Assistant Manager - Loughborough

ASSISTANT MANAGER

The Role

As a leading fashion retailer with stores throughout the UK, our client has a reputation for quality, value and exceptional service. This is a fantastic opportunity to join this expanding successful retailer. You will be a customer focussed manager, possess a passion for driving sales and profitability, with a dedicated approach to developing a great team.

The role requires a very customer focussed and sales driven manager. The applicant must have a good level of commerciality and be a lateral thinker that is always looking for ways to increase business; this may be building business to business links, expanding the formal wear reach or liasing with buying teams to increase stock levels of best sellers.

Key Responsibilities

• Team communication rewarding all company matters
• Training, developing and motivating your team
• Maintain store and visual merchandising standards to the highest possible levels
• Ensure that product knowledge is of the highest possible level in order to drive sales and deliver customer satisfaction
• Achieving store targets and KPI's on sales, profit and expenditure
• Ensuring excellent levels of service at all times
• Pro- active focus on driving sales opportunities
• Control of stock inventory to reduce stockloss

Ideal Candidate

• Commercial drive and awareness with the ability to identify potential sales opportunities
• Passionate about meeting customer expectations
• Ability to meet and exceed targets
• Strong commercial awareness to be able to deliver new sales opportunities for your store
• Lead by example with a ‘can do' attitude
• Ability to inspire your team
• First class communication skills
• Enjoy meeting targets and take pride in maintaining corporate image of the company
• Prioritise, forward plan and be a great organiser
• Ability to work on your own initiative
• Strong team leadership skills
• Ability to influence in order to achieve business goals

Our Client

As a leading Menswear Retailer with a network of over 90 stores throughout the UK our client offers a strong reputation for quality, value and exceptional customer service.

Our client with over 140 years of tailoring experience is well practiced in making people smart and comfortable whatever the occasion.

Our client also offers formal hire and are one of the top three suppliers in the country.

Our client is a great choice for anyone wishing to further their career by joining a stable, progressive retailer with a program of store refits and new store developments.