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Employer Description:
Our client a premium Luxury Fashion brand is looking for an Assistant Manager for a brand new store opening in Dublin.
Our client is one of the market leaders in the premium fashion and luxury goods market. The brand portfolio covers all the key fashion segments ranging from classic tailored fashions, evening and casual fashion to shoes and leather accessories as well as licensed perfumes, watches, eyewear and children's fashion. They have more than 1,400 stores in over 80 countries and are heavily involved with the sponsorship of various athletic and cultural events.
Description: * Demonstrable success gained as a Assistant Manager/Supervisor with a recognised brand
* Previous experience in managing a team
* Understand and represent the brand attributes
* Ability to lead, motivate, train and develop a team through active management
* Excellent communication skills. With the ability to communicate with senior members of staff both written and verbal
* Enthusiastic, self-confident and self-motivated
* Pays close attention to detail, accuracy and is analytical
* Willing to adapt and take on new challenges and is driven to continually improve
* Always presents a professional image
* Ambition and drive to achieve company sales targets
* Ability to plan work for the team in order to achieve the company goals, with the ability to delegate where necessary
* Ability to multi task and prioritise workload effectively
* Knowledge of constraints and analyses risks
* Ensure all team/department reporting is completed on a timely basis
* Prepared to go the extra mile to achieve targets
* Seeks opportunities to be proactive and pre-empt client needs
* Demonstrates respect and politeness and regularly exceeds customer expectations
* Liaises frequently with customers to keep them fully informed
* Show innovation and initiative in setting customer care standards
* Influencing and communication skills
* The capacity to establish credibility and authority quickly
* Strong sales flare
* Self motivator and leader
Responsibilities: They are looking for an Assistant Manager to co-manage their new store in Dublin. Reporting to the Store Manager, you will be responsible for:
* Be really sales focused and proactively achieve sales targets for the month
* Ensure the team offers exceptional personal service to all customers
* Support Store Manager with Store Operations
* Management of rotas to ensure all areas, shifts & peak trading periods are covered
* Supervision of your team, ensuring 100% efficiency and effectiveness
* Assist Sales Associates in the selling process whenever needed, and ensure that their product knowledge is up-to-date
* Ensure that Sales Associates achieve high results in mystery shops
* As Assistant Store Manager you will be responsible for supporting the Store Manager with the development of your people: regularly meet one-to-one with each Sales Associate, using coaching skills to improve sales & service performance
* Daily team briefings on product knowledge & performance, motivating team to even greater achievements
* Assist with the overseeing standards in Store including: visual merchandising, stock control, staffing rotas, housekeeping, customer service, and promotional activity
* Excellent preparation for all critical activity: seasonal sales uplifts, Sale periods, large deliveries, etc
* Management of till and all monies in the store
* Minimise staff turnover by building a high-performance motivated team
* Liaison with key departments in Head Office
Requirements: Due to the extremely high volume of applicants for this role, we will only be able to contact successful candidates.
If you are able to offer all the above and would like to discuss this career opportunity as an Assistant Manager in Dublin in more detail, please apply with your CV immediately.
