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:
* Manage the end-to-end delivery of retail store design and layouts for roll-out; for own retail and franchise
* Manage and deliver store design and concept development within brand standards and guidelines
* 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
* 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
* Manage various pilot and roll-out programs for Store Development
* Manage full overview of market concepts implementation; which store concept, typology, stratification level, where, why, cost
* Lead all store design phases according to brand concept guidelines; incl. internal planning team and external agencies
* Oversee holistic and functional store planning -FOH & BOH layout, façade design, and store interiors ‘look-and-feel’
* Ensure end to end process alignment with relevant internal and external stakeholders; including relevant sign-off
* Management and development of the store planning portal, to ensure project capacity and delays
* Managing and tracking of concept costs against capex budget and business KPIs
* Managing and tracking of all (new) development costs for fixtures/furniture and testing/prototyping
* Manage and drive multiple SD HUB conceptual and implementation projects within EU markets; deliver on time and on budget
* Build strong business relationship with SD managers in markets to gather and share updates, insights, feedback, and opportunites
* Develop and implement guidelines and tools for market implementation of concepts and commercial design tools
* 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:
* Commercial design focused
* Deep knowledge and experience in retail design
* Strong spacial planning understanding and vision
* Visualisation skills [2D & 3D]: Autocad, Sketch-up, Creative Cloud. IT Other: MS Office
* Furniture design, building design and construction knowledge
* Retail operations knowledge
* Strong organizational skills and flexibity; process-oriented
* Strong presentation skills with ability to convey ideas
* Ability to work independently as well as being a strong team player
* Ability to work cross functional
* Ability to respond to adhoc tasks
* Fluent in English, both written and spoken; additional language is an advantage
* Ability to travel
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
* University degree preferred in one of the following areas: Architecture, interior design, industrial design, or equivalent
* 5-8 years of relevant experience in retail and design; store development, store design, layout design
* Project management experience
* International retail/store development experience