Retail Store Manager
About us
Love, Bonito is Southeast Asia’s leading womenswear brand, built with a mission to empower women to find confidence through style. Incorporated in 2010 in Singapore, we’ve since grown from a humble online startup into a multi-channel business with over 20 stores and counting across Asia and a thriving online presence.
For the next decade, we are looking to expand through new categories, markets, wholesale partnerships, and brand acquisitions. We are evolving into a next-generation regional consumer group — one that blends heart with performance, and creativity with technology.
At our core, we’re a team of builders, dreamers, and doers who believe culture is more than words on a wall — it’s how we show up every day. We move fast, stay curious, and take bold bets on ideas and people we believe in. Here, you’ll find a community that challenges you to grow, trusts you to lead, and celebrates you for being you. Together, we’re shaping the future of Asian brands — from right here in Southeast Asia, to the world.
Why join us?
At Love, Bonito, you’ll do more than just a job — you’ll help build a movement. We’re creating an organization that’s lean, bold, and full of heart — where every person has the space to make an impact. Here’s what you can expect:
- Purpose with performance: We’re building a world-class Asian brand that competes globally. We hold ourselves to high standards and operate with purpose, integrity, grit and excellence. Join us if you take customer service excellence seriously and are passionate about creating real impact!
- Growth that’s real: We are known to be incredibly dynamic and fast-paced. You’ll be expected to learn fast, stretch beyond your comfort zone, and work alongside people who challenge and support you in equal measure. Don’t join us if you’re looking for a comfortable, fully structured setup, but do join us if you’re excited to build, shape, and make an impact together!
- Culture at our core: If you’re looking for a no-corporate-BS environment, you’ll fit right in. We lead with empathy, celebrate individuality, and believe that great work comes from trust, not titles. We believe in teamwork and effective collaboration - because when we run together, we go further. If this speaks to your values, come join us and be part of #TeamLB!
Join us as we redefine what it means to build an enduring global consumer group.
Main Responsibilities
Team Management & Leadership
- Meet sales goals by leading, managing, mentoring, and providing feedback to a team of full-time and part-time retail associates
- Inspire and motivate team to work towards a collective goal
- Collaborate closely with all other functional team leads, in particular Commercial, Operations, Marketing and People & Culture
Retail Performance & Operations: Customer Care, Sales & Stock Management, Visual Merchandising, Operations, Human Resources, Loss Prevention
- Manage the day-to-day store operations to ensure a seamless and smooth customer experience
- Develop, improve and optimise retail processes to improve productivity and store operations
- Oversee general store administration and ensure compliance with policies and procedures, including goods receiving & transfers and cashier balancing
- Oversee store inventory levels and ensure the highest level of inventory accuracy by monitoring, scheduling and ordering inventory as required
- Conduct Stock Taking exercises at several intervals in the year, or as and when required.
- Maintain outstanding store conditions and work closely with the Visual Merchandising team to optimize displays in-store
- Conduct manpower resource planning for both permanent and temporary retail staff; manage shift schedules and retail staff budget to achieve optimal staffing levels for excellence in the brand's customer experience, according to peak hours, days, and seasonality
- Recruit, coach, and build a robust team of Part Time and Full Time employees who strongly believe and live out the LB vision and mission
- Inspire and enable the team to provide a top notch and considerate service to all customers through training and mentoring
- Develop strategies to enhance the store customer experience and drive sales performance by conducting weekly business reviews to expand our customer base, increase store traffic and optimize profitability.
- Deal with all issues that arise from staff or customers (complaints, grievances etc)
Requirements
- 5 years of experience in the retail industry, preferably in fast fashion
- 3 years of experience in managing a retail team(s) - both front and back of house
- Extremely customer-centric and genuinely enjoys serving and getting to know customers better
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, able to motivate and lead the retail team
- Numerate and tech-savvy
- Open to working various shifts and able to work 5 days a week (including weekends and public holidays). Weekends are where all the magic happens!
You should have / be:
- A Love, Bonito ambassador who believes in and embodies our culture and core values
- A passion and genuine love for people; you are a strong leader and are passionate about training, coaching and mentoring a strong team of 30-40 people
- A performance-driven attitude with a hunger and thirst for results and sales
- A high degree of professionalism, work ethic, judgement and keen attention to detail
- Strong communication skills and an outgoing personality who enjoys interacting and connecting with people to build trusting relationships with customers and external stakeholders
- A good team player, a self-starter, decision maker, gap spotter, captain of the ship
- Technical knowledge in all operational aspects of the store, including but not limited to inventory management, sales and cash management, merchandising, roster building, staff training and coaching, stock taking, and recruitment.
Benefits
- Full corporate insurance inclusive of Dental
- Attractive monthly commissions for ASM, Performance bonus for SM
- Fully stocked pantry
- Staff discounts
- Employee-led recognition platform via Praisepal
- A dynamic, no corporate-BS environment to learn, grow, and really make an impact