Sirius Personnel Looking for Director of Sales (Retail) at Montreal, Quebec, Canada Full Time

Profile: Our client in the accessories retail industry, is looking for a Director of Sales in Montreal to take care of the Quebec market. Your role is to manager their District Managers and provide leadership. The role requires that you help your store managers with hiring, operations, and performance management. You have experience coaching and know where to look to analyze the numbers and implement changes, if need be.

Territory: Province of Quebec

Workplace: Montreal

Products/Services: fashion accessories

Salary: Base $130k-$180k

Commissions/Bonus:20% bonus on base

Car Allowance

Expense’s reimbursement: All reasonable expenses reimbursed

Other Benefits: Full benefits program which starts on Day 1

Functions

• Visit with district managers and store managers on a regular basis
• Assess performance of both over-performing and under-performing stores
• Coach managers on performance management, recruiting and retention
• Analyze sales per store and other key KPIs
• Create and execute on plan to improve
• Ensure that your people’s training is done and up to date
• Suggest and implement new training programs
• Follow budget and sales plan
• Give regular feedback to managers
• Train your managers on effective coaching and training of their staff
• Be at store level, as much as possible

Requirements

Development vs Maintenance: N/A

Road vs Office: 75% vs 25%

Languages: French and English

Education: University studies

Training: On the job but need someone with experience

Overnight Travel: Up to 20% overnight travel required

Years of experience: 7 years experience in a similar role required

Other requirements: Great communicator in both languages

Transferable contacts: Retail sales leadership is a must

Transferable Knowledge

• Strong analytical skills
• Strong people skills (you are a natural leader)
• Great balance of technical and analytical skills with empathetic, people skills