Part Time Floor Leader - Portland

Lush-Cosmetic; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Lush-Cosmetic in Portland, OR seeks a Floor Leader to support the Store Management Team across sales, operations, and customer experience. You'll drive sales on the shop floor, lead training sessions, and help ensure a world-class store environment that reflects our brand values.

On a day-to-day basis you'll coach a team of Sales Ambassadors, analyze sales results, manage cash handling, and collaborate to open/close the store.

Responsibilities

• Driving Sales: Use StoreForce dashboard results to coach sales team and adjust shop floor to meet/exceed goals.
• Customer Experience: Deliver world-class customer service on the shop floor, including product demos and consultations.
• Building the Brand: Educate customers on Lush values, fighting animal testing, ethical buying, vegetarian, handmade, naked packaging, and community engagement.
• Product Passion: Increase product knowledge and consistently make informed recommendations.

Job description

As a Floor Leader, you'll play a vital role in supporting the Store Management Team across all areas of the business. This includes everything from driving sales and opening/closing the store to analyzing sales results and leading training sessions. Together with your fellow leaders, you'll work to ensure that every aspect of the store is firing on all cylinders, creating an exceptional customer experience, a happy and motivated staff, and operational excellence that would make even the most detail-oriented among us proud.

Your day-to-day will be spent on the shop floor, where you'll lead and inspire a team of sales associates to achieve and surpass their goals. By fostering a culture of passion and positivity, you'll help create a work environment that's both productive and fun, resulting in happy customers and happy employees. The Floor Leader role is all about making the world a better place one soap at a time!

Responsibilities:

• Driving Sales: Utilize the StoreForce dashboard results to provide effective coaching and feedback to the sales team, and make necessary adjustments to the shop floor structure to meet and exceed sales goals. Take ownership for your results and actively work to grow the contribution of your segments to the store’s overall sales. Celebrate sales achievements with your team!
• Customer Experience: Lead by example in delivering a world-class customer experience on the shop floor, including product demonstrations. Observe and listen to consultations, collaborate with your team, and strive to exceed daily sales goals. By fostering a culture of excellence in customer service, you'll drive sales, create a loyal customer base, and build a positive reputation for your store.
• Building the Brand: Educate customers on Lush brand values, and articulate our position on Fighting Animal Testing, Freshest Cosmetics, Ethical Buying, 100% Vegetarian, Handmade, and Naked Packaging in the shop and through community engagement, hosting store parties, and other traffic-driving initiatives.
• Product Passion: increase the depth of your product knowledge through constant learning and consistently make informed product recommendations for every need.

Team Involvement:

• Development: Train and coach Sales Ambassadors and peers on effective sales techniques and product knowledge to improve their performance, support the growth of your team, and to increase sales. Lead by example, take ownership of your development, assess your performance, and actively seek feedback, resources, and opportunities to improve and elevate your skills, knowledge and abilities.
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Encourage open communication and actively listen to team members perspectives related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). Foster a sense of belonging by promoting teamwork, encouraging collaboration, and recognizing and valuing each employee's unique contributions.

Operational Excellence:

• Cash Handling and Store Opening/Closing: Manage cash handling, including customer transactions, opening/closing the register, reconciling cash drawers, preparing nightly deposits, and securing the store at the end of each day. As required at your store location,