Deputy Flagship Store Manager

Job description

Leading the team with the store- and assistant store manager

• Help recruiting new employees according to a predefined profile and with the agreement of HR and retail manager
• Integrating and training new employees
• Passing the passion for the brand on to the team, to constantly evolve customer service
• Accompany and foster co-workers, to ensure they continue the acquisition of new skills and their employment during sales (selling skills, products, visual merchandising)
• Organisation and execution of meetings in collaboration with the store- and assistant store manager
• Regular evaluation of the performance, skills, and development of each co-worker by conducting MAG’s, etc.
• Paying attention to co-workers (praise success, discuss problems), to build up trust, as well as to build it out
• Take on a neutral role/referee in case of occurring conflicts
• Regularly organise meetings (minimum once a week)
• Motivating and empower co-workers on a daily basis, to reach monthly and quarterly primes.

 Sales management: boost sales

• Knowledge of different collections and products (tendencies, style, material, etc.)
• Constant monitoring, to ensure a unique purchase experience (availability of the team, quality of the customer care, speed of cashing in, role reversal within the team)
• Ensuring the regularly offered services to customers (repairs, exchange, vouchers, delivery by mail, etc.)
• Staying vigilant concerning eventual theft, so it can be prevented
• Tour-guide-business

Setting the scene for the brand (image, product, merchandising)

• Steadily monitoring, to ensure a safe, tidy, and clean store
• Monitor the overall comfort, to ensure the customer experiences it (atmosphere within the store, lighting, music, etc.)
• Organising and executing the presentation by respecting the norms of merchandising and guidelines (take on changes, depending on the store

 Leading the store in collaboration with the store- and assistant store manager

• Manage the contracts and plans under compliance of all social rules and norms, which are predefined by labor law
• Optimising expenditures, which can influence the operating statement (office supplies, telephone, etc.)
• Take on the role as a role model concerning the strict compliance of the cash register manual and different procedures in terms of money (bank statements, status of cash register, etc.)
• Analyse results based on collections and indicators, so a plan can be realised
• Ensuring the information flow and directing it to the hierarchy

Store organisation in collaboration with the store- and assistant store manager.

• Ensuring the perfect condition, maintenance as well as the necessary materials of the store
• Monitoring the organisation and clean-up of the material reserve as well as the back office according to the defined process
• Ensuring the logistical tasks (qualitative and quantitative control of deliveries, unpacking the packages and placement of wares within the store)
• Apply and respect the various specifications of the product flow (process of falsely delivered wares, transfers, defect wares, returns, etc.)
• Confirmation of ware-orders and ensuring the optimal replenishment of wares according to the analysis of the stock