Coty is a world leader in beauty and home to an illustrious roster of cosmetic, skincare and fragrance brands. And our company has a mission: to challenge the definition of beauty, to encourage authenticity and celebrate diversity. Because to us at Coty, beauty isn\xe2\x80\x99t about conforming to somebody else\xe2\x80\x99s ideal. It\xe2\x80\x99s about inclusion and liberating everyone to shine in their unique way.

THE ROLE
About the role
The retail excellence manager is responsible for ensuring and enhancing our productivity across all channels within the SG luxury division team, Support and execute promotional activities and maintaining permanent brand exposure. You will support and the Commercial excellence managers in the execution and maintenance of all in store animations and the daily operations of the Free-standing stores. You will oversee, support and manage the productivity of the Beauty Advisors team force.

You are to spearhead the retail excellence strategies and ensure that the SG luxury team is performing up to plan

RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensure day-day store operations guideline is met
Drive productivity within the Beauty Advisor / makeup specialists\xe2\x80\x99 team and provide feedback on gaps vs plan.
Drive retail excellence mentality in the free-standing stores and Departmental stores.
Work closely with Commercial and Marketing teams to execute animations in our Free-standing stores, Departmental stores and Sephora.
Implement and monitor the effectiveness of the promotional programs. Provide post analysis to the wider team
Encourage and motivate retailers\xe2\x80\x99 sales staff to execute these plans and meet sales objectives
Ensure that merchandising, assortment, planograms are implemented according to company/brand guidelines
Optimization of use of testers, POS materials, GWP\xe2\x80\x99s and promo visuals
Establish clear action plan for retail sales development including obtaining market / competitors information.
Obtain, compile and analyze regular sell-out data for optimization of retail strategy (assortment definition, merchandising, BA support\xe2\x80\xa6)
Build and maintain close relationship with retailers\xe2\x80\x99 store management teams to strengthen COTY\xe2\x80\x99s position.
Submit proposals on incentives, trainings, objectives for the staff (BAs) in coordination with the Commercial promo plans
Responsible for the hiring and development of retail staffs, provides feedback on package competitiveness.
Ensure optimized coverage of staff support according to existing team and identify needs and potential uplift
Annual budget preparation \xe2\x80\x93 BA costs / Commissioning and all other expenses related to BA\xe2\x80\x99s

REQUIREMENTS
Min. 5 to 7 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in sales and/or retail operations
Excellent written and spoken communication.
Strong sense in numbers (Sales)
Organized and quick to respond
Good communication and relationship-building abilities.
Interest in managing people and ability to influence in a positive manner
Ability to work in a multinational environment and in a fast paced and changing product category experience is a plus.
Excellent in Microsoft office (Excel / PowerPoint) / SAP.