Position

The Retail Management Trainee Program is crafted to put young high potential profiles on the starting blocks for a successful retail career within FENDI. Working with the Retail Leaders (Department Manager, Assistant Store Manager & Store Manager), the Manager in Training will be equipped with a holistic view of the business to gain a 360 vision of the retail day-to-day management. Throughout a 3-years fast track career path, the Manager in Training will be gaining a leadership position to become a key player of Fendi retail network: managing sales team, driving the business with a forward thinker mindset in line with Fendi’s vision.

What is about?

Your path

You will deep dive into Fendi Retail organization by experiencing a 3 assignments path:

1st assignment – 12 months: Based in your “home country”, you will be shadowing a department manager into taking the first steps within the retail environment: sales, after sales, clienteling, team management, morning briefings, stock management, back-of-house operations, and visual merchandising. You will also take the opportunity to have multiple perspectives on the business by having a rotation after 6 months in another store (resort, outlets, department store.)

2nd assignment – 12 months: This assignment will offer the opportunity to experience a mobility in another country. As Department Manager in training, you will deep dive into Department Store to experience the speed and the complexity of this environment. Therefore, you will have to unlock your full potential on the leadership perspective to successfully inspire your team.

3rd assignment: 12 months: For this last stage, you will be acting as Assistant Store Manager or Store Manager and be able to perform your first appointment as retail leader before taking over the direction of a boutique as final position.

Your main missions will gravitate around the following pillars:

• Commercial Performance and Team Management
• Clientele Service and Management
• Product and Stock Management
• Process Management
• Ad Hoc missions

Your Development

All along the 3 years program you will:

• Be closely followed by the Development HR Department, Line Managers and Retail Managers
• Taking part to dedicated trainings and talks, to develop your soft and hard skills
• Gain a broader and insightful vision on the business strategy
• Getting Exposure towards FENDI Top Management

Profile

FENDI next generation of Retail Leaders own the followings abilities and skills:

• Build a strong network with Fendi stores, customers and other luxury brands
• Sense of leadership to effectively drive the sales teams into achieving objectives and retail performance
• Ensure the company policies are displayed at store level to successfully meet with the Fendi standards
• Outstanding academic track record
• Sense of initiative and commercial creativity with fashion sensitivity
• Forward-thinker and self-starter
• Strong interpersonal, communication, organization and follow-through skills
• Potential to grow within the structure to become a retail leader