Trainee Manager

**Job responsibilities**:
**Program Overview**

The Retail Management Trainee Program is crafted to put young high potential profiles on the starting blocks for a successful retail career within FENDI.
Working with the Retail Leaders (Department Manager, Operations Manager, In Store Markeing Manager, Assistant Store Manager), the Manager in Training will be equipped with a holistic view of the business to gain a 360 vision of the retail day-to-day management. Throughout a 2-years fast track career path, the Manager in Training will be gaining a leadership position to become a key player of Fendi retail network: managing sales team, driving the business with a forward thinker mindset in line with Fendi’s vision.

**What is about?**
- Your path _

You will deep dive into Fendi Retail organization by experiencing a 2 assignments path:
1rst assignment - 12 months: Based in your “home country”, you will be shadowing a department manager into taking the first steps within the retail environment: sales, after sales, clienteling, team management, morning briefings, stock management, back-of-house operations, and visual merchandising. You will also take the opportunity to have multiple perspectives on the business by having a rotation after 6 months in another store (resort, outlets, department store.)

2 nd assignment - 12 months: This assignment will offer the opportunity to experience a mobility in another country. As Department Manager in training, you will deep dive into Department Store to experience the speed and the complexity of this environment. Therefore, you will have to unlock your full potential on the leadership perspective to successfully inspire your team.

Your main missions will gravitate around the following pillars:

- Commercial Performance and Team Management
- Clientele Service and Management
- Product and Stock Management
- Process Management
- Ad Hoc missions
- Your Development _

All along the 2 years program you will:

- Be closely followed by the Development HR Department, Line Managers and Retail Managers
- Taking part to dedicated trainings and talks, to develop your soft and hard skills
- Gain a broader and insightful vision on the business strategy
- Getting Exposure towards FENDI Top Management

**Profile**:
FENDI next generation of Retail Leaders own the followings abilities and skills:

- Outstanding academic track record
- Sense of initiative and commercial creativity with fashion sensitivity
- Forward-thinker and self-starter
- Strong interpersonal, communication, organization and follow-through skills
- Potential to grow within the structure to become a retail leader
- Build a strong network with Fendi stores, customers and other luxury brands
- Sense of leadership to effectively drive the sales teams into achieving objectives and retail performanceEnsure the company policies are displayed at store level to successfully meet with the Fendi standards- Get ready to start your career in FENDI _

**_FENDI _**
**MAISON***:

- The Fendi Maison was established by Adele and Edoardo Fendi in Rome in 1925. The opening of the first Fendi boutique - a handbag shop and fur workshop followed. Soon winning international acclaim, Fendi emerged as a brand renowned for its elegance, craftsmanship, innovation and style.
Called by the legendary five Fendi sisters, the collaboration with the late Karl Lagerfeld began back in 1965 and lasted 54 years. In 1992, Silvia Venturini Fendi seconded him in the Artistic Direction; in 1994, she is given the direction of Accessories and later of Menswear.
In 2000, the LVMH group acquires Fendi becoming in 2001 its majority shareholder. Appointed in 2020, Kim Jones held the role of Artistic Director of Couture and Womenswear until 2024. Since 2020, Delfina Delettrez Fendi, fourth generation of the Fendi family, is Artistic Director of Jewellery. Today Fendi is synonymous with quality, tradition, experimentation and creativity.