Assistant Store Manager
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About the Role
Al-Futtaim Retail seeks an Assistant Store Manager to support store operations, drive sales, and ensure excellent customer service. You will oversee financial performance, inventory management, and team development.
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Responsibilities
- Lead, evaluate, and guide sales performance at the store level, suggesting strategies to meet sales targets
- Facilitate monthly category sales meetings, update staff on performance, and suggest improvement plans
- Execute strategies for exclusive products to meet sales goals, providing feedback on promotional effectiveness
- Initiate expense optimization plans and recommend measures to control store expenses
- Maintain shrinkage below tolerance levels by monitoring retail standards daily
- Oversee display implementation and timely restocking, ensuring availability
- Manage accurate inventory adjustments (GAP, Cycle Counts), adhering to service standards
- Ensure customer satisfaction surpasses expectations, handling queries and complaints professionally
- Promote loyalty programs, driving transaction participation
- Implement selling techniques to achieve conversion rates, communicate promotions regularly
- Validate proper execution of promotional activities and store initiatives
- Assist store manager with implementation of policies, brand standards, grooming guidelines, and internal control procedures
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in retail and team management, preferably in the beauty sector
- Good knowledge of the beauty industry and trends
- Proficiency in retail operational skills such as stock management, visual merchandising, and operational systems
- Strong computer skills
- Experience in management and people development
- Effective customer service and results oriented approach
- Leadership and problem solving skills
- Excellent relationship skills and integrity
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, proactive and team spirited, able to take initiatives
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Overview of the Role
- The Assistant Store Manager (ASM) is responsible for supporting the store manager in planning, controlling, and directing the store team to achieve the highest level of customer service standards and in store execution to deliver sustainable sales and profitable targets.
- The role requires strong communication, interpersonal abilities, and analytical skills to inspire exemplary customer service and meet business targets.
- The ASM oversees financial dimensions related to P&L and store KPIs such as UPT, ATV, SOP, SPSQFT, Audit, Compliance, and Shrinkage.
What You Will Do Profit Financial
- Lead, evaluate, and guide sales performance at the store level, suggesting strategies to meet sales targets.
- Facilitate monthly category sales meetings, update staff on performance, and suggest improvement plans.
- Execute strategies, ensuring full program implementation for exclusive products to meet sales goals, providing feedback on promotional effectiveness.
- Initiate expense optimization plans and recommend measures to control store expenses.
- Maintain shrinkage below tolerance levels by monitoring retail standards daily.
What You Will Do Commercial
- Oversee display implementation and timely restocking, ensuring availability.
- Manage accurate inventory adjustments (GAP, Cycle Counts), adhering to service standards.
- Ensure customer satisfaction surpasses expectations, handling queries and complaints professionally.
- Promote loyalty programs, driving transaction participation.
- Implement selling techniques to achieve conversion rates, communicate promotions regularly.
- Validate proper execution of promotional activities and store initiatives.
What You Will Do Process
- Support store manager with the implementation of policies, brand standards, grooming guidelines, and internal control procedures as per SOP.
- Assist store manager by demonstrating strong analytical skills and understanding of the system and reporting.
- Support store manager with monitoring store controllable expenses, supervise loss, asset protection, risk management, and accountability for inventory management.
- Liaise with mall management and handle store documentation, including daily reports, banking, refunds, exchanges.
- Conduct cashiering duties.
What You Will Do People
- Assist in planning and monitoring Personal Development Plans and role development interventions.
- Review and discuss performance appraisals and personal plans of direct reports.
- Implement action plans for employee engagement.
Required Skills To Be Successful
- Strong analytical skills and ability to understand retail systems and reporting.
- Leadership and people management skills to inspire team and drive performance.
- Customer service orientation with empathy and excellent problem solving abilities.
- Proficiency in retail operation processes including stock management, visual merchandising, and cash handling.
What Qualifies You For The Role
- Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in retail and team management, preferably in the beauty sector.
- Good knowledge of the beauty industry and trends.
- Proficiency in retail operational skills such as stock management, visual merchandising, and operational systems.
- Strong computer skills.
- Experience in management and people development.
- Effective customer service and results oriented approach.
- Leadership and problem solving skills.
- Excellent relationship skills and integrity.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, proactive and team spirited, and able to take initiatives.
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