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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

Send your application to: hr@vietoryfashion.vn