Accessorize are seeking an experienced, organised and passionate Store Manager to join their team to cover maternity leave on a fixed 1 year contract. Your key responsibilities include: Drive the overall performance of the store, through managing and developing your team, demonstrating the Accessorize values and ensuring your store is delivering an exceptional customer experience Generating profit, through exceeding your KPIs, controlling costs inline with budget and maximising local market opportunities Ensuring your team are motivated and knowledgeable, supporting everyone to achieve excellence in their roles Maximise commercial opportunities to drive sales within your store, implementing Visual Merchandising and Window Guidelines to a high standard Accessorize offer piercing to their customers, and you would promote and deliver this with your team Be flexible in your approach to your role, supporting other stores and team members to achieve a common goal Ensure an inclusive environment, promoting equality and kindness with your team About You Demonstrate customer focus – ensuring delivering excellence in customer service, understanding the importance of delivering tailored one on one customer service and driving this through your team, always putting the customer at the heart of all that you do A confident leader, one who will inspire the team, leading by example to make Accessorize a great place for all who work and shop with there A proven track record of managing a successful retail store, delivering excellence in customer service, both personally and through their team Someone who demonstrates passion, drive and resilience, with a can – do approach Possess a creative approach, to support the store and develop the team to reach their full potential The ability to communicate openly and effectively A solution driven individual, with the ability to make decisions to benefit the business, with a sense of ownership to take responsibility You have previous retail management experience Your benefits would include: A competitive salary and exciting bonus scheme A Staff uniform allowance – enabling you to have fun wearing their accessories Generous staff discount across all our brands – Accessorize, Monsoon, Monsoon Childrenswear and Monsoon Home An additional day’s holiday to celebrate your birthday About The Company Their story begins with one man and his vision; to bring vibrant, colourful, hand-crafted artisan clothes from faraway places to the markets of London. Their founder, Peter Simon, returned from his life-changing adventures to pursue a new passion for beautiful, bohemian-inspired pieces with hand-printed, hand-woven and crochet design details, which he started to trade from a stall on Portobello Road, London. The first Accessorize store opens in London’s Covent Garden in 1984.