Retail Store Shift Supervisor

Lindt & Sprüngli USA; Carlisle (Cumberland County); On-site; USD 23,336 - 26,174; Full time

Job summary

A premium chocolate retailer in Carlisle, USA is seeking a Shift Supervisor to enhance customer experience and lead sales efforts. The ideal candidate will have proven sales skills and previous retail experience. Responsibilities include training staff, ensuring operational excellence, and meeting sales targets. Compensation ranges from $16.94 to $19.00 per hour, reflecting market conditions and individual qualifications. Join a dynamic team and contribute to a culture of excellence and growth.

Qualifications

• Proven sales background is essential for the role.
• Previous retail experience is preferred, especially in a specialty retail environment.
• Ability to regularly lift and move items up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Model understanding and commitment to sales mission.
• Assist with training and developing sales staff.
• Ensure operational controls comply with company standards.

Skills

Proven sales background

Ability to take direction and delegate

Basic math and/or accounting skills

Education

High School Graduate or equivalent

Job description

Position Purpose

Do you consider yourself a chocolate enthusiast? As a Shift Supervisor at Lindt USA, you will be joining a team that truly believes in you and your abilities to create a positive and engaging in-store experience for our customers. With Lindt Chocolate Shops across the U.S., our retail teams play an integral part in delivering a premium experience to our customers. It takes a positive, highly engaged, self-starter to satisfy our customers with every interaction. It is this passion for Lindt, knowledge of our product and commitment to our brand that keeps customers coming back time and again.

Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities

Sales

• Models understanding and commitment to the store's sales mission and effectively communicates the mission to staff in actionable terms.
• Assists with development of each team member's individual commitment to the achievement of store's sales results.
• Models and effectively supervises staff to ensure sales goals (including key performance indicators, ADS, UPT, conversion and other company sales standards) and external sales opportunities are achieved.
• Models Lindt standards through everyday activities (4 Moments of Influence, dress code, up-selling, commitment, passion, sales focus, drive).
• Monitors and escalates stock levels to Store Management in a timely manner to avoid out of stocks/overstocks/dated product.

Staff Development

• Support Store Manager with training sales staff in accordance with Lindt & Sprüngli guidelines and standards in order to insure a knowledgeable, friendly, well-trained staff.
• Help to train sales staff in accordance with company standards, insuring daily, weekly and monthly sales and operations are consistently achieved.
• Assist with training and developing staff sales techniques, insuring solid product knowledge is consistently demonstrated and the brand is accurately represented to the customer.
• Escalate issues to Store Management in a professional and timely manner.

Operational Controls

• Ensure store meets or exceeds company standards for operational controls and compliance.
• Inventory Control/Shrink
• Cash Management (POS, Paperwork, logs, policies & procedures)
• Comply with all Quality Assurance policies & procedures
• Maintain store cleanliness

Qualifications & Requirements

Skills & Knowledge:

• Proven sales background
• Ability to take direction and effectively delegate and execute through others
• Basic math and/or accounting skills

Experience

• Prior retail experience, preferably in a specialty retail environment
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 35 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Ability to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach with arms

Education

• High School Graduate or equivalent

Other Requirements

• Must be available to work nights, weekends (Saturday and Sundays) and Holidays

Total Rewards

Compensation: $16.94 - $19.00

Lindt USA’s salary range reflects market rates based on our size, revenue, and location. Starting pay is determined using a wide range of factors including, but not limited to, job-related skills, knowledge, and experience as well as market conditions. A bonus and/or long-term incentive may be included as part of this compensation package.

Lindt and Sprüngli is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, veteran status, or any other classification protected by state, local or federal law. Applicants for this position must successfully pass a background screening. All Lindt & Sprüngli (USA) Inc. properties are smoke and tobacco free.

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