsible for store operation result, customer-centric, improve service quality and customer experience consistently, develop brand influence on business area, improve sales performance, achieve certain goals. Store Operation Management: Responsible for store operation management structure build up and fully execution. Identify and review process absence and deficiency. Coordinate with HQ resources (including IT) to fulfill reasonable optimisation. Act as an experimental hub to try on and promote new ideas. Store Activity Management: Responsible for store commercial activity planning and execution. Ensure commercial activity quality and execution. Ensure brand communication value. Store Team Management: Based on store operations to plan personnel investment, responsible for people recruitment and talent development, participate to build and practice assessment and evaluation system, effectively identify talent, realise timely incentives, and continuously nurture talents for global self-operating HFS system. Store Brand Image Management: Implement client's high-end marketing philosophy, improve the influence of client's self-operated HFS system in consumers' minds. Store Risk Management: Make sure store property, store cash, store staff and customer safety. Store Promotion Business Activity Management: e.g. Product pricing strategy, promotion activity design, etc Key Business action: Service and Goods Flow Management: Implement the high standards of Client brand, lead the team to provide the best service experience. Comprehensively analyse the local business environment, brand marketing strategy and store status at the HQ, specify the inventory plan, ensure the goods circulation and operation throughout their life cycle. Operation optimisation and promotion: Based on actual operation status and local resources, develop mid and long-term store development plans. Implement the store operation standardisation process, based on market requirements to liaise with HQ resources, Continuously optimise and promote full operation system. Activity Management: Participate in the planning of HQ marketing activities, effectively implement in-store marketing, flexible allocate manpower and materials, provide consumers with excellent activity experience. Personnel management: Building the self-operated training system, optimising the personnel development plan/evaluation system/incentive solution, etc. Nurture and export talents for the global self-operating HFS retail stores. Brand communication: Learn about the local business district environment, streamline local market resources, from the consumer perspective, optimise the store environment and service experience, to improve brand communication and influence on specific business areas. Basic skills requirement: Turnover Management Capability: Gain insights into the business environment and market dynamics, propose and implement suggestions on store activities. Store Management Capability: Standardised operation, optimise service experience, maintain store image, identify issues in a timely manner, control the results of the mall. Offering and Inventory Management Capability: Grasp the whole range of commodities, adjust and control inventory requirement, ensure reasonable inventory turnover, develop relevant local measures to effectively reduce field losses Team Management Capability: Properly divide work, integrate team capabilities, improve store operations, be good at communication, identify and cultivate talent. Language: Germany, English Core Skills Requirement: Capacity to Develop Long-Term Strategic Plans: Analysis based on business environment and store, positioning store development vision, formulate long-term development plans. Build Process System Capabilities: Improve the operation process system, identify gaps and weaknesses, establish new operation system standards. Insist on Innovation and Transformation: Summarise and review based on store experience, promote store operation innovation and reform, build a superb service experience. Cross-Department Communication and Collaboration: Maintain good collaboration relationships with HQ departments, effectively promote business modules progress, improve different modules of HFS store image, operation process and service experience. Experience in managing direct-sale retail of well-known brands, experience in store construction or project transformation and innovation 2. Strong business awareness and sensitivity to the retail industry dynamics. For more details contact: sales(at)manningglobal.com Quoting reference: DE_MGJT_SM_ Or call Jo on: +49 (0) 89 23 88 98 42 View our latest jobs: Follow us on twitter: #manningglobal If you know of anyone within your network who may also be interested in this position, would you please forward this ‘Email & Role’ to them. 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