Retail Operations Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - Apricot

Apricot

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

LOCATION:
Head Office, Moorgate

CONTRACT:
Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)

SALARY:
Up to £28,000 per annum
Are you currently working in retail and looking for your next role? This is an ideal first head office role for someone looking to move on from working in stores

The Retail Operations Coordinator will support the UK Concession and Store teams.

Reporting into the Head of Retail, you'll help ensure our teams have the information and administrative support to work well and achieve business goals.

This is a multi-faceted and interesting role for someone who can communicate effectively, is highly organised and has an interest in broadening their retail skill set.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Providing administrative support to the Head of Retail
Ensuring sales data is communicated to concession and store teams to given deadlines
Responding to queries from the Field Team
Sanding general communications to store and concession teams
Collating and checking rotas
Managing new starter training arrangements for the Field team
Booking travel & accommodation
Maintaining document records, including Company cars, health & safety and operational reports
Preparing documents and presentations for meetings
Retail Operations procurement, including but not limited to, car fleet administration
Supporting with adhoc projects as and when necessary
Conducting and managing mystery shops
Allocation of stock for given concessions/ stores

This is not an exhaustive list of your responsibilities and in the interests of the day-to-day operation of the business you may be required to carry out work that is not detailed in this document.

SKILLS & KNOW-HOW

Has demonstrable experience of working in a fastpaced retail environment (store or head office), preferably in womenswear retail
Excellent organisational skills
Able to prioritise and achieve given deadlines whilst balancing the priorities of others
Strong verbal and written communication skills
High levels of PC literacy
Intermediate to advanced user of MS Office suite
Ability to proactively build effective and productive relationships at all levels, both internally and externally
Able to demonstrate a commercial focus
A collaborative worker
Able to drive own projects and work on initiative
High levels of attention to detail
Willingness to travel to various UK locations in order to carry out certain aspects of the role

BEHAVIOURS

Passionate about the Apricot brand and the fashion industry in general; a true brand ambassador
Proactive communicator, understands differing communication styles of others
Delivers results in a timely manner
Remains calm under pressure
Able to work to tight and changeable deadlines
Able to selfmanage and work on own initiative
Relentlessly looks to improve working processes and practices with a commercial approach
Resilient and remains positive in the face of challenge or adversity