Assistant Store Manager I - CE UK Braintree Outlet (40 Hours)

The Assistant Store Manager leads the store with their Store Manager by maximizing store productivity and profitability through teambuilding and staff development, goal attainment, and by ensuring compliance with all Coach Standards., We are looking for an exceptional Assistant Store Manager that leads by example, sets the tone on the sales floor, and provides feedback to the store team that will result in exceeding Coach Service standards. In return you will be given the chance to lead an exceptional team and be part of a rapidly expanding modern luxury brand with the opportunity to advance your career., * Take ownership and accountability for store and support the Store Manager;

• Show leadership through role modeling Coach Service behaviors and Coach selling standards;

• Demonstrate empowerment to solve customer problems and meet customers’ needs;

• Inspire team to meet and exceed performance standards;

• Acts as advocate for the team, able to motivate others to achieve results;

• Communicates effectively with store manager, peers, supervisors, and corporate partners;

• Assists in developing plans to address key business issues, and utilizes plans to impact business and achieve desired results;

• Able to influence others to gain support to achieve goals and complete projects;

• Demonstrates effective time management skills., * Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.

• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.

• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.

• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person’s career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.

• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

• Experience in a retail service environment in a position of management;

• Knowledge of, and ability to use Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook;

• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and staff and manoeuvre the sales;

• Ability to work flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including nights, weekends and Public holidays.

Coach is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Coach at www.coach.com.

Req ID: 115293