The Assistant Store Manager assists the Store Manager in motivating and inspiring their team to achieve store productivity goals. They help the Store Manager to analyze week to date, period to date, and year to date sales, and develop action plans to drive top line sales. Other responsibilities include; managing payroll budgets to ensure the store's contribution is on target, ensuring the individual and collective skills of the team are utilized effectively, and both the staff and customer experience is positive. Assists Store Manager in recruiting and hiring appropriately to ensure the store is fully staffed at all times. Effectively manages store operations, ensuring consistency and compliance.
Work Environment
This job operates in a retail environment with merchandise displays and items available for purchase in inventory.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time retail store position, and hours of work and days may vary depending upon business needs. This position regularly may require long hours and frequent weekend work not excluding holidays.
Travel
This position may require some travel based on business needs.
AAP/EEO Statement
Cos Bar Retail provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Cos Bar complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Cos Bar Retail expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Cos Bar’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
PRINCIPAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in business or related discipline
Work Experience:
- 1-3 years’ experience in luxury retail store management
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Must be an excellent organizer and problem solver with strong management skills
- Proven track record of strong selling skills
- Possess strong interpersonal skills to communicate with confidence to both internal and external customers
- Proven experience in a fast-paced environment
- Strong people and managerial skills
- Strong knowledge of luxury skincare/fragrance and cosmetics industry
- Preferred experience and knowledge of all Microsoft software (i.e. Excel, word etc.) and email (Outlook), POS (Counter point)
COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
- Strategic Ability
- Supporting Vision & Purpose
- Customer/Client Focus
- Sound Business Judgment
- Leadership
- Decisiveness
- Financial Management
- Performance Management
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Motivating Others
- Drive for Results
- Dealing with Ambiguity
- Integrity and Trust
- Delegation
- Flexibility
- Ethical Conduct
- Communication Proficiency
- Detail Oriented