Store Manager (37.5 Hours)

Space NK Limited; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Space NK is a premium beauty retailer known for curating over 100 brands. Based in Edinburgh, this Store Manager role drives sales and profitability while building a high-performing team in a fast-paced, customer-first environment.

You will coach staff, manage training and product knowledge, analyse weekly reports, and ensure daily operations meet targets. A hands-on leader with strong organisational skills will thrive in our Edinburgh store.

Qualifications

• Deliver a customer-first experience with strong leadership and coaching.
• Analyse commercial reports to drive sales opportunities.
• Identify key performance behaviours and team competencies.
• Build strong relationships with support office and store teams.

Responsibilities

• Coach your team to deliver a customer-first experience consistently.
• Ensure product training and knowledge to provide unbiased advice.
• Exceed sales targets and deliver growth and conversion metrics.
• Manage payroll spend through effective scheduling and planning.
• Maintain stock accuracy and adherence to stock policies.
• Communicate targets and performance insights to the team daily, weekly, monthly.
• Identify opportunities to maximise the business and liaise with partners.

Skills

Customer service

Leadership

Sales analytics

Stock management

Communication

Flexibility

Job description

If you love beauty, you're in the right place.

As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.

Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

Store Manager Overview

The Store Manager's main responsibility is to maximise sales and profitability whilst developing and retaining a high performing team.

About you

• Able to deliver a 'customer first' experience, demonstrating leadership to coach and motivate a team
• Able to understand and analyse commercial reports to drive business opportunities
• Able to identify key performance behaviours and competencies within a team
• Able to build strong working relationships with support office departments
• Strong prioritising and organisational skills
• Leads by example
• Values honesty and integrity in working relationships
• Flexible to meet rapidly changing priorities and deadlines
• Able to delegate tasks and follow up effectively to ensure completion

Role Responsibilities

• Coaching your team to ensure a 'customer first' experience is delivered consistently
• Ensuring consistent product training and knowledge to provide unbiased customer advice
• Exceeding sales targets and delivering LFL growth along with ATV, AUS and conversion
• Exceeding the company acquisition target for N.dulge
• Managing payroll spend within budget through effective scheduling and people planning
• Managing stock file accuracy - adhering to all stock handling policies to ensure stock accuracy and minimise stock loss
• Ensuring team awareness of sales targets, ATV, AUS and conversion targets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, focusing on their achievement
• Communicating clearly and concisely with all internal and external business partners to drive business opportunities
• Actively identifying innovative opportunities to maximise the business
• Confidently analysing all available business reports to review weekly, monthly and yearly performance
• Creating an inclusive, welcoming and approachable environment for employees to thrive in
• Coaching and developing the team to achieve their full potential
• Understanding and adhering to all Company policies and procedures

Space NK are an equal opportunities employer. Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK. If you want to find out more about us, what it is like to work for us, all about our benefits, and our pledges on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, please visit our website.

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Please note that our current system does not use an automated filtering system.

All applications made via the website, through a third-party website or in-store will be kept on file for a period of 12 months.

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