
Assistant Education Manager
- Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Devise and/or adapt training programs and materials, and deliver adequate training to enable field staffs to effectively and qualitatively sell innovations and priority brands, and achieve qualitative and quantitative commercial targets set.
- Develop and implement training programs for field staff on skill enhancement, performance improvement, career development, new hire orientation programs etc.
- Uphold the high performance, grooming and behavioural standards expected of the sales force, and ensure that BAs understand and uphold the same.
- Work with Marketing, and Commercial Teams to understand objectives set for each key retailer and brand, define gaps and work towards improving and closing these sales force-related, productivity-related gaps
- Conduct regular OTJ training at all key stores and counters with the objective of helping BAs sharpen their selling competencies, overcome selling challenges, and assessing BAs’ potential and performance
- Provide post-training reports to give ongoing perspective on individuals and teams in terms of competencies, learning needs and attitude
- Proactively engage with retailers’ training department to schedule formal/informal, in-person and digital, training sessions with the objective of ensure that Coty’s key brands and products are always top of mind
- Partner with Retail Operations to constantly assess and evolve the BA talent pool to anticipate business needs (eg launching skincare)
- Prepare and maintain training course materials, equipment and supplies (eg products, tools etc). Plan, schedule and inform sales force about the training events in advance.
- Spend 50% of his/her time in the trade, and on the ground; possible more in the initial year
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the beauty industry with background in training & retail operations
- Skincare/Cabin experience is strongly preferred
- University Degree or above in related field
- Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills, ability to lead large scale training conferences, workshops and live streaming activities.
- Individual must possess advanced research, creativity, adaptability and problem-solving skills