Commercial Director Merchant

Nordic Sports Brands is an eCommerceoriented fastgrowing omnichannel specialist sporting and outdoor goods retail and wholesale group with its strong brands. The Group has companies in the Nordic countries of Finland Sweden and Norway: Nordic Sports Finland (wholesale 1994) Green Trail (Finland retail 1993) Kuntokauppa (Finland retail 2007) Scushi (Norway retail 2012) and Sportproffsen (Sweden retail 2020). The entrepreneurowned business offers great customer experience by highquality price ratio and a specialty store level of service. The Group employs over 100 eCommerce and retail professionals. NS Brands headquarters is located in Tampere Finland.

The vision is to grow into the best company in the Nordic countries in terms of customer experience employee experience and profitable growth. The business is aimed to run by a Winning culture that encourages efficient accomplishment and continuous development with the mission of Wellbeing for people. Currently the company is going through a business restructuring process focusing on turning the business back to profitable growth thus writing the next chapters in the success story.

Job Title: Merchant of Kuntokauppa (Commercial Director)

Job Description:

Nordic Sports Brands is looking for an experienced entrepreneurial and growthminded Commercial Director to run the groups biggest sales channel Kuntokauppa in Finland with full profit & loss responsibility. As the merchant of the most important sales channel in the Nordic Sports Brands group you will serve as a role model leading your fellow merchants by example across other sales channels in Finland Sweden and Norway.

In the role of Commercial Director Kuntokauppa you will be reporting to the Chief Growth Officer while also working closely with the Groups CEO and founder and other Group Management Team members. Your primary objective will be to drive profitable growth in Finland through online and offline retail and B2B sales channels. You will be expected to guide the development of the sales channels and lead the teams responsible for their success while ensuring an exceptional customer experience through all touchpoints. While doing this you will be defining developing and managing the implementation of our business concept in the whole group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Merchant of Kuntokauppa drive profitable growth with exceptional customer and employee experience across all Kuntokauppa sales channels.
• Implement and constantly develop Group best practices in Kuntokauppa as a winning business concept by working with the management product managers and fellow merchants to reach a high databased learning curve paving the way for the international merchant teams.
• Collaborate with product management group leadership marketing operations and other crossfunctional teams to collectively plan your product assortment and budget for sales and to align initiatives with overall business goals.

Requirements:

• 5 years of relevant experience preferably in consumer goods retail.
• At least Bachelors Degree in business or a related field.
• Successful track record in driving profitable growth while providing an exceptional customer experience.
• Fluent in English and Finnish.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Good knowledge and understanding of the sporting goods retail market is considered a bonus.

Nordic Sports Brands offers you challenging and interesting tasks a corporate culture aiming for excellence and a positive and encouraging learninghungry work community consisting of top experts who believe in dynamic and courageous datadriven work. You have the opportunity to develop the business develop yourself and be involved in writing an exceptional growth story. In addition you will receive good and developing employee benefits.

We will require a negative drug test as part of Nordic Sports Brands antidrug policy. This small gesture aims to promote staff commitment to work in line with our mission and industry for the wellbeing and health of people.

Interested! If you have any further questions contact the HR team at The application deadline is 20.03.2024. Dont hesitate to send your application with your salary request before that as we will be reviewing the application continuously.

We are looking forward to your application!