The posting
Role: General Business Manager
Location: Flexible across London
Hours: 37.5 Hours
Are you ready to rethink your routine? We're looking for a General Business Manager to join our London Retail Team. This role reports into the Regional Sales Manager and gives our London stores flexible, senior leadership wherever the business needs it most — covering store leadership gaps, holidays and vacancies, supporting events and launches, and developing our teams.
A Trinny London Business Manager is the true heart of where everything happens. As a leader you will be a presence on the shop floor, embodying our mission of giving our customers the tools they need to be their best every day, using our stackable, portable, curated makeup and our award-winning skincare. You'll combine next-level artistry skills with impressive product knowledge and a passion for people. You believe in the product being accessible to everyone, and you adapt your approach to reflect the experience your customer is looking for.
London is one of our fastest-moving markets, and in this role you'll be a trusted, adaptable leader who can step into any London store, quickly understand its team and its numbers, and drive performance from day one and will be key in maintaining this across our London store through periods of high demand, change and growth.
Welcome to Trinny London!
Here at Trinny London, we’re changing the face of makeup and demystifying skincare, and we're only just getting started. Founded in 2017 by Trinny Woodall, Trinny London is challenging people all over the world to rethink their routines.
We have achieved tremendous growth since 2017 and we’re proud to be one of Europe’s fastest-growing beauty brands. We’re generating millions of sales by developing innovative products, acquiring hundreds of thousands of supporters and customers all over the world, and more importantly, building a talented and motivated team to support our fantastic growth.
We live by three core values: bring fearless passion, act with smart intent and all wear yellow together. We always go the extra mile, working together to push boundaries and celebrate our wins and learnings as a team. We listen to every idea, big or small, and make considered decisions. We support each other to achieve our goals and thrive on collaboration.
The Role
Your core purpose is to deliver empowering and inspiring leadership wherever and whenever it's needed, across our London stores. Your daily to-dos might look like this:
- Lead your team from the front by:
- Achieving your own targets
- Improving your product knowledge and remaining up to date with beauty trends
- Conducting appointments and elevating your artistry
- Always demonstrating a customer-centric approach
- Work flexibly across our London stores (including our flagships Kings Road, Oxford Street and Liberty), deployed by your Regional Sales Manager according to business need, step onto counters as its acting Business Manager, implementing impactful and commercial business plans
- Provide leadership support to stores operating dual-site or reduced management structures, ensuring operational standards and commercial performance kept consistent
- Support stores through peak trading periods, product launches and periods of exceptional demand
- Complete and distribute rotas, as well as logging payroll, sickness, holidays, 121 notes, ROCs and RTW checks to our HR system
- Oversee the execution of inventory checks, stock counts and visual merchandising
- Accurately follow health and safety procedures
- Utilise retail management and team meetings to feedback on you counter’s performance
- Ensure that your team and counter are meeting business objectives, targets and KPIs, and addressing any underperformance, seeking support from the Education and Training Team, People Team and Regional Sales Manager where deemed necessary
- Own recruitment for your counter, ensuring roles are filled within a timely manner, in line with counter budget and candidates that are diverse and align with Trinny London values
- Motivate your team to continually strive to improve their artistry, product knowledge and performance, utilising the education and training team and resources
- Conduct weekly 121s and monthly reviews, championing your team’s ambitions to progress
- Independently address any performance, attendance or conduct issues in line with Trinny London expectations, utilising the appropriate procedures and support, escalating when necessary
Requirements
The essential skills and experience required to succeed in this role are:
- Experienced in leading a team, ideally within the luxury sector working across multiple sites, with experience at Business Manager level or keen to take your next step
- Adaptable and confident in an ever-changing, fast-paced and high-pressured environment, with the ability to create meaningful impact on your team, customers and commercial performance
- Commercial and data driven, confident in managing KPI's to drive your counter and team to success
- Customer obsessed with a passion for makeup and skincare
- Experienced in supporting or running in-store events, launches or pop-ups
- Strong people management and people development skillset
- Positive and can-do attitude
- Organised, punctual and flexible to commute across London and work retail hours, including bank holidays and weekends
We love to hear from anybody interested in Trinny London! Although it's useful to have the skills listed above, we're always eager to hear from ambitious people looking for their next challenge.
Benefits
We want to provide our customers with the tools and confidence to be their best, and we do this for our team too through our benefits:
- Welcome Trinny London Starter Stack
- Company discount for yourself (50%) and your friends and family (40%) after 3 month probation
- Competitive commission structure
- T-Parties = summer and festive celebrations!
- Enhanced family friendly packages
- Rewards and Recognition Scheme (awarding length of service with gifts, vouchers and additional annual leave)
Equal Opportunities
We celebrate diversity in our customers, our products, and the teams we build. We champion inclusivity and want everyone to be authentically themselves in the workplace.
At Trinny London we want our brand to represent our community and customer. While we particularly champion and encourage applications from our vibrant 40+ community, we welcome applicants of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences—ensuring an inclusive, age-diverse workplace where everyone feels celebrated and valued.
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