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Columbia Sportswear Company
Retail Area Manager (ECI)
FULL TIME
October 7, 2024
ABOUT THE POSITION
- Lead Your Team: Manage a team of 3 ECI Area Coordinators and approx. 70 Columbia staff at ECI concessions across Spain. You’ll work together to deliver great customer experiences and meet sales targets.
- Support Staffing and Development: Partner with the HR Coordinator and your team on hiring, onboarding, and training. Ensure staffing levels are maintained during peak periods like sales events and holidays.
- Monitor and Improve Performance: Review weekly sales data by region and concession, share insights, and identify areas for improvement with practical steps.
- Be Present and Engaged: Regularly visit ECI locations to meet your team, review their work, and provide constructive feedback and support.
- Build Relationships: Negotiate with ECI centers and floor managers to secure better store locations, additional storage space, and new marketing opportunities.
- Manage Operations: Oversee the opening and closing of concessions, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently.
- Coordinate Inventory: Work closely with the Account Services Rep to keep track of product levels, handle special orders, and develop strategies to optimize stock availability based on store capacity.
- Implement Brand Guidelines: Coordinate visual merchandising, marketing initiatives, and promotional offers to ensure alignment with Columbia’s standards.
- Support Wholesale Activities: Assist the Key Account Manager with ECI wholesale business activities, such as seasonal training and promotional alignment.
- A people leader who enjoys motivating, supporting, and coaching her/his staff
- Committed to ensure a smooth running of the day-to-day activities and operations to support our business goals within concessions
- Able to manage stressful situations in a calm and assertive manner
- A strong communicator and business partner, able to build trusting relationships with your stakeholders
- A problem solver who can make decisions independently while respecting the company’s guidelines and customer needs
- A team player with a positive mindset who enjoys working hand-in-hand with his colleagues
- 2 to 4 years' experience managing a large sales team in multiple concessions/locations within the retail industry
- An in-depth understanding of El Corte Inglés’ environment, policies and practices, and knowledge of the competition at all concessions
- Strong knowledge of retail management, sales techniques, and customer service tools and the ability to train your staff in these areas
- Particularly good analytical skills, which make you confident using MS Excel to navigate reports and to analyze KPI’s, data, etc.
- Fluency in Spanish and English, both in writing and in speaking
- Availability to travel 70% of the time
- ️ Health insurance allowance for employees in Switzerland
- At Columbia Sportswear, we value an inclusive and open culture that emphasizes the absence of barriers between team members. We are committed to fostering a sense of belonging by encouraging personal connections at all levels, which creates a cohesive and supportive work environment.
- Team members serve as ambassadors for our brand, finding motivation in being part of an organization dedicated to activities they are passionate about. This dedication reflects our commitment to building a team that takes pride in our products and values.
- We offer the opportunity to work for a US-based company within a multicultural environment, where your job has an impact across different countries.
- Our "Always Be Learning" culture of continuous learning enables our employees to identify and develop skills that will enable them to continue to grow within the company.
- "Unlock Your Potential" is the spirit that characterizes our vision of employees' development: to offer them opportunities to grow, in their job, in their team or even to change jobs completely. We grow our people to grow our business.
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