About the Role
As the Assistant Store Manager, you will support the Store Manager in leading the team in a fast-paced and exciting retail environment to deliver an unbeatable client experience. This role is an opportunity to bring your passion, share your knowledge, and make your mark at a leading global beauty retailer.
Responsibilities
- Utilize and exploit data to support operational decisions by working closely with the Store Manager and District Manager to develop strategies for business growth and conversion of sales.
- Drive a selling culture within your team to meet KPIs and promote Sephora's values.
- Motivate the team to consistently raise performance and capability.
- Support the development of internal talent.
- Implement a continuous improvement mentality within the team.
- Work in partnership with the wider team.
- Energize the team to deliver first-class customer service in a fast-paced environment.
- Lead your store to success by thinking creatively and working strategically.
- Support and lead your team to provide client-centric service that results in meaningful in-store experiences.
- Build brand loyalty and promote positive behaviors.
- Assist in managing the profit and loss of your store by monitoring shrinkage percentages and sales conversion.
- Promote the Sephora Collection brand.
- Forecast sales to maximize profitability.
- Drive operational incentives including brand events and training.
- Support visual merchandising changes to ensure the store represents cleanliness and the Sephora brand and culture.
- Maintain a strong and positive culture where everyone is valued, recognized, and enabled to succeed through feedback and career development, coaching, learning, and recognition.
- Monitor KPIs and help develop store talent.
Requirements
- 2-3+ years' 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.
- Hands-on leader who loves being on the sales floor to motivate, coach, and help team members succeed.
- Ability to attract, identify, and inspire talented employees.
- Strong emotional intelligence, communication skills, and the ability to influence team members at all levels.
- Enjoy a flexible work schedule and be able 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 excellent client service and experiential retail.
- Passion for supporting and leading teams.
- Passion for maintaining a strong and positive culture.
- Ability to think creatively.
- Ability to work strategically.
- Ability to continuously explore.
- Ability to measure performance, improve, and achieve Sephora's vision.
- Communication skills.
- Coaching skills.
- Feedback skills.
- Learning skills.
- Recognition skills.
Location
- Flagship Sydney CBD store
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- 2-3+ years' experience in retail/store line management
- Previous retail management experience at a big box retailer or multi-site experience
Benefits
- Opportunities for personal development in Australia and New Zealand
- Opportunities across Sephora's global group of high-end 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 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, a growing online platform, and plans to expand year on year.
- Sephora also has a head office based in Sydney CBD.
Equal Opportunity
- Sephora is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace for all.
- We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, or other employment practices.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.
- If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application.
- We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.
