Regional Retail Manager, APAC

Do you have the ambition of working in a vital role within retail management?
Do you have excellent retail management skills and proven results of strong leadership?

At Flying Tiger Copenhagen, we are on the lookout for a passionate and strategic Regional Retail Manager - Asia Pacific to join our dynamic team. We are a global brand known for our playful and unique range of products that bring joy to everyday life. As we expand across the Asia Pacific region, we’re looking for a leader who thrives in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.

Flying Tiger Copenhagen is a globally recognized retail brand with an innovative, quirky, and vibrant approach to design. With stores in over 30 countries, we have made it our mission to bring affordable yet fun products to our customers. We pride ourselves on creating a unique shopping experience and offering a wide range of products that are as practical as they are playful.

As the Regional Retail Manager - Asia Pacific, you will be instrumental in ensuring the profitable performance and compliance of our franchise stores across the region. You will be responsible for developing, mentoring, and guiding franchisees to enhance store operations and performance, ensuring the brand’s excellence in every location.

This position will involve working closely with our franchise teams to foster alignment, share best practices, and support them in achieving their growth and sales objectives. You will be the key figure in driving both store openings and meeting sales targets, while ensuring that the consistency of our operations model remains top-notch across the board.

You will be reporting directly to our Regional Director, APAC, and you will work from Flying Tiger Copenhagen’s regional office in Singapore (Robinson rd.).

This is the job:

• Laser Focus on KPI’s for franchise stores.
• Deliver and drive our operating model (Easy Store) for our franchise partners.
• Align internally on specific franchise needs on retail store operations.
• Define and cascade retail store operations standards to drive retail store excellence.
• Liaise with franchisees on store performance and agree on action plans for improvements.
• Support franchisees on maximizing revenue and optimizing cost spend.
• Lead the end-to-end store opening process from hand-over from store construction.
• Project management in collaboration across functions and franchisees

This is you:

Most importantly you have extensive retail experience and knowledge of best practices within retail operations. Your experience leading and managing across multi retail stores and markets is an asset as well as your experience leading franchisees and retail partners is valued.

The ability to engage, motivate and mobilize teams across countries comes naturally to you and years of working in retail have taught you to perform and adapt in a changing environment with high demands and time-sensitivity.

You are a self-driven problem solver with the ability to connect, build relations and communicate effectively across cultures.

As we are an international team and our stakeholders are from all over the world, we expect you to speak and write fluent in English and we know you are a strong communicator!

Furthermore, we know that you are an expert in Microsoft Office applications, such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Willingness to travel across the Asia Pacific region as needed.

This is us
We are 8 colleagues working from the regional office in Singapore and we are working closely with colleagues in our head office in Copenhagen as well as our partners across the region. We thrive in an international, informal, and fast paced environment. We have plenty of retail and franchise experience but at the same time, we are entrepreneurs, we are building the franchise business for Flying Tiger Copenhagen, and we are not afraid of testing new ways of working or thinking out of the box. We have a target of opening 1.000 Franchise stores in 5 years, and we are just getting started.

If you are a dynamic leader with a passion for retail, an eye for detail, and a drive for success, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today to be part of a global brand that’s all about bringing fun, creativity, and quality to the world of retail!

Did you know
We take climate change very seriously and work very hard to minimize our carbon footprint. We do this by buying less plastic and more renewable materials (everything which grows) – and we also want to make sure that all stores are run on renewable energy. We walk the talk – and make sure that what we do is validated by external experts, in the Science Based Targets initiative. You can read more about our work with climate action here