Head of Retail at Alister Greene Consulting

Job Purpose:
To contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of a business strategy that maximises the retail net profit by driving sales and controlling costs at regional level; to build motivated and high performing teams through the effective leadership and line management to retail staff.

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Works with the Managing Director and other Heads of Function to influence the creation and communication of company strategy, business priorities and targets for the shops and ensure there are systems in place to enable the shop managers to receive the information in a timely manner.
• Generates ideas about future retail activities to ensure a cutting edge strategy; maintains up to date knowledge of the market place, competitors and trends
• Takes decisions on matters relating to the day to day retail operation within their defined work area including the strategic planning of resources
• Ensures that the retail operation complies to all policies and procedures relating to Security, Health and Safety; influences any changes necessary to meet statutory requirements, ensuring minimum risk to staff members and the business.
• Ensures all shops meet the required return on sales prior to submitting any recommendations to the Managing Director; all shop locations must be visited to ensure they will trade effectively and meet the proposed budgets.
• Spends time in shops with retail shop teams and customers to understand and identify business critical issues in order to ensure the alignment of tactics and strategies; maintains the corporate identity of Mind in all shops and related initiatives.

SKILLS

• .Excellent organization skills,
• Ability to prioritize
• A collaborative team player
• Concerned with the team success as well as individual performance
• Visible Leadership skill.

REQUIREMENTS

• BSC / HND/ in a related field of study. Masters would be of great advantage.
• Candidate preferably female should be between 30 and 35 years of age
• At least 3 years’ experience working in such capacity in a reputable organization.
• Candidate must reside in Lagos but be willing to travel outside Lagos.