Area Sales Manager - Footwear Retail Brand (7-9 yrs)

Area Sales Manager South (Footwear) for Retail Brand in Hyderabad

Job Scope (Responsibility):

- Develops and execute sales plans to meet revenue goals for our partnered stores through optimizing display merchandising, innovation launches, ad promotions and trade spend.

- Leads the strategic plan for business processes related to in-store implementation and execution across all store concepts.

- Develops and implements in-store programs designed around industry best practices to increase efficiency in operational and Brand excellence.

- Manages client relationships with franchise partners in the region.

- Interacts with Product and Marketing team to support marketing, promotional plans and e commerce where applicable.

- Also manages Mall Property operator and Vendor relationships.

- Identifying additional business opportunities in ROM region, identifying key cities & location for opening new stores.

- Develop & manage new retail partners in the region.

- Increase the brand footprint through both MBS.

- Ensure commercial hygiene with healthy AR management.

- Enhancing consumer experience at MBS.

- Strategic leader between the field organization and the retail back office.

- Ensures all corporate departments have knowledge of and understand Store Operations processes and policies related to interfacing with the field organization.

- Development and execution of reporting and analytics in the retail supply chain, including forecasting, product assortment, pricing strategies, sourcing, development and tracking.

- Current & future state system/POS Analysis.

- Plan, identify, communicate and delegate key responsibilities and practices to the store management team to ensure smooth flow of operations.

- Review store environments and key business indicators to identify problems, concerns and opportunities for improvement in order to provide coaching to the store management team to take action and achieve operational goals.

- Provide store managers and staff with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities and building effective teams.

Education/ Key Skills required:

- MBA in Sales & Marketing would be preferred.

- 7-9 years of Extensive retail work experience with International brand.

- Ability to work across multiple teams and cross functions.

- Good communication and presentation skills.

- Ability to conceptualize goals and objectives that conform to the company strategic plan.