Assistant Manager - Hobart

Footlocker; Sydney; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Footlocker Australia in Sydney seeks an experienced leader to coach and guide a team, managing store operations, training, employee management, visual merchandising, and asset protection. In the absence of the Store Manager, you will assume all duties while driving sales and maximizing profit goals through an elevated customer experience.

You will lead by example, ensuring excellent product knowledge, engaging customers, and fostering a positive, inclusive work environment with flexibility to

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of leadership in customer-facing sales.
• Strong customer engagement skills to deliver elevated experiences.
• Able to work nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Proactive, resourceful, and adaptable to omni-channel retail.
• Excellent ethics, integrity and trust.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and motivating the team to drive sales and deliver exceptional service.
• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction with product knowledge and collaboration with co-workers.
• Deliver sales, customer experience, merchandising, visual, and operational expectations.
• Act as a partner between customers, sales associates and store leadership.
• Learn and share expertise of products and trends to fit customer needs.

Skills

Leadership

Customer service

Team motivation

Product knowledge

Sales drive

Adaptability

Job description

Overview

You can’t think of anywhere else you’d rather be. You enjoy coaching and teaching your team to continually improve how they deliver a great in-store Customer Experience, and you’re now ready to start leading the team with all aspects of the Customer Experience, including: store operations, training, employee management, visual merchandising, and asset protection. In the absence of the Store Manager, you will assume all managerial duties. Your performance will be measured by your ability to drive sales and maximize profit goals for a specific store.

Responsibilities

• Coaching, and motivating your team to drive sales that deliver exceptional customer service
• Ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by being knowledgeable on all products offered, and teaming up with co-workers to provide excellent sales service
• Delivering sales, customer experience, merchandising, visual, and operational expectations
• Act as a partner between customers, sales associates and store leadership
• Ability to learn and share expertise of products and trends to fit customer’s needs
• Maintains an awareness of all product knowledge, and current or upcoming product / trends
• Contributes to a positive and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership ability with at least 1 year of experience in a customer-facing sales setting
• Confident and comfortable engaging customersto deliver an elevated experience
• Motivated to achieve great results because of one's enthusiasm from interacting with customers and athletic products
• Is resourceful and versatile in responding to changing demands and opportunities in a rapidly changing omni-channel retail environment
• Initiates completion of tasks or activities without necessary supervision
• Strong cognitive and mathematical skills, including problem analysis, decision making and financial analysis
• High level of ethics, values, integrity, and trust
• Flexible availability – including nights, weekends, and holidays