As a Boutique Sales Manager, you will play a key role in the boutique's success by ensuring an exceptional client experience through meticulous planning, effective follow-up, and strong leadership. The Sales Manager is dedicated to unlocking the potential of each team member, fostering individual growth, and driving the overall success of the business. As a true ambassador of CHANEL style and brand image, the Sales Manager upholds its status as the ultimate benchmark in luxury.
Key Responsibilities
Managing a team of Fashion Advisors
- Ensure the teams proper understanding and deployment of the House's strategy.
- Coach the team to bring it to a high level of style expertise and client experience.
- Federate and motivate the team towards the achievement of commercial objectives via regular one-to-one follow-up meetings.
- Maximize the potential of the individual, define the priority actions of individual skills development, and monitor them while ensuring regular communication to the Deputy Manager on this topic.
- Managing the team in terms of leadership and in partnership with the Boutique Director performing performance appraisal, setting, and monitoring individual goals of sales team members
- Conduct and/or organize briefings to the team and animation of Morning Briefings
- Observing, interacting, and coaching the Team on the Floor to elevate the staff at the expected level of Style and Client experience.
- Identifying development areas of team members & proposing corresponding action plan, including training programs
- Encouraging team spirit, knowledge sharing and know-how.
Driving the business and managing an activity
- In collaboration with Boutique Director contribute to the development and implementation of the boutique overall business strategy
- Oversee the compliance with Boutique procedures and the Boutique Charter.
- Pro-actively propose suggestions for a better client experience and boutique operational efficiency.
- Manage and monitor sales of an activity to ensure strong progress towards the goal.
- Assist in buying of the collections for the boutique while respecting the budget, the guidelines and the one boutique one story.
- Perform quantitative analyses to make recommendations related to business and product strategy.
- Set up action plans aimed at developing business and performance of his activity.
- Make regular reports to the Boutique Management.
- Ensure the visibility of the product line in collaboration with Visual Merchandising.
- Optimize inventory management and follow sell-through and inventory objectives for his category.
Being an ambassador of the brand
- With clients ensure consistent delivery of client experience in line with the brand guidelines and participation in client events.
- Always embody the environmental and societal values of the House and acts as an ambassador of the house.
- Use Chanel Brand Image as a filter in decision making.
You are energized by:
You are results driven with excellent communication skills and strong leadership capabilities. Your solution-oriented and detail-oriented mindset, and your ability to adapt in an ever-changing environment will be key assets to succeed in this position.
What are we looking for?
Leadership and Management skills:
- Strategic thinker: Analytical and systemic, challenge the status quo, communicate the vision to inspire and engage.
- Relationships-focused: Collaborative, partnering and influencing skills.
- Ability to develop and empower people: Listening and empathy, feedback and coaching skills, performance management, delegation.
Managing Business skills:
- Strong client experience mindset.
- Able to understand and synthesize business and market intelligence.
- Problem solving and dispute resolution skills.
- Technology savvy and digital trend awareness.
- Fluent in English, - good written and verbal communications skills.
Soft skills:
- Posture and communication skills: Verbal and written communication, storytelling.
- Curious, personal agility, continuous learner.
- Self-awareness, self-confidence, and self-control/stress management.
- Enthusiasm, energy, and motivation.
- Open to diversity and cultural differences.
- Appreciation for art, luxury, and beauty.
- Trustworthy with integrity/ethics.
What We Do
CHANEL is a private company and a world leader in creating, developing, manufacturing and distributing luxury products.
Founded by Gabrielle Chanel at the beginning of the last century, CHANEL offers a broad range of high-end creations, including Ready-to-Wear, Leather Goods, Fashion Accessories, Eyewear, Fragrances, Makeup, Skincare, Jewelry and Watches. CHANEL is also renowned for its Haute Couture collections, presented twice yearly in Paris, and for having acquired a large number of specialized suppliers, collectively known as the Métiers d’Art. CHANEL is dedicated to ultimate luxury and to the highest level of craftsmanship.
It is a brand whose core values remain historically grounded on exceptional creation. As such, CHANEL promotes culture, art, creativity and “savoir-faire” throughout the world, and invests significantly in people, R&D and innovation.
At the end of 2019, CHANEL employed more than 28,000 people across the world.