Operations Director
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Work address: 19 Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Sai Gon Ward, Ho Chi Minh City
Working hours: Monday – Friday (8:00 – 17:00)
- Openings: 01
- Salary: Negotiable based on experience
- Education: Degree in business administration, economics or a related field.
- Experience: At least 5 years in operations management; preference for candidates who have held a Director/Head of Operations role in retail or distribution
- Gender: No requirement
- Age: Over 28
- Employment type: Full-time
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Role overview
- Team management
- Cost and business management
- Operations management
- Marketing communications management
- Customer experience and store operating standards
- Reporting and planning.
2. Key responsibilities
2.1 Team management
- Manage and coordinate store staff, build work schedules, assign shifts and allocate people to match operating and sales needs at stores, tournaments and events.
- Design and deliver training for roles according to the Company’s needs.
- Build and update Job Descriptions (JDs), KPIs and evaluation criteria for each position.
- Monitor performance, discipline and staffing, and propose adjustments, training and development plans.
- Work with others to resolve people-related issues and keep departments running without disruption.
2.2 Cost and business management
- Control and review departmental costs to ensure they are reasonable, efficient, within budget and aligned with business performance.
- Track budgets and costs related to Marketing, sponsorship, production, staffing, operations and other business activities.
- Track and analyze the P&L of each business channel/project, including stores, dealers, wholesale, uniforms, online/e-commerce marketplace sales and sales at tournaments/events.
- Control the financial performance of each program/project, ensuring business activities meet revenue targets and a positive P&L as planned.
- Coordinate resources, people and costs so projects are delivered on schedule and achieve business results.
- Propose ways to optimize costs and improve operational and business efficiency.
2.3 Operations management
- Build, standardize and improve the Company’s operating processes, including store operations, warehousing, production, merchandise, delivery and the coordination process between Sales – Marketing – Design/Production.
- Manage and coordinate merchandise planning, ensuring goods are produced, received into stock and allocated on schedule, in line with sales needs and at optimized cost.
- Coordinate merchandise between the warehouse and points of sale, ensuring products are allocated fully, on time and in sync.
- Control merchandise status and the execution of receiving – shipping – inventory processes at Pili’s warehouses.
- Monitor and control coordination with suppliers, ensuring supply schedules and resolving issues promptly.
- Build lasting relationships with suppliers and strategic partners.
- Proactively identify operational bottlenecks and propose solutions to raise productivity, reduce costs and keep the business running continuously.
- Roll out technology tools (ERP, warehouse management software, etc.) to improve operating efficiency.
2.4 Marketing communications management
- Review and track delivery of monthly/annual Marketing plans, campaigns, product shoots and brand communications.
- Control sponsorship programs, including budgets, media benefits, sponsored products and delivery results.
- Work together to build and control Marketing, Visual Merchandising and brand identity activities in stores.
- Control branding rollout at dealers, points of sale, sales events and sponsored programs, ensuring a consistent brand image.
- Review promotions across Pili’s sales channels, ensuring they follow policy, stay within budget and do not exceed allowed cost/profit-margin thresholds.
- Track the performance of Marketing activities and propose adjustments to optimize costs, raise brand awareness and support revenue targets.
- Work with Marketing, Sales, Design and external partners to ensure brand activities are delivered in sync and in the right direction.
2.5 Customer experience and store operating standards
- Build and monitor Customer Service standards (Service SOP) across all showrooms/points of sale.
- Manage customer satisfaction (NPS) and return rate across Online/Floor channels.
- Work with Marketing and Customer Service to ensure a seamless, effective shopping experience.
2.6 Reporting and planning
- Prepare and compile weekly business reports, tracking revenue and performance by sales channel.
- Compile and analyze merchandise and inventory status.
- Track best-sellers, out-of-stock items, broken size runs, slow-moving stock and defective goods; proactively propose reproduction, transfer, sales push or markdown plans as appropriate.
- Prepare the annual revenue – cost plan, set business objectives and propose KPIs for the following year.
- Prepare and analyze monthly/quarterly/annual business summary reports, compare actual results with plan and propose improvements.
- Provide the reports and analysis the Board of Directors needs to support decisions on merchandise, revenue, costs and business plans.
2.7 Other responsibilities:
- Manage operating technology systems: propose permissions, optimize data flow between Warehouse – Stores – Accounting; approve special limits/transactions according to the authority matrix.
- Oversee business, cost and operations management of Vietory TQK company, ensuring control of staff, revenue, merchandise, P&L tracking, reporting, cost control and operating procedures, and working with accounting and legal on legal/corporate procedures.
- Other tasks as requested by the direct manager.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
1. Professional background
- At least 5 years in operations management; preference for candidates who have held a Director/Head of Operations role in retail or distribution.
- Good understanding of fashion trends and the retail industry in general.
- Experience building and growing a retail start-up.
- Experience designing and rolling out operating processes from strategy through to execution.
2. Skills
- Creative, detail-oriented, able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Proficient in design software.
- Strong team leadership ability.
- Knowledge of the fashion market, customer segments and global trends.
- Strategic and systems thinking, with strong data analysis skills.
- Ability to plan, organize, coordinate and solve problems quickly.
- Cost control skills and ability to optimize operational efficiency.
- Ability to work under pressure with good time management.
- Willing to travel for work.
BENEFITS
- Full social, health and unemployment insurance as required by law.
- Annual leave and public holidays as required by law.
- Competitive salary based on performance.
- A dynamic fashion – lifestyle environment with many creative campaigns, and more.
- Company activities: team building, culture days, performances, company trips and more.
- Annual health check-ups.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
- Direct supervisor: Company Director
- Reports to: Company Director
- Collaborating units: THC – Marketing – Ops – Product – Finance