Sales & Retail Operations Manager - Make Up

LUXASIA is the leading beauty omnichannel distribution platform of Asia Pacific that has successfully enabled brand growth for more than 120 luxury beauty brands. Our integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing, and supply chain management. Since 1986, the company has partnered with the world's finest brands, such as Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Montblanc, and SK-II. We have also established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Elizabeth Arden, Puig, Yves Rocher, and By Terry. At the core of our business is a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2000 talents that shapes the face of luxury beauty, and delights consumers daily across our growing footprint of 15 markets. Come join us now!

Why Join Us?

At LUXASIA, we believe there is beauty within every talent - that is you.

We grow you by building your competencies and unleashing your potential. We have curated a vast portfolio of over 100 luxury brands across Asia Pacific, and growing. Your work will enrich the lives of millions of consumers across the region. With us, you get to be an entrepreneur, running the business like it is your very own. We give you autonomy but not without guidance and genuine care. We are a diverse and inclusive team that is courageously innovative. Together as #OneTeam, we celebrate differences, embrace change, explore new ideas, take risks, fail fast, and drive results. While challenges at work are inevitable, the journey promises to be fulfilling.

With LUXASIA, an exciting career filled with robust professional growth awaits you. Isn't that beautiful?

Job Description

Sales Development

• Identify and build new boutique to grow the brand.
• Deliver sales objectives in retail sales, net sales and delivering targeted gross margin, ensuring long term sustainable growth.
• Steer profitability of the business for both trade accounts or brand owned boutiques.
• Partner and negotiate to drive strong support by partners to achieve business objectives.
• Maintain and develop collaborative relationships ensuring long term sustainable growth.
• Drive sales growth through educating and motivating beauty advisors/ cast members
• Navigate and drive solutions for complex situations.
• Effectively manage and drive retail KPIs like conversions, traffic, basket and etc to elevate performance of animations, stores and staff.
• Effectively manage and drive store animation or large-scale event through activation of field staff and working with marketing and education.
• Understanding opportunities within markets, work with regional team to develop business plans for new doors and to increase sales for existing via instore events, brand activation
• Partner closely with marketing to drive launch, animation and sales.
• Support regional educational manager to plan, schedule and facilitate in-store and classroom trainings
• To be the face of LUXASIA to the trade partners to build strong rapport, partnership and relationship.
• Perform regular field visits to ensure strong field engagement and door checks to ensure that inventory, visual merchandising standards and maintenance are maintained as per brand standard, and share competitive insights within internal stakeholders
• Supports to train and field coach the BAs or retail partners to ensure the driving of sales.

Manage the Product, Channel, Retail & Stock Planning

• Drive the achievement of the retail and net sales budgets (sell-in & returns) based on accurate forecasting and planning.
• Support the net sales management through effective reporting and communication to the internal team and business control.
• Manage and support the fulfilment need of trade and retail for ad-hoc transfers and delivery planning when necessary.
• Manages the day to day operations Digital Channel to ensure accuracy and sales planning.
• Support of the Sales Planning Process of Indonesia
• Participate in the definition of the sales planning (Forecasting rounds, retailer targets etc.)
• Manage the product allocation process in conjunction with Indonesia
• Manage and monitor the planning and ordering of products (newness, seasonal, animation activations and regulars) by the trade EDIs and retail team, in conjunction with marketing and sales
• Manage stock forecast and inbound shipments to Indonesia.

Sales & Trade Campaigns Support & Management

• Drive and manage the trade and retail animation process from sales, inventory planning, operations, and people planning), while engaging with effective incentive drivers to deliver results.
• Manage compliance in trade returns process and ensure the budget tracking and management.
• Analyze and manage inventory holdings for all channels at healthy level.
• Drive the people planning for retail team to ensure optimization and SOPs are observed.
• Manage the retail people and the team planning budget.
• Strategize and manage the payroll planning, tabulation and checks for retail payout.

Requirements

• With a Degree in Business Management or equivalent
• With at least 8 years of relevant of working experience in sales for Retail, FMCG, Sales or Beauty.
• A passionate, self-starter, keen learner with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• A good people leader, team player with a positive mindset.
• Savvy, relational team player and people leader with extensive self-awareness, impartial and objective.
• Strong ability to work with ambiguity and able to excel in a start-up environment.
• Business-minded and possesses good problem-solving skills
• Well organized and committed to accuracy at all levels of details
• Focused, efficient, skilled in transversal projects and multitask environment
• Possess an excellent, communication skills in oral and written
• Experience in and enjoys operating in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in working with retailer network and Sephora is key.
• Strong in Excel and Powerpoint.
• Able to work well in multicultural environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present to top decision makers.
• Fluent in English. Bahasa Indonesia language will be a must.