Hybrid Senior Commercial Retail Manager

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About the role

  • Senior Commercial Retail Manager optimizing Jellycat's retail experiences post-launch. Focused on operational excellence and ensuring brand standards across global markets in retail environments.

Responsibilities

  • Owning the hypercare phase for all newly launched retail experiences, pop-ups, and permanent partner spaces.
  • Acting as the single point of accountability once experiences go live, ensuring stability, readiness, and consistency.
  • Leading the structured handover from Brand and Commercial teams into ongoing retail operations.
  • Establishing clear hypercare frameworks, timelines, and exit criteria for each launch.
  • Ensuring Jellycat’s brand standards, storytelling, and experiential intent are delivered exactly as designed in live environments.
  • Identifying and resolve any execution gaps between concept and reality.
  • Protecting the customer journey across staffing, VM, flow, maintenance, and experiential detail in collaboration with the stakeholders.
  • Rapidly diagnosing and resolving operational issues during early trading periods.
  • Working closely with retail partners, store teams, and suppliers to embed ways of working.
  • Ensuring operational playbooks, standards, and training are fully understood and adopted.
  • Serving as the connective tissue between Brand, Commercial, Creative, Production, and Retail partners once spaces are live.
  • Translating Brand intent into clear operational guidance for store teams and partners.
  • Providing structured feedback loops into Brand and Commercial teams based on real-world performance and observations.
  • Providing direct leadership to retail resources across France and Germany, ensuring clarity of role and accountability during hypercare.
  • Supporting the development of local retail capability to enable a smooth transition out of hypercare.
  • Building a scalable support model, including UK based resources, to manage multiple concurrent launches.
  • Acting as a calm, credible senior presence during high pressure launch periods.
  • Capturing post-launch learnings to improve future experiences and activation models.
  • Refining hypercare processes, tools, and standards to enable repeatable global rollouts.
  • Sharing insights and recommendations to strengthen future design, build, and launch phases.

Requirements

  • Senior experience in retail & retail operations, experiential retail, or flagship store environments.
  • Proven track record supporting complex retail launches through live trading and stabilisation.
  • Experience working with premium, luxury, or design led brands.
  • Strong understanding of how retail environments operate once customers enter the space.
  • Gravitas and credibility to operate confidently in high profile, live retail environments.
  • Calm, solutions focused leadership style under pressure.
  • Strong people leadership across multiple markets.
  • Exceptionally organised with obsessive attention to detail.
  • Excellent project and issue resolution capability.
  • Strong understanding of retail standards, VM execution, staffing models, and customer flow.
  • Confident communicator able to translate creative intent into operational reality.
  • High proficiency in Microsoft Office and operational planning tools.

Benefits

  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Group Life Cover
  • 25 days paid holiday
  • Hybrid working
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Private Chef
  • Regular social & team events
  • Contributory Pension Scheme

Job title

Senior Commercial Retail Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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