Human Resources Associate/ Retail

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QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB DESCRIPTION

Founded in Istanbul in 1991, Mavi designs a full collection of jeans-wear, for young women and men. Turkey’s first fashion brand to become global, Mavi has been the leading jeans brand in Turkey since the last 28 years with 15 % market share.Mavi is now sold at over, 5000 specialty stores, better department stores and specialty chains in 50 countries including the US, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and Russia. Mavi has over 326 retail stores with flagships in New York, Vancouver, Istanbul, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Dietzenbatch, Hamburg, Munich, Munster, Oberhausen, Leipzig, Bremen and Moscow. Mavi posted 30 percent growth annually. Today Mavi is a $ 400.000.000 company. Global denim unit sales is more than 7 million per year.

Apart from its own retailing network, Mavi is available at leading international chain stores including Nordstrom, Lord&Taylor, Brooklyn Industries, Peek&Cloppenburg, Breuninger and David Jones, and is sold next to premium and high-end denim brands.

Mavi’s philosophy is to build a brand around perfect fitting jeans that convey a Mediterranean feeling in terms of fashion and detail. Maviterranean is exotic and inspirational, contemporary and accessible. Mavi, which means “blue” in Turkish, is known for high quality, great fitting and fashion-forward premium denim that not only fits the bodies of its customers, but also their lifestyles and quality expectations as well.In 2006 Time Magazine placed Mavi amongst the top 16 best jeans brand worldwide in its A-List. Also, according to AC Nielsen’s survey in Turkey, Mavi is one of the most 10 recognized brands next to Coca Cola, Nike and Adidas. In 2009 Mavi has choosen the best place to buy jeans by Georgia Straight weekly magazine of Canada. In 2012 the world-famous Sportswear magazine chose Mavi to be the ‘Best Denim Brand’.

For our fast-growing HR Team, we seek out “HR Associate/Retail” who will be responsible in supporting day-to-day Retail HR Operations of Mavi.

Responsibilities:

Liaise regularly with Sales department to identify and plan recruitment needs of the retail stores,

Attract high caliber talent at retail field, build network and talent pipeline, manage recruitment process of the responsible area,

Analyze the retail sector and ensure Retail HR Strategy goes in line with Mavi’s talent strategy,

Take active role in organizational development project of HR Retail staff,

Follow up performance development of the retail sales employees, take necessary action in the identification of high potential candidates,

Analyze and communicate with Sales Managers to manage career-path of field staff,

Analyze and prepare monthly and yearly HR Retail Key Metrics reports,

Take active role in termination of employment, legal and compliance duties,

Perform other duties as required and assigned.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in HR or related field and at least 3-5 years intense staffing & selection experience, preferably in a retail company,

Knowledge Labor and Employment laws is a must,

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills following with the ability to build efficient relationships within and outside the organization,

Ability to handle sensitive matters and information with diplomacy and confidentiality

Ability to identify and solve problems,

Strong influencing, negotiating, analytic and problem-solving skills,

Ability to prioritize workload,

Excellent agility in decision making and organizational skills.