Assistant Store Manager

Originally selling workwear to local mariners and practical overalls to artists our story began in a small shop in Penzance in 1981. Over the years weve grown into a leading UK lifestyle brand with over 80 shops across the UK and Ireland 400 wholesale partners and a thriving online business but never losing touch of our roots. Our passion for well-crafted clothing exemplary customer service and connection to our local communities drives everything we do.

As we continue to grow in the UK and internationally we are focussed on delivering excellence across every touchpoint whether that is at our warehouse in store or through our customer service channels building a team that shares our values. Each employee plays a part in the success of Seasalt and this was evidenced by our Drapers Award win of Best Place to Work.

Our Assistant Store Managers are part of the Store Management team helping to build a successful business maximising profitability and driving KPI targets. They support with all aspects of running a Seasalt store and encourage the team to deliver the high standards our customers expect. This role has the opportunity to be a great stepping stone in your retail career with many of our Assistant Store Managers going on to be Store now have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Store Manager to join the Rushden Lakes team on a 40 hour permanent help us by:

Assisting the Store Manager in creating a service culture within the store team that puts the customer at the heart of everything they do Enabling the store team on how to recommend additional services to drive sales such as omni-channel selling gathering customer data and recommending add-on purchases

Supporting the Store Manager with recruitment working together to build a diverse and passionate team Being a great role model driving store sales profitability and consistent KPI achievement understanding what is required to drive performance

Coaching and developing the store team through regular 121s supporting with development plans when appropriate

Communicating store performances to your team and key stakeholders around the business providing regular feedback highlighting any risks and opportunities to sales for the business

Implementing store visual merchandising windows standards and guidelines and utilising all product categories and bestseller information to maximise commercial opportunities within the store

Utilising all product information to maximise sales opportunities

Managing store operations such as management of stock loss prevention escalation and incident reporting health and safety GDPR cash handling key holder responsibilities and store safety standards amongst others

Being a key-holder for the store and having sole responsibility for running the store when required

The skills youll be sharing with the team:

Leading the way with your exceptional retail skills product knowledge and commercial know-how youll be passionate about inspiring your team to exceed sales and maximise profitability. You will have previous experience in leading a team at supervisor level or above preferably in a retail or equivalent environment where you drove key KPI achievement and managed responsibility of leading the store to support the Store Manager wont phase you as you will be passionate about the successful running of the store.

Coaching and developing your team will be really important to you and is key to this role youll be an excellent communicator who can build a culture of trust. Finding solutions comes naturally to you and you wont be afraid to share your ideas thinking differently on how to achieve we hope youll love working with us:

The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We dont just want to…