Full-Time

Assistant Store Director

Updated on 9/3/2026

KIABI

KIABI

Affordable family fashion retailer

Compensation Overview

€2.9k/mo

Perpignan, France

In Person

Bachelor's

Category
Retail (1)
Requirements
  • Higher education in commerce and management.
  • Significant experience as an assistant director or department manager of a profit center in fashion and/or retail.
  • Experience as a field manager with a strong commercial and customer-relations orientation.
  • Ability to lead a team with both kindness and high standards.
  • Ability to work with initiative and autonomy.
  • Ability to be versatile, responsive, bold, and capable of driving change.
  • Excellent organizational skills.
  • Proficiency with computer tools.
Responsibilities
  • Represent and bring the company’s values to life on a daily basis.
  • Maintain a positive social climate while ensuring an effective and agile organization.
  • Recruit, train, and animate the team.
  • Encourage team accountability and autonomy to develop collective success.
  • Implement the commercial strategy in accordance with company policy.
  • Create a pleasurable and differentiated shopping experience for customers.
  • Develop the team’s economic awareness through commercial performance indicators.
  • Manage the profit-and-loss statement jointly with the store director.
  • Monitor and control the store’s various expense lines.
  • Develop the team’s results-oriented culture to ensure site profitability.

KIABI is an affordable family-fashion retailer. It develops and sells clothing and accessories for adults and children through stores and digital channels. Retail operations connect with product, sourcing, production, logistics, merchandising, and ecommerce teams. Store colleagues, designers, buyers, supply-chain specialists, digital teams, and corporate functions support the brand. The profile covers KIABI and recognizes that regional career pages may represent different parts of its international operation. Its workforce connects frontline delivery with the specialist, operational, technical, and business teams that support the organization.

Company Size

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Total Funding

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Headquarters

Hem, France

Founded

1978

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Kiabi launched activewear in February 2026, extending share of wallet beyond basics.
  • Spain and Portugal are targeted for 7-10 yearly openings, supporting steady growth.
  • Sixty-three Spanish stores in 2023 and 74 by late 2025 show durable Iberian demand.

What critics are saying

  • Kiabi’s workforce fell 10.2% to 9,765 by March 2026, signaling operating pressure.
  • Marketplace third-party sellers handle shipping and complaints, risking customer-service failures and brand damage.
  • If Spain and Italy marketplace rollouts underperform, Kiabi loses margin to Amazon and Shein.

What makes KIABI unique

  • Kiabi keeps 74 Spanish stores, mixing owned, affiliated, and franchise formats in Iberia.
  • The 2026 800-square-meter store format targets urban expansion without sacrificing family assortment.
  • Beebs second-hand, Kiabi Home, and marketplace expansion create a wider value ecosystem.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Employee Discounts

Flexible Work Hours

Training Programs

Childcare Support

Meal Benefits

Commuter Benefits

Company News

Spain Today
Oct 20th, 2023
Kiabi opens 63rd store in Spain

Kiabi opens 63rd store in Spain.