Assistant Store Manager - Customer Experience

Health & Wellness Benefits
* Pet Smart does Anything for Pets - JOIN OUR TEAM!  Assistant Store Manager Customer Experience  About Life at Pet Smart  Our associates are the heart of Team Pet Smart. Together, we're building the best team in retail through our values-based culture, connection, and teamwork. Our goal is to create a culture where associates learn and grow together, thrive as effective teams, and challenge each other to be the best they can be.
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Paid Weekly
Health & Wellness Benefits
* Group Registered Retirement Plan (RRSP) with company match
Paid Time off for full-time associates
Associate discounts
Tuition Assistance
Career pathing
Development opportunities

Job Summary  Pet Smart’s Experience Leader (ELR) is responsible for providing exceptional leadership and service to our pet parent while upholding the company’s vision, mission, values, and strategy. This role is expected to provide exemplary leadership for the store by driving the pet parent experience through culture and strategies, achieving targeted results. This role has shared responsibility for the safety of people and pets, efficient execution of daily tasks and financial outcomes.
Essential Responsibilities  Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following and may vary depending on store characteristics and needs:
People Leadership   Participates in employment decisions such as recruiting, interviewing, hiring, coaching, and terminating.
Facilitates the associate experience and supports associate development. This includes but is not limited to associate reviews, recognition, team events, labor management, training, onboarding, mentoring, succession planning, and coaching for growth.
Address and administer associate complaints and grievances.
Prioritize, delegate, and validate daily tasks for associates to meet business and pet parent needs.
Lead and coach associates on proper processes to ensure pets in our care are safe and healthy.
Coordinates staffing coverage for experience activities in pivotal areas of the store.
Effectively communicates company information and priorities to associates to ensure alignment and deliver on expectations.
Delegate and validate completion of daily tasks including engagement videos.
Address and administer associate complaints and grievances.
Recognizes and celebrates associates driving overall associate engagement.
Overall Store Experience   Leads the associate and pet parent experience at all levels and ensures pets in our care are safe and healthy.
Responsible for the pet parent experience and outcomes conducted over the telephone, in person or online, and responding to general and escalated pet parent’s concerns.
Assists with reservations in hotels, salons, and training.
Oversees the pet parent experience across Pet Smart services (salon, training, hotel and day camp), live pet sales and adoptions.
Evaluates operations and seeks opportunities to continuously improve experiences and services.
Accountable to the successful execution & experience of store events and marketing (adoptions, hotel, salon, etc.)
Maintains store standards and leads a culture of empowerment by ensuring compliance with our policies and procedures (P&Ps) and code of ethics.
Responsible for conducting monthly Services Walks to validate proper execution of policies and procedures.
Responsible for taking immediate action when a sick/injured pet is identified in the store; transport to the vet as needed.
Shared responsibility with store opening and closing procedures to ensure we uphold our brand promise.
Business Management   Drives and identifies opportunities to grow the business and hold associates accountable in achieving store P&L expectations such as sales and shrink targets.
Manages expenses such as labor and supplies and any other relevant store metrics.
Leverages home office partners and resources to submit and follow up on store related work orders and purchase card allocation.
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