Assistant Manager - Westgate Centre
- Grande Prairie, AB, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- A current or former retail employee with 1-3 years of retail management experience.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you’re choosing a different path. From day one, we’ve been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season.
We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we’re family.
About The Role
As an Assistant Manager, you set the tone for the store and the team and help bring our brand to life for our customers. You’re responsible for driving profitable sales growth through all aspects of the store including; customer and product operations, merchandising, and talent development. You are responsible for supporting the execution of the store strategy to achieve performance goals. Through collaboration with your General Manager and/or Assistant General Manager, you will teach and coach behaviors to Leads, Experts and Brand Associates to cultivate a high performing team to deliver a best-in-class experience to our customers.
What you'll do
- Support strategies and processes to drive store sales and deliver results through a customer centric mindset.
- Recruit, hire and develop highly productive Brand Associate and Expert teams.
- Own assigned area of responsibility.
- Implement action plans to maximize efficiencies and productivity.
- Perform Service Leader duties.
- Ensure consistent execution of standard operating procedures.
- Represent the brand and understand the competition and retail landscape.
- Promote community involvement.
- Leverage omni-channel to deliver a frictionless customer experience.
- Ensure all compliance standards are met.
- A current or former retail employee with 1-3 years of retail management experience.
- A high school graduate or equivalent.
- A good communicator with the ability to effectively interact with customers and your team to meet goals.
- Passionate about retail and thrive in a fastpaced environment.
- Driven by metrics to deliver results to meet business goals.
- Determined to effectively lead and inspire others to learn and grow through coaching and mentoring.
- Agreeable to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including holiday, evening, overnight and weekend shifts.
- Able to utilize retail technology.
- Able to maneuver around the sales floor, stockroom and office and lift up to 30 pounds.
- Ability to travel as required.
- Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Athleta, 30% off at Outlet, and 10% off markdowns at Gap, Banana Republic and Outlet.
- Competitive Paid Time Off plans.*
- Company match for donations and volunteer time*
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee stock purchase plan.*
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
- Virtual health care 24/7*
- Maternity/Parental Top Up.*
- See more of the benefits we offer.
- For eligible employees
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Responsibilities
Support store strategies that drive profitable sales, improve customer experience, and achieve performance goals across store operations, merchandising, and product operations. Recruit and develop team members, coach leaders and associates, implement efficiency plans, ensure compliance and standard procedures, and support community involvement and omni-channel service.
Requirements
Applicants should have 1–3 years of retail management experience and a high school diploma or equivalent. They should be effective communicators and leaders, comfortable with metrics and retail technology, able to work a flexible schedule and travel as required, and able to move around the store and lift up to 30 pounds.
Skills
- Retail Management
- Sales Growth
- Customer Service
- Team Leadership
- Recruiting
- Hiring
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Talent Development
- Merchandising
- Store Operations
- Performance Management
- Productivity Improvement
- Omni-Channel Retail
- Compliance
- Communication
- Retail Technology
Benefits
- Merchandise Discount
- Paid Time Off
- Donation and Volunteer Time Matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 24/7 Virtual Health Care
- Maternity and Parental Top-Up
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Retail
- Management & Leadership
- Sales
- Customer Service & Support
- Human Resources
Keywords
- Retail
- Store Management
- Profitable Sales Growth
- Customer-Centric Service
- Customer Operations
- Product Operations
- Merchandising
- Talent Development
- Store Strategy
- Performance Goals
- Recruiting
- Hiring
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Service Leader
- Retail Landscape
- Community Involvement
- Omni-Channel
- Compliance
- Retail Technology
- Flexible Scheduling
- Team Development