Senior Manager, Franchise Excellence – adidas

August 30, 2016

Location: Dubai

Closing Date: 26th September

Overview:

To ensure the development, pills facilitation and successful implementation of the Franchise Business model and secure continuous improvement of Franchise performance for all type of accounts. Ensure a seamless customer mono-branded experience through the sharing of the latest tools, information, training and proactive follow-up.

Key Responsibilities:

  • – Meeting and exceeding agreed KPI targets for net sales and profitability.
  • – Facilitate implementation of key global initiatives across franchise partners.
  • – Coordination and implementation of franchise business model and strategies including planning, preparation and milestone tracking.
  • – Driving the franchise projects hand in hand with franchise director and franchise sales teams across the assigned markets.
  • – Consolidation of sell out data and proposing improvement initiatives along with franchise manager targeting market/customer specific opportunities.
  • – Leverage cross functional collaboration to facilitate the development of franchisee channel via premium presentation, consumer service excellence and insight driven decision making.
  • – Facilitate the transitioning of franchise partners and managers through change initiatives and programs.
  • – Sharing of best practice from retail into franchise and within franchise across the markets assigned.
  • – Coordination with the Real estate team for the roll out and BPM process for franchise door sign offs.
  • – Support the franchise buying team during the preparation and planning of  seasonal buy and store roll out .

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • – Advanced knowledge of Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
  • – Proven project management experience.
  • – Fluent in English.
  • – Arabic is an advantage.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

  • – University degree in business with Sales / Retail focus.
  • – Advanced level understanding of retail operations. Logistics/merchandising/finance exposure desired.
  • – 4-5  years Franchise and/or Retail experience, ideally in apparel/fashion/shoes or FMCG.
  • – > 2 years leadership experience.
  • – Exposure to sports retail / franchise desired.
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