Assistant Vice President - Mall Operations & Marcom

JOB DETAILS:

Location: Bhopal

Reports to: Centre Director / Business head

Reported by : 100-150 (Off role & Onroll- Operations)

Department : Operations & Marcom

Responsible for : Bhopal and Gwalior Mall

Size: 15 members

Education : Graduate -MBA

CTC : Standard Industry Hike

Nature of the Role : Team Management

Exp : 12- 15 years of retail industry experience in Operations

Working Conditions : Regular ( Odd Saturdays of Month are off - 1,3 &5 )

External Interface

- Retailers - Business Development/ Sales Head, Store Managers

- Outsourced Agencies

- Local municipal authorities/ government and other regulatory bodies

Special Skills/Attributes

- Sound Knowledge of Mall Management practices

- Principles of building and maintaining retailer / customer relationship

- Knowledge of business planning and budgeting

- Should possess good decision making and leadership skills

Job Summary: Responsible for the overall operations and maintenance of the property in order to provide customers with a comfortable environment and quality services and retailers with adequate facilities/ support leading to customer satisfaction and enhanced consumption.

Responsibilities:

A. OPERATIONS:

1. Develop and deploy the mall management strategy and implement policies and processes related to Customer service, parking, house-keeping, Security, horticulture, pest control,

2. Waste Collection and facade cleaning across all the malls and common area in coordination with Centre Director.

3. Prepare an overall budget for the Operations department incorporating operations, security and engineering expenses after reviewing the annual/quarterly.

4. Ensure adherence to the budget assigned for the various activities/ areas of operations (such as Engineering, Parking, House-keeping etc.)

5. Develop and maintain good working relationships with all retailers by interacting with them on a regular basis and resolve their issues.

6. Monitor the completion of leasing administration process by the retailer, provide with Occupant's Manual and monitor adherence to all policies/procedures related to store display, logistics, garbage, mall timings etc.

7. Ensuring efficiency of mall operations through monitoring the opening and closing time of the mall, supervising the activities performed by the housekeeping, parking and horticulture, etc on a daily basis.

8. Monitoring the functioning of food court operations in terms of food and service quality, hygiene, general sanitation, etc and provide the necessary support of required facilities during the events to the Events team.

9. Identify potential agencies for House-keeping, Parking,

10. Horticulture, fulfilling the pre-defined criteria and conduct the empanelment of the same.

11. Identify training needs and organize requisite training programs for permanent employees and outsourced staff in areas of housekeeping, Security, Customer handling, parking etc.

12. Ensure adherence to the defined/ desired timelines for resolution of retailer complaints through helpdesk Centers.

13. Conduct tenant orientation meetings for the entire mall, covering emergency procedures, communication systems and other security procedures relating to the tenants of the mall.

14. Defining the Service Standards for the Engineering, housekeeping, security agency in line with corporate standards and also develop the deployment plan with the teams.

15. Define Parking Guidelines / Rules for the Parking operations and ensure parking revenue maximization through efficient utilization of parking space, and improving the overall service levels.

16. Drives the development and implementation of the maintenance strategy with the Chief Engineer across all the equipment / systems within the property; covering aspects of preventive and break-down maintenance, in order to provide a comfortable and secure environment for customers.

17. Monitor the development of a comprehensive schedule for horticulture, pest control and facade cleaning across the property.

18. Liaise with local municipal authorities/ government and other regulatory bodies along with the Manager - Liaison and ensure that all permissions/ licenses are in place.

19. Ensuring regular audit & review to measure sale, service, operation and customer management meeting desired standards.

20. Monthly measurement of Key Performance Indicators and preparation of monthly Management Report (ACG)

21. Revenue generation for the Promoters through the casual Leasing of Kiosk, Branding, ground promotions and activation.

B. MARCOM

1. Responsible for social media/ Digital marketing to increase brand awareness

2. Manage events and activation with SOH Media Planning and Optimizing Media

3. Encouraging Innovative Media Activities

4. Managing the Public Image of the Brand

5. Crisis Communication Management

6. Initiating & Interpreting Market Research for various retail categories

7. Understanding and interpreting retail trends

8. Briefing the Agency

9. Working with the Agency

10. Developing/Judging/Testing the Communication

11. Event Design Partnership Marketing with outside Brands

12. Event marketing in partnership with Mall Retailers

13. Designing Events and Promotions to exceed the expectations of different customer categories

14. Creating framework for key Events and Promotions

15. Analysis of Events and Promotions

16. Marketing Plan Defining & Understanding the Market Category and Segments

17. Analyzing competitor intelligence

18. Constructing the Brand, Events and Promotions Strategy

19. Understanding the relationship between Retail Sales & Market Rents

20. Preparing Annual Marketing Calendar

21. Customer Interaction Participating in the Development of Customer or Channel Specific Marketing Strategies

22. Providing input to the trade Proposition

23. Contributing to category Management

24. Customer Relationship Management

25. Customer Satisfaction Understanding factors influencing customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction Manage advertising & promotion budget and derive savings and synergist, BTL, Brand Management, Promotions, Trade Schemes, events, strategic tie-ups, sponsorships, gift vouchers, loyalty programs Liaoning with agencies for all creative including briefing and on time execution of plans Develop Annual Promotional calendar of activities within budgets to increase tenants' sales and mall

26. traffic and update management about the

27. effectiveness/analysis report of each event Build and maintain media relations Ensure Mall Marcom Income targets are achieved

28. Ensure profitability of mall loyalty programs