Assistant Manager - Network Planning - Store Expansion

Mission: Help identify and create new store opportunities for growth

Should have project management experience

Key responsibilities:

- Build on network planning model to support store expansion plan:

Determine pockets of demand where new stores can be opened

Estimate top-line performance of new stores (number of transactions; average ticket size)

Track, renew and prioritize list of new store opportunities

- Identify TG consumer by store type, drivers for consumers, insights, segmentation and intelligence

Acquire, clean and manipulate data from various sources to help drive network planning objectives

Conduct on-ground studies to understand consumer behaviour and predict store performance better

Use data to identify new lines of new store opportunities

- Build intelligence and best practices from competition, industry (QSR, Retail), other SBX markets

Supporting responsibilities:

- Support annual planning processes by generating store pipeline and vetting with internal stakeholders

- Manage external data vendors and consulting agencies to ensure data needs are met

Required skill-set:

- Strong quantitative skills - ability to manipulate data well to arrive at desired outcomes

- Basic statistics (including basic regression, basic curve fitting, basic sampling statistics) - ability to review large amounts of data and quickly identify themes, patterns, flaws and anomalies

- High degree of comfort with MS Excel

- Good understanding of basic finance

- Previous experience in retail not required, but will be an advantage