Executive Retail Recruitment 
- EXCLUSIVE TO THE SWITCH AGENCY
- Inspirational! Luxury brand – exquisitely designed in New Zealand
- Dream role, be mentored by a talented, collaborative leadership team
- (Kind to our planet and our community too)
Founded by designer and artist Roanne Jacobson in 2002, SABEN is New Zealand’s leading luxury accessories brand.
The brand takes its cue from an inspiring woman and style icon, Sarah Saben, Roanne’s grandmother, who understood the transformative power of getting dressed each day and wore accessories like armour to take on the world.
Inspired by our past, motivated by the future, their mission at SABEN is to consistently (and stylishly) deliver happiness into the hands & hearts of their customers
This really is a dream role – leading their three signature retail boutiques in Auckland’s trendy fashion hotspots!
Doing wonderful things for our community – You’ll be proud to be part of this team…
SABEN brings pure design and conscious creativity together – each season they strive to be a more social and environmentally conscious business.
They reward their customers and re-home pre-loved SABEN, all while giving back to charity.
Together with other leading brands and the Empow/HER scholarship grant – they support a female owned business with a generous grant and priceless mentoring!
You could soon be joining a business that truly values genuine relationships, teamwork, integrity, creativity, fun, quality and sustainability.
As their new retail multi-site manager your responsibilities will include:
- Working with a collaborative office team including the Director and Founder herself, to drive sales through excellent customer service
- Always being customer centric, managing and prioritising the customer experience in-store and online, as well as supporting store teams to do the same.
- Leading, coaching and motivating the retail team to achieve their goals and deliver exceptional KPI results
- Managing stock issues and feedback to head office.
- Managing the daily store operations including effective rostering, cost management, visual merchandising, budgets, and retail store deliverables
- Recruiting, onboarding, training and supporting people to be their best
- Driving change, accountability and thinking outside the box to achieve results and deliver handbag happiness into the hands of customers
To be considered for this role, you’ll ideally:
- You’ll absolutely love fashion and be excited to contribute your brilliant retail management skills to this wonderful business
- You’ll enjoy working in a hands on, collaborative environment, happy to roll up your sleeves and get stuck into tasks and projects
- Can identify missed opportunities and a great track record in driving sales and achieving KPIs.
- Have great communication skills with the ability to be a leader and build good relationships
- Be proactive, perhaps innovative and creative too
Curious to explore this opportunity? Please apply now!
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