Head of Retail to & Other Stories

Company Description
& Other Stories is a fashion brand offering women a wide range of shoes, bags, accessories, beauty and ready-to-wear to create their personal style, or story. Our creative ateliers in Paris, Stockholm and Los Angeles design diversified fashion collections with great attention to detail and quality. For us there’s no right or wrong when it comes to style, just possibilities and the joy of self-expression.
We’re currently around 2000 employees with online sales and stores in Europe, South Korea, the US and the Middle East – and we are growing.


Job Description
We’re looking for a Head of Retail to join our & Other Stories head office in Stockholm! As Head of Retail, you are the owner of the physical store sales channel and responsible to drive both strategic development, and daily operations to maximize our customer experience and deliver profitable growth. You will lead retail operations through the direct management of visual and store operations, and close collaboration with the global omni-sales functions. In addition, you will support the regions and area teams to achieve their customer-centric retail strategies through your functional experience and leadership. The role also includes for you to drive business innovation and business development in our retail channel and touchpoints, as well as optimizing and managing the retail channel both from a brand and a commercial perspective to ensure and enable outstanding growth and profitability short and long term.
What you’ll do
Drive the implementation and execution of the retail customer experience from start to end, from big leaps changes to daily operations
Hunt for and act on new opportunities to grow customers, sales and profit
Be a strong, value-driven leader that inspires, develops and challenges your team to achieve excellent results
Support areas to achieve their customer-centric goals and strategies
Use your operational knowledge to identify and act upon gaps and opportunities
Lead effectively in change to help build our future Retail experience



Qualifications
To be successful in the role as Head of Retail, we believe that you are strong in your communication, stakeholder & change management and that you have strong strategic abilities and can see the bigger picture. You are confident and have the ability to make quick decisions with the customer in focus, while setting the right priorities for the business, yourself and leading others into doing so. You can convey global strategies, understand the relevance in a local context and you have the analytical ability and experience from solving complex problems. In addition, you view feedback as a source of information and are humble in the light of success.
We’d love to meet someone who
Experience in managing and leading people and teams across regions and different geographies
Driving transformation and leading in change
Clearly demonstrates a customer-first mindset
Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the application of Store Operations best practices
Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the application of Visual Merchandising best practices



Additional Information
Other Stories’ essence
We are an inclusive workplace, driven by creativity, our values and an entrepreneurial spirit. Fashion, fun and action are essential parts of our daily work. We believe in being spontaneous, personal and flexible, which makes it easy to collaborate within all parts of the brand and sparks growth, for you and for us. At & Other Stories, we work in teams and lead by example and by building diverse teams we strive to create an open and safe environment for everyone. Each person working with & Other Stories is an essential part of our group of creatives and a valued individual within the company.
Join us
This is a full-time, on-site, permanent position located in Stockholm. Starting as soon as possible, according to agreement.
If you are interested register your CV (no need for cover letter) before the 19 of June. Due to GDPR we only accept applications through our career page.
Looking forward to hearing from you!