Director, Travel Retail & Emerging Markets
Coach
London, LND, GB
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Job Title: Director – Travel Retail & Emerging Markets Europe, Middle East & India
Primary Purpose:
The Director will be accountable for the strategic and operational execution of developing, maintaining and accelerating the Travel Retail and Emerging Markets channels. They will be responsible for their P&L, LRP’s and operational efficiencies. They will also oversee the end-to-end process and cross-functional collaboration across Sales, Finance, Legal, Operations, Logistics, Buying & Marketing.
The role will have the following main areas of focus/responsibility:
- Own, lead and design the implementation of Coach’s Travel Retail strategy for the EMEAI region.
- Launch and ensure the long-term success of new Emerging Markets via a Franchise/Distributor model.
- Navigate and build processes for complex Markets including Duty Free and North Africa.
- Ensure new businesses, stores and doors are opened and are executed to brand standard.
- Accountability for the sales, profit and brand presence across the Travel Retail & Emerging Market channels.
- Maximise market share and new customer acquisition.
- Collaborate with key partners, service provider contacts and multiple functions across the business to build commercial plan and resources required to deliver and accelerate.
- Proactively highlight risks and opportunities and provide both support and challenge to business stakeholders.
- Working and negotiating with external partners and providers ensuring we can deliver profitable model/solutions where required.
- Partnering cross functionally to develop inventory strategies for each Travel Retail and Emerging Market account.
- Lead a small Sales team - ensuring opportunities are maximised in the immediate term and to support long-term growth across Tapestry’s brand portfolio.
- Partner with regional Wholesale Sales Managers and Directors to ensure consistency in assortment and brand representation across hybrid business models within EMEAI.
- Share and apply best practice and insight to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
The accomplished individual will possess...
- 5 years’ experience at a senior manager level.
- 7-10 years’ retail/wholesale experience within EMEAI.
- 2+ years’ experience working within a Travel Retail model.
- Multi-category experience across Franchise models.
- Multi-category experience in a planning environment.
- Numerate with strong analytical skills and financial acumen.
- Strategic thinker that is commercially driven with a focus on the bottom line.
- Ability to make prudent decisions under pressure and deadlines.
An outstanding professional will have...
- Deep knowledge and experience of the EMEAI region.
- Senior level position within a Global company/brand.
- Solve complex, challenging issues through fresh thinking and resourcefulness.
- Lead and build effective global partnerships.
- Identify resources to see initiatives through and continually assess the effectiveness and efficiency of work efforts.
- Excellent presentation skills to deliver key messages, confidently, to senior leadership partners.
Our Competencies for All Employees
- Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
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