Assistant Store Manager

Clarks Outlet; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 20,000 - 29,000; Part time

Job summary

Clarks Outlet in Amsterdam is seeking an Assistant Store Manager to support the Store Manager and lead the sales team. The role requires driving sales, coaching staff, and maintaining excellent store standards.

You will deputise for the Store Manager as needed, ensuring smooth daily operations and a positive shopping environment for customers and colleagues alike.

Qualifications

• Good retail experience including in a management role, leading a team.
• Strong coaching skills.
• Effective communicator who can provide clarity to individuals or teams on what is required and why.
• Inspire and motivate a store team with pride, passion and energy.
• Proficient in supporting people-processes and team development.
• Experience delivering and exceeding sales and targets.
• Proactive with good organisation to initiate tasks without direction.
• Good commercial skills.
• IT proficient with a range of store systems.
• Knowledge of Visual Merchandising.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate excellent selling behaviours and role model to the sales team.
• Support the Store Manager to engage, coach and develop the team to hit targets.
• Oversee the sales floor with strong Floor Control skills.
• Review CSAT insights to improve customer experience and store ops.
• Assist in delivering store operations and Visual Merchandising standards.
• Upskill in product knowledge to drive sales.
• Organise tasks to meet business needs while protecting sales and service.
• Provide regular feedback to motivate and improve performance.
• Support Store Manager with people issues to avoid escalation.
• Build capability to manage store in the Store Manager’s absence.

Skills

Retail management

Coaching

Communication

Motivation

Team development

Sales targets

Organisational skills

IT proficiency

Visual Merchandising

English proficiency

Tools

POS systems

Job description

Assistant Store Manager - Amsterdam The Style Outlet

18 eur/hour

Contract: 32/38 hrs per week

Support the Store Manager to manage all aspects of the store operations and lead the sales team members to ensure commercial objectives are achieved
DeputisingStore Manager absence when required.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate excellent selling behaviours, being a role model to the sales team to consistently deliver personal key performance indicators
• Support the Store Manager to engage, coach and develop the team to ensure the store delivers its sales targets and related key performance indicators.
• Oversee the sales floor, demonstrating excellent Floor Control skills to ensure the store is great place to shop.
• Consistently review and utilise store CSAT insight to identify actions to improve the customer experience and store operations
• Support in the delivery of store operations and Visual Merchandising principles to deliver best practice retail standards and create the required shopping experience
• Continually upskill in knowledge of our products to be a product expert, role modelling and educating the team to utilise product knowledge to drive sales
• Organise and prioritise required tasks to ensure business needs are met whilst protecting sales and service in store
• Provide regular feedback to the team to motivate and engage to improve performance where required.
• Support the Store Manager with managing people issues as they occur to avoid escalation into more complex issues
• Build capability and understanding to effectively manage all aspects of the store in the absence of the store manager

Qualifications/Experience

• Good retail experience including in a management role, leading a team
• Strong coaching skills
• Effective communicator who can provide clarity to individuals or teams on what is required of them and why
• Ability to inspire and motivate a store team through injecting pride, passion and energy into creating a positive working environment.
• Proficient in supporting people-processes and team development
• Good experience in delivering and exceeding sales and targets
• Proactive with good organisation skills to initiate completion of tasks without direction or supervision
• Good commercial skills
• IT proficient with the ability to use a range of systems to manage in store activity
• Good knowledge of and experience in Visual Merchandising
• Proficiency in English needed for roles outside the UK and RoI