Job Description

About Us

We pride ourselves as the best and largest vertically integrated, omni-channel women's fashion brand in the region. Founded in 2010, we have grown to 250 people strong, proudly headquartered in Singapore with country offices in Indonesia and Malaysia and an omni-channel presence across these 3 markets. In addition to our retail franchise in Cambodia, we ship internationally to 15 markets (Hong Kong, China, Philippines and Australia, New Zealand, US, Canada, Macau, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia & Brunei).

We are taking our definition of new female retail global, with our sights set on becoming the most thoughtful brand for the everyday woman.

The Team

The Love, Bonito team is a passionate, dynamic, innovative and fun-loving family. From fashion-lovers, savvy marketers to tech whizzes, we have a diverse team of talented individuals with one unified focus - our customer, the Love, Bonito woman. She is at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves in always taking an innovative, data-centric yet considerate approach in creating the right experiences, products and content for her. With big dreams and a grand mission, we’re looking for great like-minded people to join us - people who are as passionate, fearless and entrepreneurial.

If you’re looking for a dynamic, no corporate-BS environment to learn, grow, and really make an impact, we could be the perfect fit for you!

The Role

You will be at the front seat in delivering the best service and experience to our customers through retail and operations. For retail you will drive the business expansion while strategically opening stores whenever it is suitable and help shape the retail playbook delivering the best retail experience to our customers. In operations you will uphold the highest standard of excellence to be the best in class. You will be leading one of the biggest departments in Love, Bonito Indonesia. Your role entails being in-charge of the day-to-day decision making, retail financial success and strategic business expansion, you will shape a large contribution for the growth of the company in the next few years. You will be directly reporting to the Country Head and will work closely with the Retail HQ team in Singapore.

Business Development: Retail Strategic Expansion

• Create a strategic plan for LB retail expansion to address new customer and revenue growth opportunities head-on; includes planning and budget management, leveraging financial and smart calculated business decisions.
• Conduct market research and reach out to landlords for offers and negotiations.
• Constant innovation in balancing both sales and customer experience; making LB the most-wanted brand in town.
• Accountable to report to the local Management and Regional office for the retail performances and future growth plans.
• Maintain good relationships with external parties such as landlords, malls, department stores, contractors, etc.
• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring feasibility.
• Analyze store performance and feeding relevant and insightful information to other departments such as Merchandising, BI, and Marketing.
• Ability to propose and execute an opening or closing of stores/ counters depending on business needs and strategies.
• Rental negotiations and feasibility study for existing retail locations during contract renewals and/or crisis-management.

Retail Operations

• Lead the retail team which includes the area supervisors, store supervisors and sales associate; making clear JD & KPI for each team member and aiding them to achieve it.
• Hire and train team members to bring LB core values to life; Making sure all the retail team embodies the brand and its vision.
• Point out problematic areas and seek to constantly improve policies, operational procedure and internal processes.
• Store visits to spot training gaps, evaluate effectiveness of recent training and build strong relationships with store teams.
• Projects include: Initiatives for customer loyalty, marketing plan and projects related to leveraging current retail presence.
• Key person in liaising cross-department functions to ensure day-to-day operations.

Business Operations: Warehouse & Logistic

• Lead the Warehouse & Logistics team to be performance driven by defining their JD & KPI and aiding them to achieve it.
• Liaise with Warehouse Supervisor/ Executive on daily order fulfillment (both customers & stores), inbound & outbound of goods, coordinating the storage, etc.
• Point out problematic areas and seek to constantly improve policies, operational procedure and internal processes.
• Monitor inventory flow & distribution to ensure stock accuracy.
• Oversee and review performance of 3rd party logistics vendors.
• Liaise with the Merchandising Department to ensure best planning on inventory capacity management.
• Facilitate other department’s special projects by building reliable fulfillment SOP tailored to the projects.

Requirements

Requirements & Experiences :

• 5+ years of experience in retail and have had prior credentials as brand manager, retail manager, business development or related experience.
• BA/ BS degree in business, marketing, economics or other related fields.
• Detailed oriented, highly analytical and distinctly logical.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with high goals and KPIs by delivering quick results
• Great management and people-development skills.
• Effective communicator and an influential team player.

What You Should Be :

• Excellent leadership skills in growing a high-spirited team, leading various levels of staff/ team members.
• A passion in retail, fashion and customer experience.
• A people-centric mindset (both customers and employees) - always putting people at the center of everything!
• The magic balance between intuition, experience of what you know works, and research/data driven recommendations.
• Track record for developing complex customer-oriented operations and projects with cross-functional stakeholders.
• A fast learner, possesses excellent organizational, budgeting and project management skills.
• A self-starter, proactive and hands-on approach. Get it done right and fast!
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence teams and project stakeholders.
• Excellent time-management and analytical skills to ensure flawless execution of projects and solve problems which may arise.