icebreaker : Store Manager - Queenstown TouchLab

Icebreaker; Queenstown; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discount program

Leadership development program

Global organisation

Job summary

Icebreaker is seeking a Store Manager for our Queenstown TouchLab. You will lead and motivate a team to crush sales targets, drive performance, and deliver exceptional customer experiences in a competitive New Zealand retail environment.

You will manage stock, merchandising, and store operations, ensuring the brand’s standards are upheld while fostering a fun and supportive team culture. This role offers significant bonus potential and opportunities within a global organisation.

Qualifications

• Inspire and train your team to be selling superstars.
• Practical understanding of NZ retail and customers.
• Sound judgement and decision‑making skills.
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills.
• Passion for apparel and a good eye for visual merchandising.
• Effective stock management skills.
• Great sense of humour and ability to create fun.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Queenstown TouchLab to drive sales and customer satisfaction.
• Motivate, develop and inspire the team to crush sales goals and elevate performance.
• Oversee stock levels, visual merchandising and store presentation to reflect the Icebreaker brand.

Skills

Leadership

Sales

Team Training

Stock management

Communication

Visual merchandising

Education

NZ retail knowledge

Job description

YOU WERE MADE TO LEAD!

Are you a Store Manager who is adventurous, passionate, authentic and a sales superstar, who has what it takes to run a successful retail business, then this amazing role will give you the opportunity to lead and manage our Queenstown TouchLab. You'll be responsible for motivating, developing and inspiring your team to crush sales goals and elevate their individual performance.

• Competitive base salary and significant bonus potential
• A world-class leadership development program - the sky is the limit
• Supportive and collaborative environment who wants to help you succeed
• An incredible discount program
• Direct line of communication with senior leadership
• Opportunities within a truly global organisation

Do you have what it takes? Determination & grit to knock targets out of the park Motivation to hit sales targets and drive your store to great results!

• Skills and experience to inspire and train your team to be selling superstars
• A practical understanding of NZ retail and customers
• Sound judgement and decision‑making skills
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills
• A passion for apparel and a good eye for visual merchandising
• Effective stock management skills
• A great sense of humour and an ability to create fun

Great opportunity working 40 hours a week, including one weekend day. Free To Be, our commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Action

As a purpose‑led, performance driven company, we strive to foster a culture of belonging based on respect, connection, openness, and authenticity. We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our associates, allowing them to bring their authentic selves to work every day. Our products are born in nature and worn in nature. This is a rich and fulfilling mission we are on - we want to inspire people to get out into nature, connect with nature, understand how awesome nature is, and reap the benefits from nature through the performance apparel we create.

This might just be what you have been looking for a real story, seriously awesome products, and the potential to earn what you are worth.

MORE THAN A JOB, AN ADVENTURE WHEN YOU JOIN ICEBREAKER YOU JOIN A COMMUNITY

We’re a community of passionate, authentic and adventurous achievers bringing quality, performance apparel to the world, ethically and sustainably. In 1995 we pioneered the merino performance apparel industry from New Zealand’s windy little capital. Today, we’re a global brand with teams in NZ, Australia, USA, Canada, Germany, France and Switzerland. Together we’re pushing the boundaries of natural fiber and stocking more than 5000 stores across 50 countries.

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The continued success and growth of VF is enhanced through initiatives that promote diversity throughout VF around the world.

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