Store Manager

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TALA has been on a rocket ship since its founding in 2019 by entrepreneur Grace Beverley. Built on largely organic socials, today we are a digital-first, multichannel women's athleisure brand with a multi-faceted growth and retention strategy. At just 5 years old, we're trading on impressive numbers, including profitability. Off the back of our success, we've just closed a £5m fundraise round with world class institutional investors, garnering global media attention and are poised for our next stage of growth.

We are looking for a dynamic and commercially astute Retail Store Manager to lead our new central London flagship store. You will build and manage a store team from scratch, ensuring the store achieves targets, engages our community, best represents the brand and delivers results with commercial and operational excellence.

Reporting into the Commercial Director to start off with and sitting within our growing commercial team, this role will be pivotal to the success and growth of our organisation.

Tasks

Day to Day the role looks like:

• Leading, Managing and developing a store selling team to provide the highest standards of in-store service, and drive sales
• Working alongside HQ teams (including Merchandising, Operations & Logistics, Finance and Marketing) on reporting, KPIs and targets, in store experience and events
• Feeding back to HQ on customer experience, customer feedback, commercial performance, and beyond to drive growth and optimum performance
• Manage store operations
• Hiring, onboarding, training and reviewing and managing store team performance
• Working with Merchandising & Logistics teams on store stock management, props, visuals, events
• Executing visual Merchandising in line with Marketing briefs
• Recruit and retain store talent

Requirements

Who are we looking for:

• Previous retail store management experience with a global fashion brand
• A proven record of meeting KPI's
• A proven record of delivering excellent customer service and great at driving community engagement
• through events, social media, and more
• A strong taste level for visual identity and understanding of how to translate to store
• Highly commercial mindset
• Problem solver and operationally skilled
• Happy in a startup business that is learning as we grow
• Self-starter and motivator
• Good communication skills written and verbal
• Positive team leader

Benefits

What we can offer:

• Competitive salary and compensation package
• Experience in a fast growth VC backed consumer goods startup
• Fun, start-up working culture
• A sense of mission, and contribution to the greater good
• Employee discount and allowance on the best sustainable athleisure clothing in the UK

Our shopping habits are driven by global powerhouse fast fashion brands, churning out hundreds of thousands

of cheap clothes every day, telling us we must shop and wear the latest styles.

TALA is the brand you always knew you wanted but could never quite find - responsibly made activewear and

off-duty styles at competitive prices without the need to compromise on high-performance designs and

flattering fits. TALA was founded in May 2019 by fitness entrepreneur Grace Beverley to disrupt the fast fashion

and activewear industries after years of working in the space.

We are TALA. Flattering fits you feel good in and good about.