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SalaryIn preparation for a Spring 2025 opening of The New Rolex Boutique on London's iconic Bond Street, The Watches of Switzerland Group are seeking to recruit a Boutique Director to lead the showroom.
The history of Rolex is inextricably linked to London, where the company was founded in 1905 by Hans Wilsdorf making this new flagship location even more significant.
Position Overview
The new Boutique Director will lead a team offering professional expertise in an elegant setting, one that promotes a sense of harmony, discretion and intimacy with the brand. The showroom will have extensive Sales and After-Sales areas, including an accredited service centre and a space dedicated to Rolex Certified Pre-owned.
Key Accountabilities:
- Establish a client-centric strategy, to ensure the highest level of customer experience is executed at all times.
- Coaching and support the team, ensuring client experience expectations are always being delivered.
- Optimise hospitality, to create unique and memorable client interactions.
- Develop strong and meaningful relationships with clients.
- Manage, support and motivate the team.
- Play an active role on the sales floor to lead the team by example and ensure a welcoming environment in the boutique.
- Manage an efficient back of house and ensure consistency with established operational procedures.
- Identify efficiencies and enhance best practices.
- Ensure compliance with all Watches of Switzerland and Rolex procedures.
- Collaborate with the management team to recruit, retain and develop talent.
- Execute development plans for each employee.
- Continuously train, coach, and provide qualitative feedback, using reward and recognition to improve team engagement and performance.
Role Requirements/Attributes
- Significant experience in a Senior Retail Management role – ideally within a premium/luxury brand
- Experience in managing and developing a high performing team.
- Passionate about retail and delivering an exceptional client experience.
- Experience of demonstrating successful business growth.
- Proven ability to build and maintain client relationships.
- Commercially focussed.
- Experience of working with a CRM system.
About us
We're a FTSE-250 retail company employing nearly 3,000 people across the UK, Europe and the United States. We're the UK's leading luxury watch specialist in the UK with a significant presence in the US and a complementary jewellery offering. At the last count we have over 190 showrooms across the UK, US and Europe, including 77 dedicated mono-brand boutiques in partnership with brands such as Rolex, OMEGA, TAG Heuer and Breitling plus seven-e-commerce websites!
Our success is based on strong, long-standing partnerships with the most prestigious luxury watch brands, supported by impactful marketing and powered by leading-edge technology to provide our clients with a modern, distinctive luxury experience. This is underpinned by our people, who are highly trained and motivated to deliver exceptional client experience whilst building inclusive teams.
Watches of Switzerland Group has moved our headquarters to a new, state-of-the-art office in Carlton Park, Leicester. The new 75,000 square foot office is located just outside of Leicester city centre and is home to over 500 employees. Surrounded by 32 acres of woodlands with facilities such as a mini market, team lounges, a multi-faith room and a parent room.
Our clients love us for our exceptional client experience, expertise, and approachability. Our clients are at the heart of everything that we do – we love to wow our clients and make every interaction with us special and memorab
