Senior Manager Retail Design Experience

Senior Manager Retail Design Experience

Location: Shanghai (China)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

This role is to

Drive the C4C concept creation and implementation of retail design concepts and solutions for GCA through Flagship Stores and the Pilots in VM/ISC - ensuring locally relevant design solutions that are also on-brand - bringing global retail creative direction to life for GCA

Develop retail design concepts and solutions that create brand desire for Chinese consumers and set world-class standards for the image of the adidas brand in GCA, and enable GCA to successfully implement the global vision through experience touch points

Inspire a winning culture and drive operational excellence through Retail design experience team, and collaboration with the HQ teams and other markets

Interact the Global development & landing of Global new concepts and the optimization of all consumer touchpoints to elevate consumer impact in GCA.

Promote instore communication as a profit center contributor.

Key Responsibilities:

Drive the C4C (China for China) concept design development in VM/ISC

Develop VM/ISC manuals and tools for GCA to implement the concepts.

Drive the cascade of global VM & ISC guideline to GCA VM & ISC teams across mid/long term tools

Drive compliance of local executions in GCA in line with global guidelines across VM & ISC as well as seasonal campaigns

Orchestrate and gather input on current and future retail concepts and formats, digital and physical experiences, VM/ISC and other experience topics based on local customer/consumer and channel distribution needs

Become the Market communication counterpart for the Global HQ VM/ISC team

Validate global deliverables on current and future key store concepts, VM/ISC and Consumer Experience elements are in line with China input

Drive strong partnership with local execution team ensuring brand look and feel lands correctly in key stores across China

Interact VM/ISC execution across channels and formats according to concept guidelines

Drive the design review & approval process cross key stakeholders for flagship stores/ new concept pilots, as well as manage the approval process with Senior Leadership Team if required

Continue to optimize & develop a stronger creative design vendor pool with NTP, ensuring high quality of delivery to the China market

Establish and maintain process driven and solution-oriented communication with key stake holders

Takes ownership for Talent Management processes to grow, develop himself/herself and closely touch base with line manager in order to retain talents

Promote a high-performance culture by aligning clear expectations and individual goals with line manager

Translate the company goals into specific actions and business plans. Self-control and take care of self-performance and results

Additional projects as agreed

Financial

Be responsible on design execution cost review and managing cost efficiency for Flagship/ pilot stores of GCA

Key Relationships:

Global Retail Concept teams

Omni Chanel Marketing teams

Global Merchandising teams

Business Units

China Brand Activation

China Business Units

China Store Design & Construction

China Finance

China Procurement

China Ominichannel

China Retail Expansion

HK & TW counterpart

Key Relationships outside adidas:

Government Authorities

Landloards

Agencies

Vendors, Supplies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Deep knowledge in retail Visual Merchandising, combing theoretical with practical experience.

Proven track record in new store environment / concept creation and development

Strong organisation skills and flexibility.

Specialist in technical skills.

Proven track record in project management.

English fluent: verbal, written & spoken. Another European language is an advantage.

IT: Microsoft Office advanced. iShopShape is an advantage.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

Business or Marketing Degree.

6-10 years’ experience in retail visual merchandising including fashion retailing.

2+ years working with Global markets or 1+ years working in a top tier adidas market.

2+ year’s management experience.