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About the Role

As an Assistant Store Manager, your mission is to lead with a customer-first mindset, deliver great in-store experiences, and inspire your team to achieve this every day. You will partner with your Store Manager to inspire your team to deliver excellence in every customer interaction, driving the team with passion and purpose, coaching them to cultivate high performance. You will assist in overseeing the day-to-day operations of your store, manage the team to achieve financial budgets and targets, and ensure visual merchandising excellence. In the absence of the Store Manager, you are the first point of contact for your team, ensuring our customers receive great in-store service that meets the high standards of JD Sports.

Responsibilities

Lead with a customer-first mindset, coaching and inspiring your team to create exceptional customer experiences that build loyalty.
Drive store performance and deliver results to financial budgets and targets, maximizing sales and profitability by analyzing data and reports.
Prioritize time, tasks, and processes for the best return on investment with an in-depth knowledge of retail operations.
Create a positive and motivating store environment that inspires high performance.
Nurture a strong and positive culture where everyone is valued, recognized, and enabled to succeed through feedback, coaching, training, and recognition.
Attract, recruit, and develop top talent for your store.
Oversee the day-to-day operations of your store.
Manage the team to achieve financial budgets and targets.
Ensure visual merchandising excellence.

Requirements

Rostered across Sunday to Thursday with varying shift times.
Availability to work across specified days.
Ability to partner with the Store Manager to inspire the team.
Ability to drive the team with passion and purpose.
Ability to coach the team to cultivate high performance.
Ability to assist in overseeing day-to-day operations.
Ability to manage the team to achieve financial budgets and targets.
Ability to ensure visual merchandising excellence.
Ability to be the first point of contact in the Store Manager's absence.
Ability to ensure customers receive great in-store service.
Consent to a VEVO Check to verify working rights.

Skills

Customer-first mindset
Coaching
Inspiring teams
Sales analysis
Data analysis
Retail operations
Time management
Task prioritization
Process management
People management
Recruitment
Talent development
Visual merchandising

Location

Australia
New Zealand

Work Type

Full-time
Rostered

Experience Level

Assistant Store Manager

Benefits

Training and development opportunities
Opportunity to progress across all areas of the business
Attractive staff discount (also for friends and family)
Employee Assistance Program
Mental Health champions
One month paid parental leave for full-time employees

About the Company

Known best as the 'Undisputed King of Trainers', JD Sports reigns supreme as one of the biggest and best global Sports Fashion brands across footwear and apparel.
Founded in 1981 in Greater Manchester, UK, JD Group has achieved remarkable growth through rapid global expansion, now standing as the leading global sports fashion retailer.
With over 3,400 stores worldwide, JD Sports strives to inspire the emerging generation through a captivating connection to the universal culture of sport, music, and fashion.
JD Sports launched in Australia and New Zealand in 2017 and has since grown to over 70+ stores.
JD Sports operates across NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA & TAS, with exciting plans for continued expansion.
JD Sports' mission is to offer unparalleled service and style to all consumers, bringing this to life by offering access to the biggest brands, the best products, and a memorable experience.
Working at JD Sports is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of challenging the norm.
JD Sports does not conform; they create their own path and are elite within their field.
JD Sports is seeking energetic, focused, and passionate individuals to join their team.

Equal Opportunity

JD values diversity and inclusion and champions a culture where everyone feels valued, included, and celebrated.