The pandemic drastically shifted consumer behaviour towards retail, with online shopping and customer experience taking priority to ensure brands had a customer base to come back to when physical retail reopened. As well as pushing boundaries with online experience, immersive instore experience and convenience is vital for modern-day society, and it takes innovation and a data driven strategy to stay ahead of the competition.
Olivier Kerckhove, formerly of SThree, is leading Storm5’s brand launch. According to Kerckhove, 鈥�the RetailTech sector is going through a huge shift, experiencing record funding in the last 12 months due to the pandemic鈥檚 impact on consumer鈥檚 buying patterns. I鈥檓 so excited to be founding and launching Storm5 as its undoubtedly the most exciting project in the staffing industry today.鈥� He believes that one of the most significant challenges for a RetailTech company is people; the ability of a company to attract and retain the best talent available is the most important factor in its success.
厂迟辞谤尘5鈥�s mission is to build the most powerful and efficient RetailTech and E-Commerce talent ecosystem globally, contributing to creating outstanding B2B/B2C online customer experiences by connecting the very best talent with fast growing scale-ups. The founding team have already got to work building a network of highly specialised C-suite and senior talent across Data & Analytics, Engineering & DevOps, Product Management and Sales & Marketing fields.
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What makes Storm5 distinct is that they appear and operate more like a ecommerce scale-up than a recruitment firm. They support their partners throughout the whole product life cycle, finding the team to create the initial product development phase up until the post-sales customer success phase. Their team of micro-niche, specialist consultants are experts in their fields, and they have a rich database of the top RetailTech globally. They are growth partners with their customers to provide the ultimate specialisation of growth through people.
Watch this space, as Storm5 will be becoming a market leader in RetailTech and E-commerce recruitment in the months to come.
