store manager
Aug 13, 2026 · Onassis Group
What you'll do
- Lead the commercial performance and daily retail operations
- Monitor KPIs and analyze business performance to drive growth
- Manage budgets, financial reporting, and cost control
- Develop and maintain partnerships with brands and external stakeholders
- Recruit, lead, coach, and develop a retail team
- Ensure exceptional customer experience and visual merchandising
- Ensure operational efficiency and health and safety compliance
- Support planning and delivery of retail events and customer experiences
Key requirements
- 6+ years' experience
- Retail operations management and team leadership
- Commercial acumen and business performance analysis
- Budget management and financial reporting
- Strategic partnership development
- Customer experience management and visual merchandising
- Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
- Health and safety compliance
- Business Administration / Retail Management / Finance / Any Field
Benefits
- Join a pioneering retail concept that transforms cultural production into a unique public-facing experience.
- Continuous on-the-job training opportunities.
- Competitive remuneration package.
About the job
The Onassis Foundation is seeking an experienced and commercially driven Store Manager to lead its premium culture-led retail concept.
The new culture-led retail initiative brings together premium multi-brand retail categories, evolving collaborations, and space for fashion to exist in proximity to cultural production, performance, discourse, and contemporary thought within a single, coherent environment.
He/She will lead the operation and growth of retail concept, overseeing commercial performance, team development, strategic partnerships, and customer experience.
Main responsibilities:
Lead the commercial performance and day-to-day operations, ensuring the achievement of sales, revenue, and profitability targets
Monitor KPIs, analyze business performance, and implement initiatives that drive growth and operational excellence
Manage budgets, financial reporting, and cost control processes to support sustainable business performance
Develop and maintain strong relationships with partner brands, designers, and external stakeholders, overseeing shop-in-shop collaborations and retail activations
Recruit, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing retail team, fostering a customer-focused and collaborative culture
Ensure exceptional customer experience standards, visual merchandising, operational efficiency, and compliance with health and safety requirements
Support the planning and delivery of retail events, workshops, and customer experiences that strengthen the connection between retail concept, culture, and community
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Retail Management, Finance, or a related field
6–8 years of professional experience in luxury, fashion, lifestyle, premium retail, or a similar customer-centric environment, with proven experience leading retail operations and managing teams
Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of delivering sales growth, profitability, and operational excellence
Experience managing budgets, financial performance, KPIs, and business reporting, with the ability to develop strategic partnerships and manage multiple internal and external stakeholders
Flexibility to work rotating shifts
Excellent communication skills in both the English & the Greek Language
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Knowledge of SAP will be considered as an asset
Interpersonal competencies:
Strategic mindset with the ability to balance commercial objectives with long-term business growth
Inspiring leader who fosters collaboration, accountability, and a high-performing team culture
Adaptable, resilient, and customer-focused, with a proactive approach to managing challenges and change
Benefits:
Join a pioneering retail concept that transforms cultural production into a unique public-facing experience
Continuous on-the-job training opportunities
Competitive remuneration package
About the company
The Onassis Foundation was established in December 1975 in accordance with Aristotle Onassis' last wish to honor the memory of his son, Alexander. Half of Aristotle Onassis' fortune was the initial funding for the Foundation. Specifically, the 40% of the annual profits of the Business Foundation are given to the Public Benefit Foundation for implementing all its programs and initiatives.
The Onassis Foundation's mission is to support Greek society in the crucial areas of education, culture and health, releasing its potential and promoting Greece at its best. It has created Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens, a cultural space which hosts events and actions across the whole spectrum of the arts from theatre, dance, music, cinema and the visual arts to digital and hybrid art and the written word; it has historically supported other cultural institutions; offers financial assistance to universities with Greek chairs, departments or programs around the world; has granted more than 7.000 scholarships and research fellowships for post-graduate and doctorate studies; has established a long tradition of granting educational material and technological equipment to hundreds of Greek schools all over Greece and has diachronically supported Special Education; has acquired the Cavafy Archive (more than 4.600 manuscripts and personal items of the poet) to ensure its openness and accessibility to researchers and to the wider public; has great books’ collections contained in The Onassis Library; has completed and donated to the Greek State in 1992 Onassis Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre (OCSC).
About the company
The Onassis Foundation was established in December 1975 in accordance with Aristotle Onassis' last wish to honor the memory of his son, Alexander. Half of Aristotle Onassis' fortune was the initial funding for the Foundation. Specifically, the 40% of the annual profits of the Business Foundation are given to the Public Benefit Foundation for implementing all its programs and initiatives.
The Onassis Foundation's mission is to support Greek society in the crucial areas of education, culture and health, releasing its potential and promoting Greece at its best. It has created Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens, a cultural space which hosts events and actions across the whole spectrum of the arts from theatre, dance, music, cinema and the visual arts to digital and hybrid art and the written word; it has historically supported other cultural institutions; offers financial assistance to universities with Greek chairs, departments or programs around the world; has granted more than 7.000 scholarships and research fellowships for post-graduate and doctorate studies; has established a long tradition of granting educational material and technological equipment to hundreds of Greek schools all over Greece and has diachronically supported Special Education; has acquired the Cavafy Archive (more than 4.600 manuscripts and personal items of the poet) to ensure its openness and accessibility to researchers and to the wider public; has great books’ collections contained in The Onassis Library; has completed and donated to the Greek State in 1992 Onassis Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre (OCSC).