About the Role
As the Assistant Store Manager, you will support the Store Manager in leading the team in a fast-paced retail environment to deliver an unbeatable client experience. This role is crucial for driving business growth, meeting KPIs, and fostering a positive team culture.
Responsibilities
- Utilize data to support operational decisions and develop strategies for business growth and sales conversion in partnership with the Store Manager and District Manager.
- Drive a selling culture within the team to meet KPIs, promote Sephora's values, and motivate team members.
- Consistently raise the performance and capability of the team to support internal talent development.
- Implement a continuous improvement mentality within the team.
- Energize the team to deliver first-class customer service in a fast-paced environment.
- Assist in managing store profit and loss by monitoring shrinkage, sales conversion, and forecasting sales.
- Drive operational incentives including brand events, training, and supporting visual merchandising changes.
- Maintain a strong and positive culture where everyone is valued, recognized, and enabled to succeed through feedback, career development, coaching, learning, and recognition.
- Monitor KPIs and help develop store talent.
Requirements
- 2-3+ years of experience in retail/store line management.
- Previous retail management experience at a big box retailer or multi-site experience.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and business management skills.
- Ability to attract, identify, and inspire talented employees.
- Strong emotional intelligence, communication skills, and the ability to influence team members at all levels.
- Ability to work weekends, before/after store hours, and evenings.
- Provide 5 full days of availability across key trading times, including late-night and weekend availability.
Skills
- Passion for supporting and leading teams to provide client-centric service.
- Passion for creating meaningful in-store experiences to build brand loyalty.
- Passion for promoting positive behaviors.
- Skills in managing store profit and loss.
- Skills in monitoring shrinkage percentages.
- Skills in sales conversion.
- Skills in promoting Sephora Collection.
- Skills in sales forecasting.
- Skills in driving operational incentives.
- Skills in supporting visual merchandising changes.
- Skills in maintaining a strong and positive culture.
- Skills in providing feedback, career development, coaching, learning, and recognition.
- Skills in measuring performance.
- Skills in improving performance.
- Skills in achieving Sephora's vision.
- Skills in monitoring KPIs.
- Skills in developing store talent.
- Passion for excellent client service and experiential retail.
- Hands-on leadership style.
- Ability to motivate, coach, and help team members succeed.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to influence.
Location
- Warringah Mall
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Fixed-Term
Experience Level
- Retail/Store Line Management
Benefits
- Opportunities for personal development in Australia and New Zealand.
- Opportunities across Sephora's global group of luxury brands.
- Gifted products throughout the year.
- Store discounts of up to 45% off.
- Paid Parental Leave.
- Birthday Leave.
- Personal Leave.
- Mental Health wellbeing programs available 24/7.
- Life insurance.
- Fun social calendar.
About the Company
- Sephora believes that beauty thrives in diversity and discovery.
- Sephora's purpose is to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the ExtraOrdinary in each of us.
- Sephora is a leading global beauty retailer.
- Sephora is part of the Global Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey Group, the world's largest luxury goods conglomerate.
- Sephora has circa 36 stores across Australia and New Zealand.
- Sephora has a growing online platform and plans to expand year on year.
- Sephora has head office based in Sydney CBD.
Equal Opportunity
- Sephora is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace for all.
- Sephora does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, or other employment practices.
- Sephora celebrates diversity and is committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.
- Sephora will make every effort to ensure needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment for candidates requiring reasonable adjustments.
