Business Development & Retail Growth Executive
Business Development & Retail Growth Manager LAURENE Living | Singapore | Full-Time | S$3,500/month | Career Conversion Opportunity Build a growing Singapore lifestyle brand from the ground up. LAURENE Living is a Singapore-based modern botanical home & lifestyle brand creating thoughtfully crafted products that elevate everyday spaces. We are looking for an entrepreneurial, commercially minded and energetic mid-career professional who is interested in making a career transition into business development, retail, entrepreneurship and AI-enabled business growth. This is not a conventional retail sales role. You will work directly with the founder and progressively take ownership of business development, physical retail, product operations and business scaling . The Opportunity LAURENE Living already has external support for digital marketing and an integrated website. Your primary focus will therefore be the physical and commercial side of the business — getting our products into people's hands, developing partnerships, understanding customers and building a repeatable model for growth. PHASE 1 — Business Development & Physical Retail You will: Introduce and demonstrate LAURENE Living products to potential customers
Develop corporate gifting opportunities
Approach boutiques, lifestyle businesses and potential retail partners
Identify suitable events, pop-ups and offline sales opportunities
Build relationships with potential business partners
Conduct product demonstrations and scent experiences
Gather customer feedback and identify new opportunities
Develop and manage a pipeline of potential sales and partnerships
Test different offline sales strategies and measure results
PHASE 2 — Product & Operations As you become familiar with the business, you will progressively learn the operational side of LAURENE Living. This may include: Small-batch product production
Working with established product formulations and processes
Production and quality control
Product costing and margins
Inventory and fulfilment
Developing standard operating procedures
Improving production efficiency
Exploring ways to delegate and standardise production
PHASE 3 — Build a Scalable Business The longer-term objective is to make LAURENE Living less dependent on the founder personally making, selling and managing every aspect of the business. You will explore: Building repeatable sales processes
Training and coordinating other people
Developing production SOPs
Creating scalable retail and partnership models
Improving unit economics
Using AI to automate repetitive work
Using customer data and feedback to improve decisions
Building systems that allow the business to grow
PHASE 4 — Regional Expansion As the business develops, you may have the opportunity to work on expansion beyond Singapore, including: APAC market research
Identifying potential distributors and partners
Evaluating new markets
Exploring regional retail opportunities
Understanding local customer preferences
Supporting cross-border growth
Who We Are Looking For This role is particularly suited to a mid-career professional looking for a genuine career transition . Essential requirements To be considered for this opportunity, you should: Be a Singapore Citizen aged 40 or above
Have at least 2 years of relevant working experience
Be looking to make a genuine career transition into a new role/function
Be willing to undertake structured on-the-job training
Be available for full-time employment
Be comfortable in a customer-facing environment
Be willing to approach people and businesses in person
Be proactive, resourceful and commercially minded
Be comfortable learning new skills outside your previous career
Be interested in entrepreneurship, business development and AI
Be able to work independently and take initiative
Candidates whose previous experience is in a different occupation or industry and who are seeking to transition into business development, retail and growth are particularly encouraged to apply. Useful backgrounds Experience in any of the following would be useful: Sales
Business development
Retail
Marketing
Hospitality
Luxury
Consumer products
Events
Design
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Customer experience
However, you do not need to come from the retail industry . We are interested in people who can bring transferable skills and are genuinue motivated to move into a new career direction. Career Conversion Opportunity This position is intended to be structured as a Career Conversion Programme (CCP) opportunity , subject to the eligibility of the employer, candidate, role and programme approval. The role involves meaningful development across: Business Development → Retail → Sales → Product → Operations → AI → Scaling → Regional Expansion This is an opportunity to build practical experience across the commercial and operational sides of a growing consumer brand. What Makes This Role Different? You will work directly with the founder of a growing Singapore brand and have the opportunity to see how a business is built from the ground up. This is suited to someone who wants to move beyond a conventional corporate role and develop hands-on entrepreneurial and commercial experience . You will not simply be given a fixed list of tasks. The long-term objective is to find someone who can take ownership of meaningful parts of the business and help build LAURENE Living into a scalable regional brand.