Size? - Assistant Manager

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Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
Entry level
Fashion • Sports • Wearables
The Role
The Assistant Manager will support the store manager in driving sales, maximizing profitability, and delivering exceptional customer service. Key responsibilities include team management, customer relations, stock management, KPI monitoring, and training new staff. The role requires strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to meet company standards and business goals.
Summary Generated by Built In

Established in 2000, size? specialises in supplying the finest products from the best brands in footwear, apparel, and accessories. Initially set up to trial edgier product collections before introducing them to the mass market through the JD fascia, the size? offer has since grown to include its own roster of highly sought-after, worldwide exclusive product releases. size? has grown to have stores in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Europe, and Canada.

Managing the store team, you will focus on driving sales and maximising store profitability while providing industry-leading service on the high street. You will continue to exceed your stores KPIs and maintain the company standards while following company guidelines. Most importantly you will represent the business in the most professional manner.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Work alongside the store manager to ensure the team delivers exceptional customer experiences.
  • Key holder - assist in the opening and closing of the store and money handling.
  • Deal with customer complaints and enquiries, providing the best possible outcome.
  • Monitor the service of the sales team daily to ensure that targets are achieved, and where possible exceeded.
  • Use business knowledge and reports to assist in product placement of key selling lines.
  • Ensure the management of deliveries and stock handling in a timely manner, adhering to all stock control procedures to minimise stock loss and maximise profits.
  • Uphold Company standards and act as a mentor, leader, and positive role model to others, building and maintaining strong relationships that work collaboratively towards the common business goals.

General:

  • Conduct yourself in a way that always represents size? in the most professional manner.
  • Ensure daily briefs and all relevant Head Office communications are shared and understood by all members of your team.
  • Implement and delegate tasks with close follow up but lead by example with a hands-on approach.
  • Aid with the induction and training of new starters, alongside the training and development of all existing colleagues to meet the company’s expectations.
  • Daily tasking requirements and replenishment systems, ensuring the sales floor is always replenished.
  • Conduct your work in a safe and responsible manner.
  • Continually engage with the visual team to develop merchandising skills, standards and commercial opportunities.
  • Understand KPIs - Footfall, ATV, USP and Conversion and how to apply this to a store environment. Using these figures to drive, and where possible, exceed targets.


Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed:

  • The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in the size? brand and the products we specialise in.
  • Confident in communicating with our variety of consumers and always providing them with exceptional customer service.
  • Experience in a supervisory role is preferred but not essential as a full induction and training and development program will be provided.
  • Ambition, resourcefulness and someone who is looking for opportunities to learn more.
  • Strong work ethic, places importance on effective time management.
  • Self-motivated, adaptable, resilient.
  • Problem solving.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams).
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience in Visual Merchandising would be advantageous.
  • Commercially driven.
  • Flexible with working hours to meet business needs.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make size? the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

  • Incremental Holiday Allowance
  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Staff Discount on JD Group and other brands within the organisation
  • Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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The Company
Bury
23,337 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

The Group At A Glance:

Established in 1981 with a single store in Bury, in the North West of England, JD Sports Fashion plc (JD Group) are the leading global multi-channel retailer & distributor of branded and own branded sportswear & fashionwear.

JD Group has a global reach with brands and stores across 19 territories in Europe, North America & Asia Pacific. We are proud to provide our consumers with the latest products from recognised brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and The North Face, with strong Own Brand labels such as Pink Soda and Supply & Demand to provide an elevated consumer experience.

JD Group continue to lead the way with successful subsidiaries, including Size?, The Hip Store, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, as well as International Retailers, Sprinter (Spain), Sport Zone as well as JD Finish Line.

Our C:ulture

We inspire our people to reach for higher levels of performance. To achieve these standards, we only recruit the best! All employees are highly skilled, self motivated and in constant pursuit of perfection. Opportunities to progress arise quickly for those people with the right qualities and ambition.

We encourage our people to constantly seek ways to improve our business. This means challenging the way we merchandise, sell and manage the business, being creative and forward thinking in suggesting alternative solutions. Problems are solved and opportunities are seized by people from all levels of the organisation working together.

JD Sports Fashion HQ is situated in Bury, Greater Manchester. JD Sports also have our global Distribution Centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester & its highly decorative Creative Studio in Manchester City Centre

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