Senior Manager, Franchise Excellence – adidas

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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