Assistant Store Manager

REI; Seattle (WA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading outdoor retail co-op as an Assistant Store Manager in Seattle. You will lead a dynamic team, manage store operations, and cultivate a customer-centric culture while ensuring operational excellence and employee engagement. Leadership and communication skills are vital to drive the success of the team and deliver on business goals.

Benefits

Generous employee discount

Access to health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Accrued time off

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of successful retail management experience.
• Enjoys communicating and building relationships.
• Uses business understanding and innovative thinking to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to ensure successful execution of retail operations.
• Engage in creating a positive employee experience focused on retention.
• Use tools and financial reports to increase store performance.

Skills

Team Management

Communication

Problem Solving

Customer Engagement

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Overview

REI Co-op is united around discovering, building and celebrating better ways of working in this world, all so that folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors, for people and our planet.

Overview

REI Co-op is united around discovering, building and celebrating better ways of working in this world, all so that folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors, for people and our planet.

Our team seeks an Assistant Store Manager to direct the store management team to ensure the successful execution of all functions associated with running a retail profit center. You’ll manage a team of department managers and staff to deliver on REI business and service goals. With your dynamic leadership style, recognizing and rewarding team members will deepen engagement and cultivate TEAMWORK! You are an energetic and visible manager!

Responsibilities And Qualifications

How you will be successful:

• Communicates with store team, partners, vendors, and customers.
• Manage and delegate planned priorities to Department Managers and Shop Service Managers.
• Engage in creating a positive employee experience focused on engagement and retention.
• Manage expenses and operational excellence.
• Make business adaptations that result in increased sales and service.
• Uses tools and financial reports to increase store performance and maximize results.
• Inspire a customer-centric culture by recognizing and rewarding team.
• Develop top performers and evaluate performance, give coaching and appropriate level of feedback.
  
  
  

Bring your passionate, authentic self

We lead with our values, and we are creating a culture that inspires and enables everyone to bring their whole self and their highest ambitions to work every day, so that we can achieve more outside together. Join us in seeking, creating, and building new ways to work.

Your qualities:

• 3-5 years of successful retail management experience.
• Enjoys communicating and building relationships, both inside and outside the organization. 
• Open to feedback and other viewpoints in the spirit of supporting the business. 
• Uses business understanding, innovative thinking, and sound judgment to solve problems. 
• Makes solid recommendations by combining information from various sources.  
• Produces quality work by setting effective goals and establishing priorities. 
• Organizes and uses resources to meet deadlines, keeps others in the loop about plans and progress.  
• Engages and influences others to accomplish worthwhile organizational goals.
  
  
  

Closing

At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all. We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization. We know that there's strength in our diversity - that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.

Pay Transparency

We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.

REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off. Click here for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.

Pay Range

$41.84 - $52.33 per hour

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Retail

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