Assistant Manager - Merrylands

Foot Locker; Cumberland; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Foot Locker in Australia is seeking a Store Manager to lead in-store Customer Experience, coaching teams across store operations, training, employee management, visual merchandising and asset protection. In the absence of the Store Manager, you will assume all managerial duties and drive sales and profit goals for the store.

You will partner with customers, sales associates and store leadership to deliver exceptional service, maintain product knowledge and trends, and foster a positive,

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership with at least 1 year in a customer-facing sales setting.
• Able to engage customers and deliver elevated experiences.
• Motivated to achieve results through customer interaction and athletic products.
• Resourceful in adapting to an omni-channel retail environment.
• Initiates tasks without supervision.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills including financial analysis.
• High ethics, values, integrity, and trust.
• Flexible availability including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and motivating team to drive sales and exceptional service.
• Ensure high customer satisfaction by product knowledge and teamwork.
• Deliver sales, customer experience, merchandising, and operations expectations.
• Act as a partner between customers, sales associates and store leadership.
• Learn and share product knowledge and trends to fit customer needs.
• Maintain awareness of product knowledge and trends.
• Contribute to a positive and inclusive work environment.

Skills

Leadership

Customer service

Sales skills

Team motivation

Analytical skills

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 customers to 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