About the Role
Hermès Canada is seeking a Sales Manager to lead sales and customer experience in the store, ensuring excellence in client service and motivating the sales team to achieve targets and manage their development.
Responsibilities
- Actively present on the floor to drive store sales and exceptional customer experience.
- Coach sales team members through real-time feedback and formal performance reviews.
- Train and motivate the team, fostering team spirit and a positive environment for achieving sales objectives and delivering high-quality service.
- Act as a role model during selling interactions.
- Ensure a welcoming environment in line with company standards.
- Create and present daily briefs to the associate team for open communication, continuous learning, and motivation.
- Attract, develop, and retain clients for the boutique.
- Act as an ambassador of Hermès, demonstrating excellence in all interactions.
- Handle difficult customer interactions while maintaining brand values and confidentiality.
- Ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
- Assist team members in the selling process and other sales floor operations.
- Plan and coordinate sales floor coverage to ensure associate presence for customer service and loss prevention.
- Recruit sales associates and organize their onboarding and integration.
- Partner with the Operations team and Store Leadership to exceed Hermès guidelines, standards, and objectives.
Requirements
- At least 5-10 years of retail management experience.
- Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service with a strong record of superior sales results.
- Recognized ability to manage, coach, and develop employees.
- Humble, hands-on, and lead-by-example leadership style.
- Excellent communication skills with strong business partnering abilities across the company.
- Professional, team player, positive attitude, and open to new ideas.
- Open availability to meet the needs of the business.
Skills
- Sales management
- Customer service excellence
- Team leadership
- Employee coaching and development
- Sales performance management
- Client relationship management
- Brand ambassadorship
- Communication
- Business partnering
- Loss prevention
Location
- Toronto
- Montréal
- Vancouver
- Calgary
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-10 years retail management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 – $130,000
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Long-term disability
- Life insurance
- AD&D
- Company group retirement saving plan
About the Company
- A creator, artisan and seller of high-quality objects since 1837, Hermès is an independent, family-owned French house that employs nearly 27,000 people worldwide.
- Driven by its permanent entrepreneurial spirit and consistently high standards, Hermès cultivates the freedom and autonomy of each individual through responsible management.
- The company perpetuates the transmission of exceptional know-how through strong territorial anchoring that respects people and resources.
- Sixteen artisanal métiers feed the creativity of the house, whose collections are presented around the world.
- Hermès Canada has had a presence in Canada since 1987 and has over 150 employees.
- At Hermès Canada, we are committed to being a Maison for All, a home where we make efforts to generate, support and advance the values of diversity and inclusion, both within our own walls and in the wider world.
- We look to create a diverse workforce of talented and unique individuals with different backgrounds, skillsets and worldviews that will enrich our family.
- We support our individual team members’ personal and professional success through a culture that values equality, individuality, and fairness and through an environment where individuals can thrive and feel comfortable being their authentic selves.
Equal Opportunity
- Hermès Canada is committed to being a Maison for All, a home where we make efforts to generate, support and advance the values of diversity and inclusion, both within our own walls and in the wider world.
- We look to create a diverse workforce of talented and unique individuals with different backgrounds, skillsets and worldviews that will enrich our family.
- We support our individual team members’ personal and professional success through a culture that values equality, individuality, and fairness and through an environment where individuals can thrive and feel comfortable being their authentic selves.
