VP store development and design EMEA

at  Starbucks

MUST HAVE EXPERIENCES

• Vision & Growth Strategy: Demonstrated success in driving growth in a dynamic physical EMEA retail environment, to develop new ideas, customer experience strategy and advocacy to grow the store portfolio with our licensee business partners, aligned to brand standards.
• Collaboration & Communication: Has led initiatives to build the effectiveness of licensee operations by clearly articulating and communicating the brand strategy, purpose and objectives and translating into actionable business plans for the licensee.
• Influence: Has been responsible for influencing and maintaining the relationship between company and licensees by providing consistent communications, processes, buy-in and influence on a system-wide basis. Has acted as a liaison between a variety of stakeholders and company.
• Team Leadership: Has provided both strategic and tactical leadership and direction for a team, providing guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to the team, for the purpose of achieving key results.
• Business Development & Negotiation: Strong capability to provide oversight as well as lead direct negotiations on new markets, investment strategies, contractual obligations, ensuring compliance with brand standards and agreements within a relationship management approach.
• Financial Acumen: Has experience and understanding of financial management principles to ensure decisions are fiscally sound and responsible.
• International Experience: Has worked in or led in one or more key business markets outside of home country and understands cultural nuances and has successfully navigated through these nuances.
• Brand Stewardship: Has experience in connecting the dots between current business realities and future brand strategy. Has led in being the custodian and ambassador of the brand.
• Revenue Strategy: Has directly contributed to delivering significant profitability and revenue growth (+10-20% YOY increases).

NICE TO HAVE EXPERIENCES

• Innovation: Has successfully developed and delivered innovations across the brand that enhanced the customer & licensee experience, providing growth, vision and value.
• Technology Strategy: Has had oversight into guiding the technology roadmap and identified and operationalized opportunities for in-store technology innovation and growth.
• Expansion Planning: Has worked closely with licensees to ensure that they have the growth and expansion planning competencies in place to meet the company’s growth strategies and plans.
• Geographic Trends: Has used in-depth knowledge of geographic trends and existing location specific limitations to craft territories in a given market.
• Coaching: Has successfully coached and provided business review meetings with licensees to guide development plans, renewal options and other topics that lead to success for all.
  This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the role and is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible responsibilities, tasks, and duties that may be required. Management reserves the right to amend the responsibilities, tasks, and duties of the jobholder as dictated by business requirements.
  Starbucks is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce . All applicants and partners will be treated fairly, without regard to race, religion, sex, nationality, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity and expression

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a commercially minded VP of Store Development and Design to join our executive leadership team within Starbucks EMEA. You’ll need to be motivated by ambitious growth targets and be able to foster an engaging and inclusive team culture, with a servant-leadership style.
We’re looking for a future thinker, you’ll be someone who thinks outside the box and thrives on exceeding performance expectations and delivering business growth while stewarding the brand. You’ll be a leader grounded in integrity and humility and be able to challenge leaders with high trust at your core. We’re also seeking a person with rich international and cultural experience, bringing creativity and empathy in partnering with our licensees and business partners.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Build confidence and driving significant growth programs in the near term, while building sustainable momentum for the long term
• Making timely decisions in the face of enterprise-level risk, competing priorities, and limited resources in service of Starbucks strategy while considering the impact on partners, customers, and shareholders
• Lead future growth of store development and ensuring the design centred in Starbucks principles, CSR initiatives and accessibility requirements
• Creates the Starbucks experience for partners by role modeling leadership in alignment with our values
• Creates an environment that enables teams to thrive
• Builds trust-based peer relationships and seeks input to create shared goals; leverages one another’s expertise to make progress together
• Talent development and management of team, developing future successors to sustain future growth
• Translating Starbucks commercial strategy into prioritised functional initiatives to achieve the intended future results