Assistant Manager
Foot Locker
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Job Description
Overview
You enjoy coaching and teaching your team to continually improve how they deliver a great in-store Customer Experience, and you’re now ready to start leading the team with all aspects of the Customer Experience, including: store operations, training, employee management, visual merchandising, and asset protection. In the absence of the Store Manager, you will assume all managerial duties. Your performance will be measured by your ability to drive sales and maximize profit goals for a specific store.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Artificial intelligence is not used for the process of screening, assessing, or selecting applicants.
Responsibilities of an Assistant Manager
- Coaching, and motivating your team to drive sales that deliver exceptional customer service.
- Ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by being knowledgeable on all products offered, and teaming up with co-workers to provide excellent sales service.
- Delivering sales, customer experience, merchandising, visual, and operational expectations.
- Act as a partner between customers, sales associates and store leadership.
- Ability to learn and share expertise of products and trends to fit customer’s needs.
- Maintains an awareness of all product knowledge, and current or upcoming product / trends.
- Contributes to a positive and inclusive work environment.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated leadership ability with at least 1 year of experience in a customer-facing sales setting.
- Confident and comfortable engaging customers to deliver an elevated experience.
- Motivated to achieve great results because of one's enthusiasm from interacting with customers and athletic products.
- Is resourceful and versatile in responding to changing demands and opportunities in a rapidly changing omni-channel retail environment.
- Initiates completion of tasks or activities without necessary supervision.
- Strong cognitive and mathematical skills, including problem analysis, decision making and financial analysis.
- High level of ethics, values, integrity, and trust.
- Flexible availability - including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Benefits
- Rate of Pay: $23.10 / hour.
- 30-50% Employee Discount.
- Paid Time Off.
- Life, Medical and Dental Coverage.
- Defined Contribution Plan.
- Development and Advancement Opportunities.
Key skills/competency
- Retail Management
- Customer Service
- Sales Leadership
- Team Coaching
- Visual Merchandising
- Store Operations
- Inventory Management
- Sales Generation
- Problem Solving
- Financial Analysis
How to Get Hired at Foot Locker
- Research Foot Locker's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Customize your resume to highlight leadership, sales, and customer service experience relevant to an Assistant Manager role at Foot Locker.
- Showcase retail passion: Demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for athletic products and the retail customer experience during your application and interview.
- Prepare for behavioral questions: Be ready to share specific examples of your leadership, problem-solving, and team-building skills in a retail setting.
- Highlight operational acumen: Emphasize your ability to manage store operations, visual merchandising, and financial analysis to align with Foot Locker's needs.
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