- Location
- Nice Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur France
- Employment
- Contract
- Seniority
- Manager
- Department
- Retail & Boutique Operations
- Posted
- Nov 2, 2026
About Kendo
Kendo is a dynamic beauty brand incubator within the LVMH family, renowned for creating and scaling distinctive names that shape contemporary prestige beauty. Since its founding in 2010, the company has combined entrepreneurial agility with the resources and standards of a global luxury group, fostering brands such as Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Ole Henriksen, and KVD Beauty. As an employer, Kendo offers an inventive, fast-moving environment where creativity, commercial rigor, inclusivity, and digital fluency converge. Its teams are encouraged to challenge convention, build culturally resonant products, and contribute to a portfolio defined by innovation, authenticity, and global ambition.
Kendo is seeking a Regional Retail Manager for the Grand Sud region, covering the Côte d’Azur, Provence, Rhône-Alpes, Languedoc, Midi-Pyrénées and Aquitaine. This six-month fixed-term contract begins in December 2026 and is a full-time, executive-status role, with four days of store visits and travel per week.
Role & Responsibilities
- Manage the region’s sales revenue and measure the impact of actions taken.
- Monitor performance indicators weekly.
- Develop action plans in collaboration with stores.
- Monitor the performance of beauty advisors weekly.
- Visit stores regularly, four days per week.
- Build close, lasting relationships with store teams and head office teams.
- Maintain a close point of contact with store teams.
- Strengthen customer affinity through dedicated gestures.
- Deliver actions in line with product launch and trade marketing calendars.
- Propose and coordinate in-store events for customers.
- Increase the visibility of Kendo brands in stores, including through the customer journey and product presentations.
- Stay informed about store news and competitors’ activities.
- Conduct benchmarking and share findings with Kendo head office teams.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of customer expectations, needs and requirements, and how they evolve.
- Support the development of beauty advisors in the region on a day-to-day basis.
- Create individual training plans for beauty advisors.
- Manage beauty advisors’ succession plans.
- Prepare beauty advisor schedules based on store needs, performance, planned activations and the wider context.
- Ensure stores meet excellence standards for stock, merchandising, visibility along the customer journey and offer implementation.
- Negotiate local training initiatives with regional and store directors.
- Propose tailored training plans based on store needs and performance.
- Support the Education Manager in rolling out training.
- Help coordinate training events in the region.
Qualifications
- Commercial training.
- At least 3 years of successful direct B2C sales experience through a sales network.
- Strong interest in the retail environment and its day-to-day challenges.
- Ability to lead a team with leadership and persuasive skills.
- Results-oriented, with the ability to analyse available performance indicators.
- Strong interest in the cosmetics market and omnichannel customer experience.
- Dynamic, with excellent interpersonal skills and a strong drive to exceed objectives and contribute to Kendo brands’ growth.
- Fluent English is required.
- Excellent command of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- High mobility across the region, with four days of travel per week.
Skills
Experience
At least 3 years of successful direct B2C sales experience through a sales network; the role also lists a minimum of 5 years’ experience.
Education
Commercial training.
Workplace
The successful candidate will be located in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
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Culture
Kendo offers a fast-moving, entrepreneurial culture where brand builders, creatives, and beauty experts collaborate to develop distinctive global beauty brands. As part of the LVMH ecosystem, it combines the agility of an independent incubator with the standards, resources, and international perspective of a luxury group. The environment values innovation, inclusivity, commercial excellence, and hands-on ownership at every level.
About Cerulean
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