Retail Communications Coordinator

We Are Denim Heads.
We love denim. Live and breathe it. It’s in our DNA. At G-STAR, we see no limit to what denim can do. We believe it can be force of progress and innovation for both people and planet. How? By hiring the most creative, curious and caring minds. People who think beyond fashion. Bringing big ideas to big challenges. Driven by possibility. Those who work hard, make mistakes, but always continue to grow.

Denim is in our DNA, our people are our stitching.

Join the denim heads making raw denim!

• Create, implement, and oversee effective internal communication tools (MS teams) for both corporate and store levels, ensuring they are efficient and well-managed;
• Create and execute internal communication standards and strategies that align with company and department objectives and culture;
• Develop and distribute engaging content for internal newsletters, updates, e-mails, calendars, and other communication;
• Implement initiatives to boost corporate and staff morale and engagement;
• Ensure timely and accurately distribution of important information, including policy changes, company news, and product updates;
• Manage workload planning;
• Organize and manage internal events such as training sessions;
• Establish a feedback loop with district and store managers to gather insights and continuously improve communication strategies and services levels;
• Collaborate with store managers, district managers, and corporate teams to ensure proper implementation of communication and tools and deadlines are met;
• Ensure all communications reflect the brand’s identity and maintain a high standard of quality;
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, store and district managers to develop, execute and manage an operational, procedural, and product-focused training structure via train-the-trainer principle;
• Manage internal meetings, follow up and report on action points;
• Responsible for managing the development and maintenance of all internal and external store-related documentation to ensure clear, consistent, and effective communication across all retail locations;

• Head of Retail Operations
• Works closely with G-STAR’s corporate and Retail field teams
• Local HR/ Finance/ IT

• Excellent communication skills including written, verbal, and presentation
• Bachelor’s degree in communications;
• 3 to 5 years of demonstrable and relevant work experience;
• Strong analytical ability with a pragmatic attitude & hands-on mentality with a focus on results;
• Excellent stakeholder management;
• Attention to detail;
• Proven experience in training;
• Ability to manage complex relationships between various professional disciplines and organizational levels & able to connect people to the bigger picture;
• Excellent ability to connect people, manage changes, overcome resistance, and persist in achieving mission;
• Enthusiastic, self-starting, and enjoys change;
• Fully comfortable working in English, both written and spoken;
• Passion for and experience in retail!

• Strong organizational skills;
• Customer and solution oriented;
• Exceptional communications skills;
• High level of integrity and professionalism;
• Interpersonal skills;
• Team player

WHAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE:

Located in Amsterdam, our G-STAR HQ offers the chance to work in a diverse environment, with a team of over 300 employees who represent more than 35 nationalities. We all work and collaborate together to be on top of the game and become the number one denim brand!
Beyond a competitive salary, working at G-STAR brings many other perks and exciting opportunities:

• A work environment that offers room for fun, inspiration and innovation,
• A clothing budget to showcase your personal style while representing G-STAR,
• A flexibility to work from home up to 2 days a week, promoting work-life balance,
• A healthy lunch at our canteen,
• Free access to learning and development platforms Udemy and Goodhabitz,
• A discount on a new bicycle.

• We will thoroughly review your CV.
• We have a large expat community at G-STAR, so please apply in English.
• When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will contact you for a chat and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our first interview. 
• Having an agile mindset is very important at G-STAR, therefore we ask you to participate in a fun gamification assessment! We will then discuss the outcome in a follow-up interview.
• When we’re ready to commit to each other, we’ll finalize the terms we’ve discussed and we’ll explain to you how to order your first pair of jeans from the G-STAR employee store. Good luck!