Assistant Manager Retail Training

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION:

Manage the development of retail operations trainings that equip the sales team with the essential knowledge in achieving business goals and targets.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Training Organization:

- To complete training needs assessments within the country and match courses available within adidas group to the needs.

- Develop and manage the retail training calendar in coordination with the District Manager, Operation Managers and Key Account Management teams as well as Sales Training Manager. 

- To review trainin g materials received from region/global and adapt the training to the requirements of the subsidiary while maintaining the integrity of the course and its learning objectives to ensure consistent delivery globally

- To be the champion of retail trainings

- Prioritize training per account and optimize training resources and training locations.

- Work with Retail Operations, Marketing and Sales to develop and refine retail training contents, ensuring the relevance by collecting retail operations guidelines and priority, and using own retail benchmark.

- Manage training resources including internal and external trainers and monitor training delivery quality

- Review feedback from customers and training KPIs to recommend improvements

- Develop processes for regular revision of content and effectiveness of evaluation

- Develop stringent control process for monitoring training delivery quality and participant eligibility

- Leverage internal/external expertise to ensure Retail Trainers are equipped with the essential, latest knowledge crucial to high-impact training delivery

- To track the completion of training within the retail employee group of the certificates

- To manage the preparation of local graduates to the adidas degree in retail management

Budget & Expenses:

- Manage assigned training budget and ensure cost effectiveness

Personnel Management:

- Set performance and development plan with retail trainers; review and evaluate.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

External: Agency 

Internal:

Global different business units (Running/Basketball/Training/Original..etc)

Great China training team

TW market CTC & Marketing team

TW Retail Operation team (ROM/DM)

TW Retail Excellence  

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES :

IT Skills: Outlook/Word/Excel/ PPT Advanced

Language Skills: Fluent spoken and written English

 

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

-  University degree or above

-  Minimum 5 years experience in retail related function.

- Minimum 3 years experience in retail training development and delivery in leading multinational / consumer goods company, or very successful franchise store manager experience. 

- Experience with apparel retail or franchise training preferred