Vans Assistant Store Manager - Newmarket [New Zealand]

 

Since 1966, Vans has been the original action sports shoe, footwear and clothing company. We are grounded in youth, authenticity and individual style. Heavily involved with international skating, surfing and music cultures, we are globally recognised and firmly believe in loving what you do! Today, the Vans brand evolution continues. From its foundation as an original skateboarding company, to its emergence as a leading action sports brand, to its rise to become the world's largest youth culture brand. These are our people. This is our story. This is OFF THE WALL!

The Role:
As an Assistant Store Manager based at our Newmarket store, you will be working closely with your Store Manager to drive sales in a high-performing and fast paced store.
As we continue to experience growth within the Australian and NZ community, we’re looking for career-retailers and brand ambassadors who are eager to make an impact in their career by demonstrating their business, sales, influencing and relationship-building skills to their team through their leadership.

A Typical Week:

• Represent yourself through your own uniform and fashion-style on Monday-Friday as well as your favourite Activewear on weekends
• Opportunity to create new friendships with a likeminded team who also love fashion, fitness and building genuine relationships with their customer
• Be mentored and upskilled by down-to-earth and fun Area Managers who are passionate about your development and growth within the business
• Exposure to a diverse customer profile including frontline workers (health, retail, hospitality), fitness-enthusiasts and, those wanting to wear Activewear to brunch!
• Ensure efficient operation of your store to achieve optimal results in sales targets, KPI’s, store presentation, visual merchandising, stock levels, wage control and shrinkage
• Motivate your team to achieve optimal results in KPI’s & added value targets across stores
• Closely monitor store sales to achieve daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly targets - acknowledge outstanding results and identify any areas of missed opportunity
• Effectively manage the wage costs in store, adhering to weekly wage targets and company rostering standards
• Coach and mentor, your team to maintain high team morale and encourage their individual development by ensuring training and succession plans are in place
• Ensure efficient OH&S management and adhere to state and national OH&S legislation

Benefits & Culture:

• 40% off Accent Group brands | Hype DC, Skechers, Platypus, Vans & many more
• Sunday to Thursday roster – two consecutive days off in a row to maintain a healthy work life balance
• Access to our ‘Employee Benefits’ program which includes discounted Gym Memberships & Health Insurance packages
• Work amongst premium product alongside fellow passionate and dedicated sneakerheads
• Training & development to grow your career
• Opportunity to join the Future Leaders program which includes leadership training workshops, yearly global conferences, awards nights and much more

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Demonstrated experience as a full time / senior casual sales assistant, key holder, supervisor or 3IC
• A motivated & driven ‘Make it Happen’ attitude
• A passion for leading & inspiring a team to succeed
• A proven track record in driving sales and meeting KPI’s and targets
• Operational excellence and experience with stock control and visual merchandising

At Accent Group Limited we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and inclusion. We believe in the diversity of our people across age, gender, identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical and mental ability. We strive on creating an equal employment environment where everyone from any background can be themselves.

The Accent Group acknowledges, and pays respect, to the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of the land. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori people.

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