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