Sales Supervisor - Part Time

FashionUnited; Schaumburg (IL); On-site; USD 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Lacoste is seeking a Sales Supervisor for our Schaumburg, IL store to lead the sales floor and deliver exceptional customer experiences. You will drive sales, mentor staff, and uphold brand standards in a fast-paced retail environment.

You’ll coach associates, analyze trends, manage stock and promotions, and build lasting client relationships to grow the business while embodying Lacoste’s core values.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of retail sales experience.
• Strong selling skills focused on client development.
• Excellent communication skills are required.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with ability to respond to trends.
• Good leadership and motivational skills to lead a team.
• Sporting spirit with drive to meet goals.
• Innovative thinker to push the brand forward.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional, excellent customer service.
• Generate sales by targeting new customers and building loyalty.
• Lead and motivate the sales team to achieve store objectives.
• Coach and train staff on best sales practices.
• Ensure fitting rooms, merchandize, and stock presentation meet standards.
• Implement and monitor the store's sales strategy and promotions.

Skills

Retail sales

Client development

Communication

Leadership

Entrepreneurial mindset

Sporting spirit

Innovative thinking

Job description

"Lacoste is a lifestyle brand, born of the inventiveness of a tennis champion, René Lacoste, who created the first polo shirt ever, initially for himself and for his friends, to be both relaxed and elegant on and off the tennis courts.Nicknamed the Crocodile by the press in the late 1920's when he was a multiple Grand Slam tennis champion, René Lacoste had the animal embroidered on the blazer he wore on court, before making it the logo of his famous polo shirt.Crocodile brand is today present in 120 countries through a selective distribution network. Two Lacoste items are sold every second in the world.As an international Group gathering 10,000 women and men, Lacoste offers a complete range of products: apparel, leather goods, fragrances, footwear, eyewear, home wear, watches and underwear, all of them being elaborated in the most qualitative, responsible and ethical way. In 2017, the Brand garnered a turnover of 2 billion euros."

A sales supervisor is responsible for ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction through excellent sales performance. Leading by example, the sale supervisor plays an important role in driving the stores’s business effecting company values and service standards.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Provide a professional and excellent level of customer service with existing and new customers.
• Generate sales by identifying appropriate business targets. Build new customer base to maximize sales. Retain existing customers by providing by developing trust and strong client relationships.
• Demonstrate clientele skills through customer outreach and ward-robing skills.
• Lead, direct and motivate the sales team in order to achieve the overall corporate sales objectives.
• Delegate functions and tasks to team associates.
• Implement the sales strategy plan.
• Execute floor leadership—own the sales floor with the Store Manager; greet all customers in a professional, friendly, and timely manner, including answering phones and directing customer inquiries.
• Coach and train retail sales staff on best sales practices.
• Identify current and future trends that appeal to the consumer.
• Ensure that the fitting rooms are ready for customers by promptly clearing our merchandise and returning it to the proper area of the selling floor.
• Ensure merchandise is clean and ready to be displayed.
• Develop product knowledge by completing e-learning modules and training with the SM or ASM in order to communicate it to the customer.
• Adhere to loss prevention and inventory control and compliance procedures.
• Ensure promotions are accurate and merchandised to company standards.
• Monitor local competitors.
• Handle customer questions, complaints, and issues.
• Support and reinforce positive employee relations through leading and developing a quality store team, and communicate and partner with the Store/Assistant Manager on coaching and conflict resolution.
• Perform all other duties as assigned and required.
• Hold store keys and regularly participates in store opening and closing functions.

Requirements / Qualifications

• A minimum of 2 years sales experience in retail.
• Strong selling skills with an emphasis on client development.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to react to business trends and identify areas of opportunity.
• Good leadership and motivational skills as to effectively lead a team.
• Sporting Spirit - must possess a competitive edge and drive to meet goals.
• Innovative thinker that will drive our brand forward.

Core Values and Traits

Accountable

• Providing answers to questions
• Propose solutions
• Integrating our role as a global economic player

Collaborative

• Succeeding together
• Working together
• Sharing information
• Trusting each other

Caring

• Respecting our people
• Caring for customers
• Different points of view
• Diversity
• Concerned by others

Audacious

• Taking risks
• Being creative & innovative
• Following the less taken path
• Creating value

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive. They can be changed orally or in writing at any time by the discretion of management. We as Lacoste associates must always ensure that all functions of our position are represented with our core values being: Accountable, Collaborative, Caring and Audacious.

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