Assistant Store Manager

ASICS EMEA; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Calm app for mental fitness

Free premium subscription to Runkeeper Go™

Free mindfulness sessions and yoga classes

Professional psychological assistance

50% employee discount on products

Job summary

A leading sports apparel brand is seeking an Assistant Store Manager to support its Cannock store. You will play a vital role in driving sales and improving performance while managing a high-quality team. Responsibilities include supporting the Store Manager, understanding local market trends, and ensuring the best in-store standards. The ideal candidate should have extensive retail management experience and strong customer service skills. Join us in a purpose-driven environment that embraces diversity and well-being for all employees.

Qualifications

• Around 2 years of retail management experience, including coaching and developing people.
• Experience with retail operations and budgeting is required.
• Impressive track record in delivering top-level customer service.

Responsibilities

• Support the Store Manager in maximising sales and profitability.
• Understand local market trends and communicate with management.
• Help in the recruitment and training of a high-quality team.

Skills

Retail management

Customer service excellence

Team leadership

Decision making

Communication

Education

Qualification in Business Administration or related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

Do you believe that sport has the power to uplift the mind? Does joining a truly purpose-driven brand align with your values? Well, then, we’re looking for you.

As Assistant Store Manager, you’ll play a vital role in driving our Cannock store to meet and exceed its sales targets. Using your proven retail expertise and commercial awareness, you’ll support the Store Manager to boost performance across a wide range of KPIs. You’ll motivate our staff, improve conversion rates, and influence every aspect of our retail space using your experience and enthusiasm. Whether you’re planning product flows, managing rotes, or putting the final touches to the perfect in-store display, your decisions will make all the difference to your colleagues, our customers, and the overall ASICS experience.

Here at ASICS, we welcome diversity in our people, their backgrounds, and life experiences. So, you could be the right person for this role regardless of your age, nationality, religious beliefs, or gender identification.

Our perfect fit. We’re looking for someone who lives and breathes our brand values in customer service, product presentation, and merchandising to play their part in running a successful store. A retail expert who’ll be called upon to make key business decisions in the absence of a Store Manager.

Does this sound like you?

Responsibilities

• Based at our Cannock store and reporting to the Store Manager, you’ll: support the Store Manager in maximising sales and profitability and take the lead and drive performance when the Store Manager is absent.
• Understand local market trends and communicate this information to your manager.
• Help in the recruitment, training, retention, and development of a high-quality team, and offer guidance to staff to help us maintain the highest in-store standards.
• Ensure consistent planning and execution of product flow.
• Manage back-of-house operations, share store cleaning duties where required, and ensure best practices in team rotas and staffing levels.

Qualifications

• Around 2 years of retail management experience, including coaching, counselling, and developing people.
• Qualification in Business Administration or related field (or two years\' additional experience).
• Experience with retail operations, budgeting, planning, customer service, people development, and management.
• Impressive track record delivering a top level of customer service.
• Basic skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Benefits & Wellbeing

• Calm app. Unlimited access to help develop your mental fitness through sleep, mindfulness, and meditation.
• Runkeeper Go™ app. Free premium subscription to our running app.
• Employee wellness programme. Free mindfulness sessions, online yoga, bootcamp classes, and Lunch & Learn sessions.
• OpenUp Access. A platform that offers professional psychological and medical assistance as well as meditation classes.
• 50% Employee discount. 50% employee discount on ASICS, Onitsuka Tiger, and Haglöfs products.

We are ASICS. And our five letters have meaning. ‘Anima Sana in Corpore Sano’ or a Sound Mind in a Sound Body. We’re committed to supporting more people to experience the transformative power of movement. So, this is your chance to join a truly purpose-driven brand and become part of a family. You’ll join a company focused on creating an inclusive environment that fosters diversity, individualism, healthy bodies, and healthy minds.

We look forward to receiving your application online.

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