What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President of Retail - US position at Astrid & Miyu?
The A&M Mission: We’re more than just a jewellery brand, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the jewellery experience
Our Values & Culture: We're a values-driven company that thrives on growth, celebration, and breaking boundaries. If you're adaptable, resilient, and enjoy working in a fast-paced business whilst being able to pivot, you'll thrive here at A&M. Find out more about our core values here.
Location: New York (expected to travel across the U.S. and regularly to London)
Salary & Benefits: Competitive salary bonus. See more on our benefits here.
Our Commitment: Sustainability starts with us. From community work, caring for our suppliers and educating and supporting our team. See our commitments here.
The VP Of Retail Mission
To spearhead Astrid & Miyu’s retail growth and brand presence across the United States, while leading the team with authenticity, curiosity and humility.
How You'll Drive Success
Our Values & Culture: We're a values-driven company that thrives on growth, celebration, and breaking boundaries. If you're adaptable, resilient, and enjoy working in a fast-paced business whilst being able to pivot, you'll thrive here at A&M. Find out more about our core values here.
Location: New York (expected to travel across the U.S. and regularly to London)
Salary & Benefits: Competitive salary bonus. See more on our benefits here.
Our Commitment: Sustainability starts with us. From community work, caring for our suppliers and educating and supporting our team. See our commitments here.
The VP Of Retail Mission
To spearhead Astrid & Miyu’s retail growth and brand presence across the United States, while leading the team with authenticity, curiosity and humility.
How You'll Drive Success
- Values Champion: Be the guardian of our values across the US, ensuring they are deeply embedded in every team and store experience.
- Strategic Retail Leadership: Develop and execute the U.S. retail strategy with a strong focus on successful new store openings and market expansion, aligned with our brand Mission.
- Inspirational Team Leadership: Inspire, develop, and empower high-performing retail teams, cultivating a values-led, performance-driven culture rooted in excellence and accountability.
- Commercial & Financial Performance: Drive commercial success by optimizing sales and profitability across all U.S. retail locations
- Operational Excellence: Ensure world-class retail excellence including services consistency, effective inventory management and elevated visual merchandising that reflects our brand identity.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with cross-functional teams to align on priorities, share insights and execute strategic plans.
- Business Reporting: Provide clear, actionable reporting on U.S. retail performance, market opportunities and operational challenges to inform decision-making and shape future strategies.
- Strong track record in retail leadership, preferably with a founder-led progressive brand in the U.S. market
- Being our values brand ambassador for the US, our values resonate deeply with you
- Experience opening stores across the US and happy to travel across states and to the UK
- Ability to inspire and develop high-performing teams, with humility and curiosity
- Strong commercial mindset and proven track record of driving growth in new markets
- Strategic thinker with the capacity to anticipate and respond to changing market dynamics
- Intro & Values Chat - a 15 min video call with our Head of Talent Acquisition to learn more about you and discuss our core values
- Life Story & Values Interview - a 45 min video call with our CPO for you to get know each other better, talk through your journey and dive deeper into our core values
- Experience Interview - a 1 hour in person interview with our Retail Director to discuss your skill-set and experience for the role
- Final Interview - 1 hour in person task interview to complete and present to our CEO, COO and Retail Director.