PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
This role supports the Store Development commercial HUB team, which is responsible for maximizing the profitability of our European Own Retail & Franchise store portfolio by ensuring commercial excellence through retail store design and concept development/planning.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Manage the end-to-end delivery of retail store design and layouts for roll-out; for own retail and franchise
2. Manage and deliver store design and concept development within brand standards and guidelines
3. Ensure concepts meet market and customer needs. This includes the creation of future developments and refinements of existing concepts from a commercial retail designer point of view
4. Responsible for leading and coordinating the flow of related information between internal and external stakeholders, to ensure that all projects are optimized to their maximum potential
5. Manage various pilot and roll-out programs for Store Development
6. Manage full overview of market concepts implementation; which store concept, typology, stratification level, where, why, cost
7. Lead all store design phases according to brand concept guidelines; incl. internal planning team and external agencies
8. Oversee holistic and functional store planning -FOH & BOH layout, façade design, and store interiors ‘look-and-feel’
9. Ensure end to end process alignment with relevant internal and external stakeholders; including relevant sign-off
10. Management and development of the store planning portal, to ensure project capacity and delays
11. Managing and tracking of concept costs against capex budget and business KPIs
12. Managing and tracking of all (new) development costs for fixtures/furniture and testing/prototyping
13. Manage and drive multiple SD HUB conceptual and implementation projects within EU markets; deliver on time and on budget
14. Build strong business relationship with SD managers in markets to gather and share updates, insights, feedback, and opportunites
15. Develop and implement guidelines and tools for market implementation of concepts and commercial design tools
16. Leverage functional knowledge to improve design efficiency and actively drive process improvements to ensure speed to market; self-initiate assignments with emphasis on commercial design improvements
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
17. Commercial design focused
18. Deep knowledge and experience in retail design
19. Strong spacial planning understanding and vision
20. Visualisation skills [2D & 3D]: Autocad, Sketch-up, Creative Cloud. IT Other: MS Office
21. Furniture design, building design and construction knowledge
22. Retail operations knowledge
23. Strong organizational skills and flexibity; process-oriented
24. Strong presentation skills with ability to convey ideas
25. Ability to work independently as well as being a strong team player
26. Ability to work cross functional
27. Ability to respond to adhoc tasks
28. Fluent in English, both written and spoken; additional language is an advantage
29. Ability to travel
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
30. University degree preferred in one of the following areas: Architecture, interior design, industrial design, or equivalent
31. 5-8 years of relevant experience in retail and design; store development, store design, layout design
32. Project management experience
33. International retail/store development experience