Retail Store Shift Supervisor

Lindt; Kittery, Northern (ME, KY); On-site; USD 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Lindt USA, a premium chocolate retailer, is seeking a Shift Supervisor to lead in-store customer experiences and drive sales excellence. You will guide a team, maintain product knowledge, and uphold Lindt standards across daily store operations.

This role focuses on coaching staff, meeting sales goals, and delivering exceptional service to customers. The position requires a hands-on leader with a proven sales background and the ability to manage stock, customer service, and compliance.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Meet or exceed store sales plans and contribute to district sales targets.
• Monitor stock levels and coordinate with management to prevent outages.
• Train and develop sales staff per Lindt guidelines to maintain product knowledge and customer focus.
• Support training of staff in sales techniques and product knowledge; escalate issues professionally.
• Ensure operations meet Lindt standards and maintain inventory controls and cash handling procedures.

Skills

Sales background

Delegation

Basic math

Education

High School

Job description

Who We Are

At Lindt, we are a global fast‑growing consumer goods company, enchanting the world with premium chocolate. We are driven by our passion for excellence and go the extra mile ensuring that every Lindt experience is nothing short of exceptional. Our collective efforts are geared towards making a positive impact, not only in the world of premium chocolate but also in the lives of our employees, customers, and communities. Our company embraces a culture defined by the core values of Excellence, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Responsibility, and Collaboration, fostering a dynamic and collaborative environment where these principles drive our success.

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 Ensure store meets or exceeds weekly, monthly, annual sales plan and consistently contributes to the district's achievement of the sale's plan. 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 insure 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: $15.10 - $18. Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. The company will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas. 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 and may be required to pass drug screenings as well.

Company Culture

Wspłą dźr–a do realizacji ambitnych celów, czerpiąc siłę z naszego celu i wyjatkowej kultury opartej na wewnierskiej oraz wzajemnym wsparciu – zakorzenionej w bogatej tradycji, a jednoczeńce – rozwijająca, by wyznaczać nowe standardy. W naszych zrośńnych lokalnych zespołach myścimy globalnie i dzialamy lokalnie – dając ludziom przenienie do rozwijania, przejmiania odpowiedzialnosą i wspłnego kształtowania zrośńnego przyszłości. Jesteśmy odpowiedzialnym pracodawcą pierwszego wyboru, który tworzy inspirujące doznanie pracownicze. Razem budujemy zaufanie, napędzaňamy innowacje i rozwijamy sę – jako jednostki i jako organizacja. Grupa Lindt & Sprżngli od ponad 180 lat zachwyca sów czekoladą. Ta szwajcarska firma z długą tradycją, wywodzało s z Zurychu, jest globalnym liderem w segmencie czekolady premium. Obecnie Lindt & Sprżngli produkuje swoje wiośs w 12 fabrykach w Europie i Stanach Zjednoczonych. Produkty firmy są sprzedawane za pośrednictwem 41 spókek zależnych i oddziałów, w ośrodka 620 wośnych sklepów oraz poprzez sieców około 100 dystrybutorów na całym świecie. Zatrudniając ok. 15 500 pracowników, Grupa Lindt & Sprżngli osówińa w 2025 r. sprzedaż na poziomie 5,92 mld CHF. Nasze zaangałowanie w budowaniu zrośńnego przyszłości stanowi jeden z kluczowych filarów dzielać i ambicji firmy. Od 2008 r. Program Lindt & Sprżngli Farming Program jest naszym standardem odpowiedzialnego pozyskiwania kakao.