Assistant Manager

Foot Locker, Inc.; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading sports retailer in Ottawa is looking for a passionate individual to manage team performance and enhance customer experience. This role involves coaching, motivating the team, and ensuring operational excellence. The ideal candidate has strong leadership skills and experience in retail, with a focus on delivering exceptional customer service. Competitive pay and benefits are offered, including staff discounts and health coverage.

Benefits

Employee Discount

Paid Time Off

Medical and Dental Coverage

Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of experience in a customer-facing sales setting.
• Confident in engaging customers to deliver an elevated experience.
• Ability to respond to changing demands in a retail environment.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and motivating your team to drive sales.
• Ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Delivering sales and operational expectations.

Skills

Leadership ability

Customer engagement

Motivation

Resourcefulness

Cognitive skills

Ethics and integrity

Flexibility

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

Benefits

• Rate of Pay : $22.70 / hour
• 30-50% Employee Discount
• Paid Time Off
• Life, Medical and Dental Coverage
• Defined Contribution Plan
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Development and Advancement Opportunities

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