GUCCI General Manager, India

Key Accountabilities

• Retail Network & Team Leadership:
  Manage a network of directly operated stores, overseeing both retail and office functions. Strengthen the local organization by providing strong leadership, ensuring teams are aligned with brand fundamentals, and achieving market, financial, and operational targets.
• Financial sustainability:
  Manage all available P&L levers, both on the revenue and cost side, to ensure committed yearly financial goals are achieved.
• Brand Alignment:
  Act as the key liaison between the Corporate EMEA HQ and the local markets, ensuring the successful implementation of brand strategy. Align the internal organization with corporate priorities, key messages, and business objectives while maintaining a high level of consistency across all functions.
• Market & Business Intelligence:
  Collaborate with EMEA HQ teams and corporate functions to provide valuable insights into market trends, consumer behaviors, and competitive positioning. Lead change management initiatives that are consistent with the global strategy while adapting to local market dynamics, providing feedbacks from the local market on customer preferences, sales performance, and operational challenges to influence strategic decision-making.
• Customer Experience & Retail Excellence:
  Engage with VIP clientele customers, fostering long-term relationships and brand loyalty. Implement Retail Excellence initiatives to ensure a luxury customer journey and an elevated in-store experience and service.
• People Development & Leadership:
  Coach, mentor, and motivate local teams, to build a strong customer-oriented culture and high-performance environment. Clearly communicate short-term and mid-term goals, inspiring teams to meet Company expectations and financial objectives.
• Talent Acquisition & Training:
  Strengthen the organization by identifying and hiring top talents while fostering employee growth through continuous training and development programs and internal mobility.
• Retail Network Management & Partnerships Management
  Analyze and optimize the retail footprint in the assigned market, identifying underperforming locations and potential opportunities, developing and maintaining strong relationships with landlords, property owners, and business partners.

Identify business opportunities, manage and implement new store openings and develop and manage relationships with Landlords.