Store Manager

Store Manager Required - Cambridge - Paying 27-29K PA

Are you a unconstrained manager?

This retailors adventurous spirit leads them beyond the High Street to destinations lesser known. For clothes that mean more. That add to the story of our lives. This retailer believe that demographics divide, age is just a state of mind and body type is what each one of us sees in the mirror.

A family-run business that creates collections for the free-spirited, independent woman.

The successful candidate will have worked in the fashion or design industry or in a similarly creative business in a retail division.

Role:

• Provide inspirational leadership
• Lead by example with all company policies, from timekeeping to dress code
• Update the store team on all things; from business performance to product and season launches
• Manage all staff processes including recruitment, development and training, performance and disciplinary

• Improve the commercial performance of the store by increasing its turnover and maximising profitability;
• managing stock levels and making key decisions regarding stock control
• Drive sales and forecast future sales volumes; analysing and interpreting trends to facilitate planning
• Use IT systems to record sales figures for data analysis and forecasting
• Overall responsibility for sales and reporting/analysing any distinct changes in sales performance
• Improve the commercial performance of the store by increasing its turnover and maximising profitability procedures
• Provide exemplary customer service at all times
• Respond appropriately and timely to in-store customer enquiries
• Ensure first class store standards are maintained at all times
• Awareness of market trends in the retail industry, understanding forthcoming customer initiatives, and monitoring what local competitors are doing
• Implement and maintain all operational standards including, but not exhausted to: staffing rotas, stock takes, visual merchandising
• Highlight changes to improve the business e.g. managing store expenditure to reduce costs; review opening hours to ensure the store can compete effectively in the local market
• Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the store in accordance with overall Company policy
• Ensure store takes balance, maintain overall responsibility for banking and petty cash expenditure

Whats in it for you:

• generous holiday allowance
• 50% Staff Discount
• monthly sales commission (when targets reached)