Decathlon Sports India jobs - Retail Department Manager

Decathlon is a French sporting goods retailer. With over 1500 stores in 49 countries, it is the largest sporting goods retailer in the world.

Founded by Michel Leclercq in 1976, Decathlon started with a store in Lille, France. It started to expand abroad a decade later, to Germany in 1986, Spain in 1992, Italy in 1998, Portugal, the United Kingdom in 1999, China in 2003, India in 2009, Hong Kong in 2013, Malaysia in 2016 and Southeast Asia in 2012 and South Africa, Philippines in 2017 and Australia in 2018. The company employs more than 87,000 staffvfrom 80 different nationalities.

The retailer stocks a wide range of sporting goods, from tennis rackets to advanced scuba diving equipment, usually in large superstores which are sized at an average of 4,000m².[6] Decathlon Group also owns over 20 brands, with research and development facilities all over France to develop the latest innovative designs, registering up to 40 patents per year. Each brand represents a different sport or group of sports, with a dedicated product development and design team.

Decathlon follows a strict policy when it comes to employee welfare and ensures that all contractors working with Decathlon follow the Human Responsibility in Production (HRP) process in all activities. The Human Responsibility in Production (HRP) designates the management system and resources implemented by Decathlon relative to workplace conditions, at production sites and with suppliers; to improve and promote fair working conditions in compliance with the company's ethics. Specifically when it comes to production the company adopts a “Putting people first approach”.