Market Leader, South Boutiques

Based in Miami, the Market Leader, South Boutiques will oversee approximately twelve stores in Florida / Southeast region and will drive business results for all locations. As a Lacoste Market Leader, you enjoy the challenges of developing individuals, building teams, and driving performance and growth across Lacoste Boutiques. You demonstrate successful leadership ability with a focus on excellence and consistent execution of Lacoste strategies. Even when you’re not present, you maintain a constant influence in every location — articulating the Lacoste Brand vision to inspire and make a daily impact on your management teams and associates.

 Essential Job Responsibilities:

·         Drive sales and customer experience in your region, meeting targets and budgets.

·         Oversee the recruiting and training in your market, build a respected leadership team.

·         Inspire and lead teams to deliver in-store experiences that build customer and brand loyalty. 

·         Provide training, coaching and feedback to Managers and store teams. Effectively communicate sales and customer service programs.

·         Know what is happening in your local market (trends, competition, customers, local events, etc.), provide insights, actions and execute local strategies.

·         Analyze key metrics and KPI’s to make business decisions.

·         Control operational expenses including, but not limited to, payroll, and scheduled hours.

·         Ensure that visual directives are executed.

·         Ensure the protection of store assets and inventory.

·         Work and communicate with corporate partners to effectively articulate needs of the market.

·         Oversee the setup and execution of the retail shop at the annual Miami Open Tennis tournament. 

Requirements/Qualifications:

·         5+ years of multi-store supervisory experience and 5+ years of store management experience in the apparel industry. Experience overseeing premium retail stores is a must. Experience overseeing Florida stores highly preferred.

·         Must be a self-starter, with ability to effectively manage and prioritize one’s workload. Must be able to proactively take on initiatives with sometimes limited direction.

·         Position must reside in the Miami area. Must be able to travel to all locations in your market on a regular basis to monitor performance, provide support and training.

·         Strong leadership and training skills required. Must be able to communicate Lacoste policies and procedures in a clear and concise way.

·         Solid business acumen with experience making hard and fast decisions to drive success.

·         Ability to communicate fluently in Spanish is a major plus.

Core Values and Traits:

 Play as One Team:

• Showing respect towards everyone
• Commitment for the team’s work and decisions

Play with Elegance:

• Striving for excellence
• Treating others with fair play and humility

Play by Daring:

• Having the courage to speak up, experiment and take initiative
• To explore new opportunities

Play with Tenacity:

• Constantly seek continuous improvement
• Learning from our failures

At Lacoste, we’re committed to building the best team we can. We hire for potential and support every team member through each step of their career development. Building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive space for our team to think differently and push the status quo is incredibly important to us; and we strive to use these guiding principles as the foundation for how we interact with each other, how we build our business, and how we hold ourselves accountable to our core values.

* This job description is not intended to be exhaustive.  They can be changed orally or in writing at any time by the discretion of management.  We as Lacoste associates must also always ensure that all functions of our position are represented with our core values.

Based in Miami, the Market Leader, South Boutiques will oversee approximately twelve stores in Florida / Southeast region and will drive business results for all locations. As a Lacoste Market Leader, you enjoy the challenges of developing individuals, building teams, and driving performance and growth across Lacoste Boutiques. You demonstrate successful leadership ability with a focus on excellence and consistent execution of Lacoste strategies. Even when you’re not present, you maintain a constant influence in every location — articulating the Lacoste Brand vision to inspire and make a daily impact on your management teams and associates.

 Essential Job Responsibilities:

·         Drive sales and customer experience in your region, meeting targets and budgets.

·         Oversee the recruiting and training in your market, build a respected leadership team.

·         Inspire and lead teams to deliver in-store experiences that build customer and brand loyalty. 

·         Provide training, coaching and feedback to Managers and store teams. Effectively communicate sales and customer service programs.

·         Know what is happening in your local market (trends, competition, customers, local events, etc.), provide insights, actions and execute local strategies.

·         Analyze key metrics and KPI’s to make business decisions.

·         Control operational expenses including, but not limited to, payroll, and scheduled hours.

·         Ensure that visual directives are executed.

·         Ensure the protection of store assets and inventory.

·         Work and communicate with corporate partners to effectively articulate needs of the market.

·         Oversee the setup and execution of the retail shop at the annual Miami Open Tennis tournament. 

Requirements/Qualifications:

·         5+ years of multi-store supervisory experience and 5+ years of store management experience in the apparel industry. Experience overseeing premium retail stores is a must. Experience overseeing Florida stores highly preferred.

·         Must be a self-starter, with ability to effectively manage and prioritize one’s workload. Must be able to proactively take on initiatives with sometimes limited direction.

·         Position must reside in the Miami area. Must be able to travel to all locations in your market on a regular basis to monitor performance, provide support and training.

·         Strong leadership and training skills required. Must be able to communicate Lacoste policies and procedures in a clear and concise way.

·         Solid business acumen with experience making hard and fast decisions to drive success.

·         Ability to communicate fluently in Spanish is a major plus.

Core Values and Traits:

 Play as One Team:

• Showing respect towards everyone
• Commitment for the team’s work and decisions

Play with Elegance:

• Striving for excellence
• Treating others with fair play and humility

Play by Daring:

• Having the courage to speak up, experiment and take initiative
• To explore new opportunities

Play with Tenacity:

• Constantly seek continuous improvement
• Learning from our failures

At Lacoste, we’re committed to building the best team we can. We hire for potential and support every team member through each step of their career development. Building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive space for our team to think differently and push the status quo is incredibly important to us; and we strive to use these guiding principles as the foundation for how we interact with each other, how we build our business, and how we hold ourselves accountable to our core values.

* This job description is not intended to be exhaustive.  They can be changed orally or in writing at any time by the discretion of management.  We as Lacoste associates must also always ensure that all functions of our position are represented with our core values.