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Creatively driven, eco-conscious and full of fresh ideas? Consider yourself at home.
Our Housemates are innovators who see the world differently and strive to make a difference within it. Each one is chosen and cherished for the skills, talents and characteristics that make them unique. As House of Hackney evolves, we empower our team to learn and grow alongside us. And, as a compassionate brand, we care about the wellbeing of our Housemates – whether that’s through offering a flexible approach to work with a four-day week over the summer or getting flexible (quite literally) in group yoga sessions.
Step into our House and you’ll be in a land of print and colour, away from the sea of grey suits. Based in Shoreditch, the creative heart of the capital, our House is a place where imagination and collaboration can flourish – where everyone is accepted, all ideas are encouraged, and magic really does happen.
There may be no place like home… but in our House, there’s no place like work.
The deadline for applications to these current roles is midnight Sunday 10th January.
To apply for any of the roles listed below, please send your CV and a cover letter to careers@houseofhackney.com, using the job title as the email subject line.
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Omni Channel Sales Manager – US Territory
Role: Sales Manager – US Territory Reporting To: Head of Global Sales
Location: New York, NY
THE ROLE:
Based in our NY Gallery, the US Sales Manager will own the budgets and strategy for the Omni Sales channels in the US territory, including Retail, Decorating Consultation, Trade, Marketplace, and Wholesale channels. Owning the development and execution of the sales and strategy with a particular emphasis on delivering the bespoke customer services, maximising sales, finding new business and operational efficiency through all channels by optimising the customer journey, constantly developing and aligning all activities cohesively within brand guidelines.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own and deliver Omni Channel sales plan for the US territory by optimising sales and profits
- Develop customer base, forming long term relationships that are on brand and drive commercial growth
- Manage 3 direct reports in the NY Gallery while clearly and efficiently reporting back to the London Head Office
- Ensure House of Hackney is represented both in physical stores and online in accordance with brand directives
- Report on sales and manage budget and pipeline effectively, ensure all potential leads are maximised.
- Speak to customers on a regular basis and attend market trips and key meetings as required
- Manage team to attend market trips and key meetings as required – meetings and appointments should be conducted digitally when travel/in person meetings are not possible.
- Lead the Integration of the showroom with the digital channels, providing operational excellence to a customer first journey
- Lead and develop omni channel innovation, customer experience and standards to improve business development, performance, and brand awareness
- Own full accountability for Omni Channel sales and KPI’s; ensuring sales, profit and performance targets are met and exceeded.
- Drive day to day performance, set and monitor strategic objectives and business development for the teams to include sales targets and KPI’s, people development and customer service
- Lead the analysis of trends and continually provide feedback ensuring product, services, offer and quality is in accordance with sales performance targets
- Regularly audit, evaluate and benchmark House of Hackney against competitor activity
- Lead business development activities where necessary such as remote selling, top and VIP customer servicing, attend networking events
- Enhance and align the Omni Channel HoH brand experience. Offering best in class luxury customer service and product knowledge, CRM activity and after-sales experience
- Develop and execute new initiatives to drive footfall/conversion rates via customer engagement, acquisition and retention
- Own and deliver a consistent Omni Channel strategy, with a high standard of operational delivery, ensuring all company policies, systems and procedures are met
- Accountable, with support from a deputy member, for all operation guidelines being executed: store maintenance, cash control procedures, inventory management/accuracy, security and loss prevention
- Mentor a team to provide inspirational leadership, management and training to all team members, to deliver exceptional customer service and operational excellence
- Maintain a presence in the showroom, supervising sales and service standards. Identify and share best practices throughout the team, ensuring staff fully embrace all brand, product and selling techniques
- Adherence to company procedures – Bright Pearl inputs, delivery SLA’s etc.
- Provide hands on approach of mentoring and consistent support and direction to drive performance, skills and knowledge, delivering a high calibre team
- Monitor people performance while mentoring and motivating team members, encouraging optimum performance and ensuring HR guidelines are being met
- Operate and look as a brand ambassador and conduct business in the House of Hackney way at all times
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:
- Passionate about the luxury interiors landscape and understanding related consumer expectations
- Strong brand ambassador skills understanding the unique House of Hackney brand identity and able to lead and creatively design and sell within this
- Excellent leadership/motivational skills, with a commitment to people management and the development of store teams
- Proactive and results driven, able to take initiative and dynamic to shifting priorities. Ability to think and plan strategically while being detail oriented with a hands on/can-do mentality
- Emphasis on driving and influencing the brand, constantly pushing the bar higher
- Strong commercial acumen, planning and analytical skills with the ability to interpret, action and convert sales information into activities to deliver the overall business KPI’s
- An effective communicator, negotiator with strong interpersonal skills, able to quickly establish rapport and relationships with people at all levels whether internal or external
- Strong organizational skills, able to prioritise, responsive and flexible in meeting the changing needs of the Business
- Charismatic, energetic, self-motivated with an entrepreneurial mind-set, that thinks outside of the box
- Competence in Microsoft Office products and ability to adapt to technology-based ways of working
- Ability to travel internationally upon request
- Degree calibre
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Digital Designer
Role: Digital Designer
Reporting To: Head of Ecommerce
Based In: Head Office
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri + the occasional weekend if needed for social activity
The Role: The Digital Designer is responsible for the ideation and execution of visual brand communications across all digital platforms. They will champion content creation and drive our digital and social-first marketing strategy, as set out by the Head of Brand Creative and the Head of Ecommerce. Taking feedback on-board, they will input design expertise and come up with innovative solutions to drive the vision forwards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working from concept through to delivery across all digital and social channels, including weekly homepage updates, newsletter designs, social media output and online content
- Owning the design and project management of all visual assets required for seasonal launches in-line with the company calendar
- Leading the design of new website developments, proactively identifying new opportunities to improve the site and executing updates in response to high-level briefs
- Producing original, user-focused UX/UI concepts and solutions that are multifaceted and incorporate all the elements of a great user experience to make the customer journey as effortless, seamless and shoppable as possible, while maintaining the house style and brand objectives
- Playing an active role in the development of project workflow, from scoping user journeys, through to wireframing and delivering final designs to developers and the Ecommerce team
- Understanding and applying best practice UI/UX principles to projects; designing responsive wireframes, prototypes and documentation as required
- Working closely with the Creative Designer to storyboard, film and edit video content in-house, advising on best practice with regards to technical execution and file formats
- Post-production management of all photography for both campaign and product photoshoots – marking up retouch comments, checking colours are accurate, renaming and filing images correctly on the server and resizing for use across all channels of the business
- Responsible for managing the User-Generated Content strategy – ensuring our customer images are requested, filed and permissions logged correctly and identifying where they can best be utilised to help drive conversion
- Keeping abreast of new trends in design and conducting regular competitor research, presenting learnings and opportunities to the wider team
- Ensuring the company filing system is organised, logical and adhered to at all times
What we’re looking for:
- Proven experience in digital design with the ability to execute ideas from concept to delivery
- Proven ability to work to stringent deadlines
- Expertise in Sketch and high proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects)
- Video and animation skills
- Knowledge and structural understanding of HTML and CSS processes is a plus
- A deep understanding and demonstrable experience of creating mobile-first and responsive design
- A portfolio/showreel that demonstrates both excellence in aesthetics and technical skills with a keen understanding of typography, colour and layout
- Detail-orientated with a keen interest in the House of Hackney brand and culture
- An understanding of best design practice and how analytics and user-testing play a key part in the design process
- Extremely organised with the ability to multitask and a willingness to go the extra mile to accommodate last-minute requests
- Ability to create designs with an emotional resonance for the end-user
- A flexible attitude to adapt to a growing team as well as business needs – someone who won’t be demotivated if things don’t always go to plan!
- Proactive with an ability to show initiative and work independently to plan and meet tight deadlines
- A positive and collaborative mindset with the confidence to share and listen to ideas
- A passion for learning and an eagerness to stay ahead of the game in terms of software developments and industry trends
- A strong understanding of retail and ecommerce and how to effectively drive traffic through the different stages of the customer journey
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Ecommerce Trading Assistant Manager
Role: Ecommerce Trading Assistant Manager
Reporting To: Head of Ecommerce
Based In: Head Office
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri (Hours/Days may change during peak)
The Role: The Ecommerce Trading Manager is responsible for the day-to-day trading of the House of Hackney website and the commercial marketing decisions of the brand. This role will protect the commercial KPIs of the website and drive global growth using analysis-based decisions through marketing, merchandising and content.
Key Responsibilities:
- Report and monitor sales, key metrics and trends in weekly reporting and trade meetings
- Work closely with the Head of Ecommerce to define and execute the long-term trading strategy and KPIs to help drive growth
- Support on short- and long-term forecasting for the ecommerce channel and budgets that support acquisition and marketing initiatives
- Report on key category and product sales analysis and trends and execute through merchandising on the website using CMS system
- Work with the production team on stock efficiency, monitoring availability for the website and making sure the dates pulling through to the site are accurate. Make sure new product and seasonal launches are delivered on time
- Monitor traffic to the website and identify constant improvements to front-end to maximise on-site conversion
- Drive the content planning for the website, own the ecommerce trading comms calendar and liaise with the full team to make sure content briefs are set and deadlines are met
- Own the content execution on the platform, using our CMS system and plugin tools to plan and execute the content, with support from the Ecommerce Executive
- Work with the team to optimise and execute the website end-to-end journey, delivering the right type of content for the consumer through weekly homepage updates, SEO-friendly landing pages and targeted newsletters using segmentation to deliver relevant content
- Support the Head of Ecommerce on the development roadmap and UX testing to constantly improve the website and develop and deploy the tools needed to support the website’s growth
- Work with the team on the overall digital marketing strategy and execute all non-paid and paid marketing initiatives through SEO, Social and Google advertising
What we’re looking for:
- Extensive ecommerce experience, preferably in a luxury retail brand
- Experience of managing all online marketing channel across devices: SEO, PPC, email, social advertising etc.
- Outstanding analytical skills, strong experience interpreting insights and drawing conclusions to inform business decision-making
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong business judgment and decisions making skills; ability to identify, prioritise and articulate highest impact initiatives
- Good knowledge of SEO and implementing it into ecommerce content
- Good understanding of how to manage and implement ecommerce content
- Competent in the use of analytical tools such as Google Analytics, HotJar, CRO tools etc.
- Great knowledge of using a CMS system (experience with Magento is desirable)