Assistant Store Manager - Newbridge Co. Kildare

Murphy Home; Newbridge; On-site; EUR 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff discounts

Bonus scheme

Educational support

Employee assistance programme

Bike to work scheme

Career development

Job summary

Murphy Home in Newbridge is seeking an Assistant Store Manager to support the Store Manager in leading the sales team, driving store growth and delivering outstanding customer experiences.

This role covers our Newbridge outlet as needed and requires a proactive leader with strong communication, rostering, and product knowledge to ensure excellent service and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience in furniture retail sales preferred but not essential.
• Experience managing a professional sales team preferred but not essential.
• Strong communication and selling skills.
• Flexible retail schedule including weekdays, weekends, and holidays is required.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to close performance gaps.
• Strong Admin / PC skills - comfortable with Excel.

Responsibilities

• Create an engaging, positive working environment and a strong selling culture.
• Demonstrate the Company’s values in the performance of all job functions.
• Support the Store Manager by driving sales and increasing overall store performance by building and maintaining a high-performing sales team.
• Support the Store Manager by providing engagement leadership as a coach and mentor for the store selling team.
• Ensure the store represents our brand and supports excellent customer experience.
• Interact professionally with customers and other departments to resolve orders and customer situations.
• Train and update Sales Advisors on products, store policies, and daily operations.

Skills

Sales leadership

Customer service

Communication

Scheduling

Retail operations

Excel

Tools

Excel

Job description

About Murphy Home:

Established in 1974, Murphy Home (previously Michael Murphy Home Furnishing) is Ireland’s leading independent, family-owned furniture retailer. With six stores nationwide and a strong, award-winning online presence, Murphy Home offers a curated range of quality furniture and home accessories designed to bring style and comfort to Irish homes.

The Newbridge Assistant Store Manager supports the Store Manager with managing the sales team to obtain maximum store growth and will also be required to cover our outlet store (Newbridge) when necessary. This role creates a customer experience resulting in complete customer satisfaction while meeting guidelines. This position assures that the store achieves sales and our customer service standards. The Assistant Store Manager strives to create an inspirational, fun, and productive culture.

This role comes with a salary of OTE €40,000 per annum.

Reports to: Store Manager

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Create an engaging, positive working environment and a strong selling culture

• Demonstrate the Company’s Values in the performance of all job functions.

• Support the Store Manager by driving sales and increasing overall store performance by building and maintaining a high-performing sales team.

• Support the Store Manager by providing overall engagement leadership by acting as a coach and mentor for the store selling team.

• Ensuring that your store represents our brand and your skills to your customers and the community at large by creating and maintaining a store that supports our excellent customer shopping experience

• Effectively interacting in person and on the telephone with customers and various departments in the resolution of sales orders and customer situations.

• Training and updating Sales Advisors on all products, store policies, and analyzing daily business to ensure efficient operations.

• Manage staff rostering to match staffing level requirements

• Responds in a professional and courteous manner to escalated customer service inquiries, requests or complaints to reach an effective resolution

• Create and maintain the visual presentation of the store by coordinating furniture and accessory placement in accordance with our standards, organize and implement floor moves

• Manage and resolves all delivery related queries

• Manage all warehouse related tasks

• Manage other tasks assigned by the Store Manager.

• Adhere to company Health and Safety standards

Qualifications and skills:

• 3+ years of experience in furniture retail sales in a commission-driven environment is beneficial but not essential.

• A minimum of 2 years’ prior experience managing a professional sales team in a furniture retail environment is beneficial but not essential.

• A competitive and resilient spirit with the drive to succeed

• The ability and willingness to work a flexible retail schedule which includes weekdays, and weekends, and bank holidays is required.

• Outstanding oral and written communication skills

• Proven ability to close performance gaps

• Strong Admin / PC skills - comfortable in a technology-driven business, strong skills in Excel

Why Join the Michael Murphy Home Furnishing Team?

• We are a well-established company with 50 years in business

• We’re fun and have a positive work environment

• Culture of developing and promoting from within the company.

• We're dynamic and expanding

• Our Generous staff discounts

• Our Bonus Scheme

• Our Educational Support Scheme

• Our free Employee Assistance Programme

• Our wellbeing initiatives like our Bike to work scheme

• Career Development Opportunities

• Continuous professional development with dedicated training resources

• We are a well-established company with 50 years in business

• We’re fun and have a positive work environment