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.
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