Corporate Director of Retail

Responsibilities

• Create a luxury, indulgent shopping experience at all new and existing retail spaces through lighting, color, sound, scent, and visual communication via visual displays and merchandising.
• Ensure artistic display of merchandise in new retail store set ups.
• Identify theatrical props, unique store fixtures and displays to create an experiential shopping experience.
• Stimulate customers’ perceptual and emotional responses that influence their purchasing behavior.
• Work in conjunction with the Corporate Director of Interior Design on all new retail and re-concept store designs to ensure proper layout of floor and wall displays.
• Maximize visual effects and exposure of retail merchandise to increase sales by square foot.
• Ensure integrity of each store layouts are documented and sustained via agreed planogram schematics per retail store.
• Directly involved in new retail store set ups, retail store re-imaginations, merchandise selection, and presentation.
• Collaborate with Buyers to review budgeted metrics including sales, stock plans and product flow to monitor and measure the performance of vendors and apparel lines.
• Attend major retail market shows and vendor presentations to understand market trends.
• Ensure the retail stores are current with new luxury, exclusive and unique products that represent each local market’s demographics and hotel customers.
• Review merchandise selection to leverage buying power while maintaining individuality of each property.
• Review and direct the tracking of inventory and pricing alignment to ensure consistency in cost of sales, maximization of turnover of merchandise and reduction of shrinkage.
• Review month end inventory and merchandising plans with the property finance and retail departments.
• Support annual operating budgets for retail - including revenue per occupied rooms, cost of goods, staffing and merchandise plans.
• Operational review to determine proper documentation and procedures on sales and inventory controls.
• Establish course correction.
• Develop best practice implementation and solutions for retail stores, properties and company.
• Assist with identifying and selecting property Directors of Retail.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of successful retail management experience of stores with annual sales in excess of $40 million and prior multiple unit leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability on how to develop retail concepts and/or store ideas.
• Proven ability to lead, direct, manage and develop high performing teams.
• Has demonstrated experience in developing, training and/or directing the proper merchandising standards for a retail store in an upscale environment.
• Should be able to create a block floor plan with appropriate adjacencies and focal points with an awareness of how best to feature vendors and products.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Able to clearly and concisely articulate a position and willing to compromise opinion for the benefit of consensus or concise direction.
• Demonstrate understanding of selling key performance indicators and how to drive improvement in sales results.
• High level of energy, personal accountability; passion for excellence which drives financial results.
• Must have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Retail Merchandising, Business Administration, Marketing, Fashion Merchandising, or a related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and 10+ years of progressive luxury retail leadership experience, including multi-unit oversight, merchandising strategy, and retail concept development, will be considered.

Benefits

• Omni Hotels & Resorts is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer.

Pay

• The pay range for this role is $80,000 - $120,000 annually.

Schedule

• The position is full-time with a flexible schedule.