Store Manager

Job title: Store Manager

About the Role To provide leadership for the store, setting an excellent standard for the store and inspiring the team to achieve it. To own the employee experience, driving employee satisfaction and elevating team behaviours. To own the customer experience, driving customer satisfaction and increasing brand loyalty. To drive performance and growth, through excellent operational and commercial execution.

What You'll Do

• Establish a constant focus on Brand, continually driving engagement, knowledge and passion for the Brand across the store team
• Be on the shop floor, acting as a brand ambassador and role modelling Burberry behaviours
• Monitor, coach and provide feedback to the store team to deliver excellent customer experience
• Maintain a luxury environment, ensuring excellent execution and maintenance of Visual Merchandising guidelines across the store
• Drive the use of digital assets to enhance the customer experience
• Retain and develop talent; lead, inspire and manage a high performing, positive store team
• Continually elevate the capability of the store team through recruitment, staff development, mobility and effective succession planning
• Establish a learning culture and maintain a strong connection of the store team to the Brand
• Have excellent product knowledge and drive the same standard across the store team
• Maintain a strong understanding of product sales performance and optimise sales of the available inventory
• Nurture customer relationships; establish and embed customer focused behaviours across the store team
• Build and cultivate long term customer relationships and lead the team to do the same
• Drive store performance and productivity; build and maintain familiarity with the local external environment
• Maintain a commercial mindset and continually identify and convert opportunities to drive store performance
• Drive operational excellence across all areas of the store; ensure compliance with all corporate standards, policies and initiatives including Health and Safety
• Ensure your store has a written plan in place for emergency evacuation, to be practiced annually and recorded on Rivo as completed

What We're Looking For

• Demonstrated alignment with Burberry Store Management behaviours: Service Focused; Leading to Inspire; Commercially Aware; Developing Talent; Driving Excellence
• Local language plus English; a passion for fashion and a luxury ethos
• Digital awareness with ability to navigate social media and e-commerce sites
• Awareness of local employment and retail legislation
• Flexible to work as required to meet store needs
• Experience in a luxury brand or luxury service and selling environment
• Retail Management experience appropriate to the role; metrics include sales turnover/volume and number/types of roles previously managed