Manager Designate
Location: Kingston
The Role:
The Manager Designate will be ‘A Cut Above’ in supporting the business, maximising sales turnover and profitability by achieving targets, minimising costs and delighting customers whilst setting standards within the store and being a role model to your team. Consistently deliver to the company expectations on sales and service, operations and product through the implementation of best practice and the continual development of the store team.
The Manager Designate displays exceptional leadership style, leads from the front and holds colleagues accountable for both performance and behaviours.
Manager Designate Top 10 Competencies:
1. Meets and exceeds store targets, drives performance by reviewing and analysing performance v target, completing SMART action plans to address any underperforming areas.
2. Consistently manages the sales floor as the daily priority, ensuring sales opportunities are grasped and maximised, ensures that windows are actively managed and clients are approached in a non-business way by the most appropriate, capability tested team member.
3. Exceptional at stock management, ensuring that best practice stock controls are maintained and that stock loss is at, or below the company average.
4. Secures merchandise by complying with security systems and measures, ensures all colleagues are fully trained on security procedures.
5. Maintains the highest standards for store and colleague presentation, upholding the luxury brand image, working with facilities to maintain store fabric and highlight any repair or renewal of assets where required.
6. Effectively manages the rota system and ensures staffing levels are maintained to offer the best service whilst staying with budgeted parameters. Effectively manages labour through consistent policy application for timekeeping and absence.
7. Maximises the sales performance of the store by utilising all commercial reports available before making commercial decisions. Effectively plan and arrange in store events to drive sales.
8. Identify new business development areas in order to increase sales, including continuous competitor analysis and action planning with SMART objectives. Launches all Sales and Marketing campaigns as directed by the Support Centre.
9. Creates an exciting culture of delighting customer. Manages external feedback sites (Google reviews etc) to promote our ‘A Cut Above’ philosophy. Is responsible for increasing client base & drives actions to increase customer loyalty. Monitors and attends to all customer complaints in an efficient and professional manner.
10. Develops store succession plans through effective and timely recruitment, regular 121s, coaching logs, and development of the team to achieve their goals.
Benefits:
11. Competitive Salary days annual leave increasing 1 per year with every 1 years' service
12. Your Birthday off
13. Unrivalled career opportunities
14. Full Academy Training & further sponsorship
15. Industry leading bonus package
16. Private Healthcare
17. Life Assurance of three times your salary
18. Generous staff discount for you and your friends and family across Chisholm Hunter
We have the highest of standards and expect this of our colleagues as a prerequisite. We seek like-minded, competitive, driven, commercial and people focused leaders to share our journey. In return, you will get fantastic guidance and support from our central team across Finance, HR, Marketing, IT and our Workshop as well as some of the best experience in the industry in our Retail Support Team.
If you’re proud of your past achievements and are keen to be ‘A Cut Above’ in supporting the business to maximise sales, and delight our clients, then please apply now, we would love to hear from you!
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent