Vice President – Retail Operations, Course Materials

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kentucky.

📋 Description

• Driving annual bottom line growth throughout the KCTCS system.

• Overseeing the 16 KCTCS P&Ls, enhancing sales, COGS, payroll, and OpEx to promote efficiency and profitability across the system.

• Providing monthly reports to the COO on P&L performance for all stores, including detailed customer-level strategies for each store to enhance performance.

• Directly supervising and developing at least 2 regional managers within the Kentucky region.

• Engaging in regular travel to gain a comprehensive understanding of retail operations in Kentucky.

• Leading initiatives to automate, streamline, and optimize retail processes that can be implemented across the broader BibliU customer base.

• Cultivating relationships with campus partners and delivering quarterly financial updates.

• Establishing the new course materials vertical at BibliU across all stores.

• Introducing new roles, structures, processes, and systems for forecasting, ordering, and returning physical course materials.

⛳️ Requirements

• A strong influencer with the ability to lead data-driven change initiatives to optimize performance.

• An extensively experienced leader in course materials and campus retail, with several years of experience at the VP level.

• Candidates must possess excellent P&L management experience, demonstrating the ability to enhance bottom line performance using various levers in a short timeframe.

• Candidates should have robust inventory and working capital management skills, particularly in physical course materials.

• A willingness to travel extensively to stores across the US to understand course material operations and implement improvement solutions.

• A strong collaborator who can foster excellent personal relationships across both retail and digital business sectors.

🏝️ Benefits

• 35 holidays per year - yes, that’s correct! (in addition to public holidays)

• Your birthday off

• 12 scheduled company wellness Fridays off per year (in addition to your vacation entitlement)

• Medical, vision & dental insurance (BibliU contributing 70% of all monthly premiums)

• 401k plan (Company Match: 100% of the first 3%; 50% of the next 2%)

• Enhanced maternity & paternity allowance

• Flexible Spending Account

• Flexible working hours - we’re a remote team spread across the US and UK

• Work-from-home allowance to help you create your ideal WFH setup