Retail Supervisor

PUMA SE; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

PUMA SE is seeking a proactive sales-focused associate for our Portsmouth store. The role emphasizes delivering excellent customer service, supporting product guidance, and ensuring accurate POS processing while maintaining Puma’s visual standards.

You will engage with customers on the shop floor, coach teammates, and contribute to inventory control and loss prevention. Flexibility to work shifts and drive store performance is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering high-quality customer service and sales results.
• Ability to coach and support a team on the shop floor and meet KPIs.
• Familiarity with store operations, visual merchandising and POS systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales, KPIs and profitability by assisting customers and guiding purchases.
• Maintain high customer service standards and resolve conflicts on the shop floor.
• Spend most of your time on the sales floor engaging with customers and coaching staff.
• Assist in recruiting, training, and developing store staff and meeting sales targets.
• Process transactions, manage inventory, and maintain store visuals to Puma VM standards.

Skills

Sales

Customer service

Team leadership

Inventory management

VM standards

POS systems

Communication

Tools

Retail software

Inventory software

Job description

SPEED & SPIRIT is what we look for in our candidates, defined by some simple values that inspire us to BE DRIVEN in our performance, BE VIBRANT in our sporting legacy, BE TOGETHER in our team spirit, and BE YOU to let our individual talent and experience shine.

YOUR MISSION:

• Sales Management: Drive and achieve sales, KPIs, and profitability goals via offering and showing products to customers, assisting them in choosing products, consulting on product purposes, properties, quality, care rules, prices, offer substitute, new, and related products, calculating purchase costs, issuing receipts, preparing documents, packing purchases, and handling exchanges.
• Customer Experience & Communication: Ensure high standards of customer service and engagement on the sales floor.Take measures to prevent and resolve conflict situations.Foster effective communication within the team and with other departments.
• Salesfloor Engagement: Spend 90% of time on the sales floor engaging with customers and coaching employees.
• Team Management: Assist in recruiting, training, developing, and managing store staff. Motivate and encourage retail sales staff to achieve sales target
• Store Operations: Process POS transactions (sales, exchanges, discounts and refunds) accurately in comply with Retail P&Ps. Identify, interpret, diagnose the performance of the store as based on controllable operational KPI's (including but not limited to CR, UPT, ATV).
• Loss Prevention: Oversee loss prevention and ensure operational compliance.
• Inventory Management: Achieve or exceed inventory and shrink goals; manage physical inventory counts.
• Merchandise Management: Handle incoming and outgoing merchandise and communicate opportunities. Ensure the store's visual presentation meets or exceeds PUMA VM standards.
• Reporting: Prepare and analyze sales reports, and provide insights to improve performance.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and legal requirements.

YOUR TALENT:

• Sales (Profitability Management and performance): Essential for achieving sales goals, managing payroll, and ensuring profitability. Analytical abilities preparing and analyzing sales reports, and providing insights to improve performance. Ability to interpret and diagnose the store performance as based on controllable operational KPI's (including but not limited to CR, UPT, ATV).
• Product Knowledge: Understanding the purposes, properties, quality, care rules, and prices of the products being sold. This includes being able to offer substitute, new, and related products to customers.
• Customer Service & Communication: Crucial for maintaining high standards of customer experience and handling sales transactions accurately. Fostering effective communication within the team and with other departments.
• Salesfloor Engagement: Necessary for spending time on the sales floor, engaging with customers, and coaching employees.
• Sales Floor Stock: Manage stock levels in the sales floor and ensure sizes and styles are available for the customers.
• Visual and Presentation Skills: Important for ensuring the store's visual presentation meets or exceeds PUMA's VM standards.
• Self- leadership: Ability to work independently and efficient and be able to manage own emotions and challenges.
• Technology: Proficiency in retail software, inventory management and POS systems.
• Compliance Knowledge: Ensuring compliance with company policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
• Inventory and Merchandise Management: Handling inventory, managing shrink goals, and processing merchandise.

PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.

At PUMA, every application is reviewed by real people who are committed to fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity - no matter your background, identity, or experience. To ensure our process stays true to these values, no automated systems or AI tools are used to make hiring decisions. Every decision is made by real people -with real judgment and accountability. We may use functions supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to carry out isolated organizational steps, such as scheduling interviews. These functions have no influence on decisions in the application process. We believe in creating spaces where everyone is welcome, celebrated, and empowered to contribute authentically. Because at PUMA, whoever wants to play, can play.

PUMA is a global sports brand creating footwear, apparel, and accessories that inspire athletes and everyday movers. The PUMA Group owns PUMA, Cobra Golf, and stichd, operates in 120+ countries, and has around 22,000 employees worldwide.