Senior Sales Associate - UDP - Main Market

Kushals Fashion Jewellery; Udupi district; On-site; INR 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Kushals Fashion Jewellery is seeking a Senior Style Associate in Udupi district, Karnataka, who will lead customer-focused initiatives while driving sales and maintaining operational excellence. Key responsibilities include tailoring customer interactions, achieving sales targets, and adapting to change.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong retail background with proven sales success and a positive attitude. The role offers the chance to mentor team members and excel in a dynamic retail environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum HSC with 2 years of retail experience or Graduates with 2 years of retail experience.
• Proven track record of exceeding sales targets.
• Flexibility to work varied shifts.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong customer relationships.
• Achieve store sales targets through effective selling techniques.
• Adapt to changing customer needs and share insights with the team.
• Make sound operational decisions independently.
• Prevent shrinkage and manage inventory processes.
• Train and mentor team members for improved performance.

Skills

Customer relationship management

Sales techniques

Team mentoring

POS systems proficiency

Visual merchandising knowledge

Microsoft Office skills

Education

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

Graduate degree

Job description

Job Title: Senior Style Associate

Department: Retail Stores

Reports To: Store Manager

Role Summary: The Senior Style Associate leads by example, delivering exceptional customer experiences, driving sales, and ensuring operational excellence with a customer-focused mindset and adaptability.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Focus: Build and maintain strong customer relationships by understanding their preferences and providing tailored solutions, addressing issues professionally and ensuring customer needs are met, gathering customer feedback to improve products and services while addressing any concerns promptly.
• Sales Mastery: Responsible for achieving store sales targets, drive solution-based sales by understanding customer needs and offering relevant products and services, focus on selling higher-value products to increase the average transaction value, use upselling and cross-selling techniques to enhance customer engagement and meet sales targets, demonstrate negotiation and objection-handling to convert prospects into loyal customers.
• Flexibility and Change Management: Adapt to changing customer needs and share product and customer insight with the team, demonstrate problem‑solving skills to address challenges and manage resistance effectively, show learning agility by quickly adopting new processes or strategies to improve sales and service.
• Decision‑Making: Utilize analytical thinking to make sound operational decisions, independently manage store operations in the absence of the Store Manager, ensuring smooth functioning.
• Store Operations Excellence: Prevent shrinkage by closely monitoring inventory levels and minimizing discrepancies, assist the Store Manager in managing inventory processes, including replenishment, stock takes, and tracking product turnover, ensure accurate inventory records and adhere to operational guidelines to maintain efficiency, follow company policies, work processes, and enforce store SOPs, Escalate any identified bottlenecks.
• Leadership Excellence: Take charge of situations requiring immediate attention, including escalated customer issues, and ensure professional resolutions, lead by example in fostering accountability, goal‑driven performance, and ethical practices within the team, assist in training and mentoring new and existing team members to improve their understanding of products and services.

Candidate Requirements

• Min HSC 2 years of retail experience; Graduates with 2 years of experience in retail.
• Must be above 20 years of age and below 35 years of age.
• Basic computer skills and microsoft office.
• Proven track record of exceeding sales targets consistently.
• Experience in providing exceptional customer service and building strong customer relationships.
• Experience in mentoring team members.
• Experience in handling cash transactions and inventory management.
• Proficient in POS systems and other relevant retail technologies.
• Knowledge of visual merchandising principles.
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Excellent presentation and grooming standards.
• Flexibility and adaptability to work varied shifts.