Offline Retail Lead - Apparel/Footwear Business

Role & Responsibilities:

- Owning offline/retail P&L

- Identifying potential locations for expansion following the company's expansion strategy

- Liaising with various agencies in the space search

- Carrying out a detailed feasibility study on chosen locations

- Negotiation with the malls/agencies and finalization of related documents & pricing.

- Creating & implementing the organization chart for the offline/retail function

- Collaboration with the Marketing team and VM for In-store marketing/promotions and for external ATL/BTL activities

- Generates ideas about future retail activities to ensure a cutting-edge strategy; maintains up-to-date knowledge of the marketplace, competitors, and trends

- Takes a lead role in building a strong sales management culture with the operations team; spends time coaching store managers, identifying skills and opportunities for development; provides advice and guidance on Store manager issues when needed.

- Maintains and constantly develops innovative and cost-effective stock generation; monitors stock weekly to achieve bottom-line sales budget against monthly targets

- Implementation of ERP and other Technology resources for effective Business Decision Making

Expected skill sets:

- Experience of 12 -14 years with established brand(s) in the Lifestyle Retail category.

- Critical experience in Sales and/or Retail Operations is a must

- Should have worked across the key retail formats viz EBO, LFS, and MBO.

- Experienced in managing relationships at a senior level and managing a diverse (in terms of skill base and experience) team of people.

- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to c

- ontribute and successfully deliver against a business strategy.

- Excellent communication skills - verbal, written to include report writing and group presentations

- Commercially sound with a good understanding of profit and loss accounting and the influence of operating factors e.g. volume v price

- Excellent organization skills, able to prioritize

- A collaborative team player concerned with the team's success as well as individual performance

Why join us?

We are a young and dynamic team, so you will get to make a significant impact, learn a lot, and have fun in the process. We are building our team as well, so this is a great opportunity to quickly climb up the ladder and become among the top D2C experts in India.

We are a funded, capital-efficient business, with best-in-class D2C founders as our investors. We are rapidly growing, so you get to be a part of the hyper-growth phase and quickly grow with us.

Job Details:

- Work timings: Mon to Sat, Work from Office role

- Office location: Mumbai

- CTC: As per market standard

- Reporting: To founder