Assistant Store Manager

Columbia Sportswear Company; Gonzales (LA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Disability

Employee discounts

Generous time off

Job summary

Columbia Sportswear Company is seeking an Assistant Store Manager to join our Store Leadership Team. You will assist the Store Manager to ensure effective store operations, drive sales, and increase profitability while modeling leadership and delivering exceptional customer service.

You will help interview, hire, train, and coach staff, manage inventory, and implement plans to achieve store goals. This role requires strong communication and a willingness to work a flexible retail schedule.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a store leadership role or similar.
• Experience operating a POS system and in-store computer systems.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Comfort with a flexible retail schedule and physical tasks.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction to store staff, including supervisors and associates.
• Support plans to improve employee productivity and performance.
• Assist Store Manager in interviewing, hiring, training, and coaching staff.
• Coach staff on day-to-day performance to meet standards.
• Maintain inventory levels and communicate effectively about replenishment and shrink control.
• Help develop action plans to address sales, safety, training and personnel development.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Customer service

Education

High School Diploma or GED preferred

Tools

POS System

In-store Computer Systems

Telephone

Job description

About The Position

With over 430 retail stores worldwide, our Store Leadership Teams are essential to our business. From ensuring effective store operations, strategies, and procedures, to guiding and developing team members, our Store Leadership Teams help create memorable customer experiences while supporting and helping drive the company’s mission of “Connecting Active People with Their Passions.”

About The Position

With over 430 retail stores worldwide, our Store Leadership Teams are essential to our business. From ensuring effective store operations, strategies, and procedures, to guiding and developing team members, our Store Leadership Teams help create memorable customer experiences while supporting and helping drive the company’s mission of “Connecting Active People with Their Passions.”

As an Assistant Store Manager, you will be a key member of the Store Leadership Team, and you will assist the Store Manager to ensure effective store operations. This role executes strategies to improve customer service, drive store sales, and increase profitability. Serving as a positive role model and leader, this position will support the Store Manager in cultivating a collaborative team environment and delivering exceptional customer service.

How You’ll Make a Difference

• Provide leadership and direction to store staff, including supervisors and associates.
• Execute and support plans to enhance employee productivity and performance.
• Assist the Store Manager in interviewing, hiring, training, and coaching staff, as necessary.
• Provide coaching and direction on a day-to-day basis to ensure staff performance standards are met.
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels through effective replenishment, organization, shrink control, and communication.
• Assist the Store Manager with the development and implementation of action plans to address any issues relating to store sales, goals, safety, training, and personnel development.

YOU HAVE

• No specific education required (High School Diploma or GED preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in position or specialization
• Skill operating a Point of Sales (POS) system, other in-store computerized systems, and telephone.
• Ability to use judgment to identify and resolve day-to-day technical and operational problems.
• Effective communication skills; able to exchange ideas and information with the store leadership team, associates, and consumers.

JOB CONDITIONS

• Frequently in an active environment (i.e., requires the ability to constantly move about) that can be physical or strenuous (frequently adjusting/moving items weighing up to 40 lbs.), may frequently use specialized equipment, may have exposure to dust and noise.
• Occasionally requires the ability to work in a place.
• Ability to communicate clearly with others.
• Availability to work a flexible retail schedule, which may change seasonally and in response to location-specific business trends or forecasts. All local, state, and federal laws are adhered to when evaluating your availability.

Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding.

Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community.

• 401k plan plus a generous company match.
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life Insurance
• disability
• flexible spending accounts
• health savings account
• accident
• critical illness
• hospital indemnity
• legal services
• EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services.
• employee discounts
• generous time off program

We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.