Program Outline Career Progression Path

1-Year Graduate Trainee Program

Time Line

Program Outline

1st month

On-boarding Program ( 7-day)

  • Understanding of Retail Industry
  • GRI career progression and paths
  • Service By Heart Program
  • Team Communications
  • Retail Store Operations (POS, VIP Management)
  • Marketing
  • Visual Merchandizing
  • Roles & Responsibilities of a Graduate Trainee in the store

On-the-Job Program ( 3-day)
Daily workflow in the store practice

  • Pre-store open
  • During the day
  • After the day

Understanding of Current Products in the store

  • Product Mix and Match Practice
  • Visual Practice

Service and Selling Practic
Store members job allocations

6th month

Managing the Business (5-Day)

  • Stock Taking Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Cross Selling

Self-Development (2-Day)

  • Goal Setting
  • Time Management

Managing People (2-Day)

  • Coaching and Training

9th month

 Contributing to business (6-day)

  • Advanced Visual Training
  • Stock and Sales Report Management
  • Marketing Management

Self-Development (5-Day)

  • Career Vision and Development
  • Departmental Orientations
  • Landing on the Right Career path

Leading the Team (4-Day)

  • Conflict Management
  • Motivating
  • Performance Management


5-year Career Progression Path

Career Path A. Retail Management

Time Line

Titles

Job Objectives and Scope

5th Year

Regional Manager in a Country

 

Achieves the pre-set sales target through:

  • supporting the Country GM
  • working closely with the counter-parts in the country
  • building & leading the retail team

in stores expansion and management in the designated region in a country.

4th Year

City Manager

Achieves the pre-set sales target through leading multiple-teams in store operations and front-line human capital development in the designated city.

3rd Year

Assistant City Manager

Achieves the pre-set sales target through working closely with the City Manager to lead multiple-teams in store operations and front-line human resources recruitment and development in the designated city.

2nd Year

Store Manager

Achieves the pre-set sales target of the designated store by effectively leading a team of up to 6 front-line sales in the store.

Career Path B-i. Brand Management � General Management

Time Line

Titles

Job Objectives and Scope

5th Year

Brand Manager in a country

Achieves the pre-set sales target of the designated brand through:

  • supporting the Brand Manager in the Headquarter in execution of brand management related initiatives
  • working closely with the marketing and visual teams in executing & monitoring store marketing and visual standards
  • working closely with the city managers in store operations and store openings
  • building and leading a team of buyers in product merchandizing, distributing and training.

4th Year

Sr. Buyer

Achieves the pre-set sales target of the designated brand through supporting the Brand manager in product merchandizing, distributing and training.

3rd Year

Buyer

2nd Year

Operations Officer

Achieves the pre-set sales target of the designated brand through coordinating the product merchandizing, distributing and training.

Career Path B-ii. Brand Management - Visual

Time Line

Titles

Job Objectives and Scope

5th Year

Visual Manager

Contributes to the pre-set sales target through:

  • Supporting the creative director and the visual Manager in HQ
  • building and leading the visual team

to ensure all visual display across brands are able to generate respective store business.

4th Year

Sr. Visual Specialist

Contributes to the pre-set sales target through working closely with the store personnel in visual display across brands; also providing relevant visual training to store personnel to ensure the visual displays are able to generate respective store business.

3rd Year

Visual Specialist

2nd Year

Visual Officer

Contributes to the pre-set sales target through supporting the Visual Specialist and working closely with the store personnel in visual display across brands; also coordinating and providing relevant visual training to store personnel to ensure the visual displays are able to generate respective store business.

Career Path Option C-i. Corporate Functions � People Development

Time Line

Titles

Job Objectives and Scope

5th Year

Manager, People Development in a country

Contributes to the GRI Retail Business targets through:

  • Supporting the Regional Sr. People Development Manager
  • Building and leading the local training team

in developing and executing timely people development programs to all levels of GRI personnel and measurement the effectiveness of the programs.

4th Year

Sr. Training Specialist

Contributes to the GRI Retail Business targets through:

  • Supporting the Manager, people development in developing and executing timely people development programs to all levels of GRI personnel
  • Implementing the measurement the effectiveness of the programs.

2nd -3rd Year

Training Specialist

Career Path C-ii. Corporate Functions � Human Resources (HR)

Time Line

Titles

Job Objectives and Scope

5th Year

Human Resources Manager

Contributes to the GRI Retail Business targets through:

  • Supporting the Regional Human Resources Director
  • Building and leading the local HR team

in developing and executing timely human resources recruitment, compensation & benefits programs and HR policies

4th Year

Sr. Human Resources Specialist

Contributes to the GRI Retail Business targets through supporting the HR manager in developing and executing timely human resources recruitment, compensation & benefits programs and HR policies.

2nd Year-3rd Year

Human Resources Specialist

Career Path C-iii. Corporate Functions � Marketing

Time Line

Titles

Job Objectives and Scope

5th Year

Marketing Manager

Contributes to the GRI Retail Business targets through:

  • Supporting the Regional Marketing Director
  • Building and leading the local marketing team

in developing and executing timely marketing & PR programs and VIP/Customer Relationship management

4th Year

Sr. Marketing Specialist

Contributes to the GRI Retail Business targets through
supporting the Regional Marketing Director
in developing and executing timely marketing & PR programs and VIP/Customer Relationship management

2nd-3rd Year

Marketing Specialist