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Assistant Store Manager
Carter Kidz
Ottawa, CAN
Full Time
Manager
Onsite
1 weeks ago
Customer ServiceLeadershipMerchandisingInventory ManagementMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft Excel
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About the Role
Carter's is seeking an Assistant Store Manager to lead retail operations, drive sales, and foster a welcoming environment. You will manage teams, execute merchandising standards, and ensure exceptional customer service.
Key Skills for This Role
Customer ServiceLeadershipMerchandisingInventory ManagementMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft Excel
Responsibilities
- Execute workforce management to ensure genuine customer focus on the sales floor
- Welcome customers and provide assistance with product styles, features, and benefits
- Foster a positive, safe, and inclusive environment for employees and customers
- Model service standards and omnichannel experience while coaching others
- Analyze business and drive KPIs with the team
- Assist Store Manager in recruiting, hiring, training, and development of store team
- Plan, track, analyze, and report tasks and financial results using Company tools
- Partner with Store Manager to execute merchandising standards and promotional planning
- Build customer loyalty through Company sponsored programs
- Reduce loss through customer service, education, and operational controls
Requirements
- Minimum of 1 year of retail or related management experience
- High school diploma
- Ability to lift 40 pounds and stand/walk for extended periods
- Proficient computer and technology skills (Outlook, Excel, Web navigation)
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
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Role Overview
- As an Assistant Store Manager, you will be the first face of the brand for growing families.
- You'll congratulate new parents, introduce them to baby essentials, and help prepare them for school and other milestones.
- We're looking for a leader who fosters a welcoming and inclusive environment.
What You'll Do
- Execute workforce management to ensure a genuine customer focus on the sales floor.
- Welcome customers with a warm greeting and provide assistance with product styles, features and benefits.
- Foster a positive, safe, and inclusive environment for employees and customers.
- Consistently model service standards and omnichannel experience while coaching others.
- Effectively analyze the business and take necessary action to improve results by communicating and driving KPIs.
- Assist the Store Manager in building and retaining a successful team by participating in recruiting, hiring, training, and development.
- Recognize exceptional performance and redirect employees when needed.
- Plan, track, analyze, and report completion of tasks and financial results utilizing Company tools.
- Partner with Store Manager to plan and execute merchandising standards, promotional planning, markdown execution, and product placement.
- Build customer loyalty through Company sponsored programs.
- Reduce loss through a consistent level of customer service, education, and operational controls.
Qualities We'd Love in a Candidate
- A positive and solutions oriented mindset.
- Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated leadership, supervisory, and customer engagement skills.
- Proficient computer and technology skills (Outlook, Excel, Web navigation, etc.).
- Minimum of 1 year of retail or related management experience.
- A high school diploma.
- Ability to lift 40 pounds as needed, with frequent bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
- Ability to stand or walk for extended periods; climb up and down a ladder.
- Availability that may include days, nights, weekends, and holidays as scheduled, with a minimum of two closing shifts a week.
Benefits We Love
- Schedules that fit your life.
- Health benefits, mental health benefits, a 30% discount on our brands, referral bonuses, and much more.
- Paid time off, holidays, and parental leave, as well as adoption assistance, charitable matching gifts.
- Professional and personal development programs.
Compensation
- Compensation ranges from CAD 19.00 CAD 25.10 per hour based on experience and location.
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