Assistant Store Manager
About The Position
REI Co-op is united around discovering, building and celebrating better ways of working in this world, all so that folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors, for people and our planet. Our team seeks an Assistant Store Manager to direct the store management team to ensure the successful execution of all functions associated with running a retail profit center. You’ll manage a team of department managers and staff to deliver on REI business and service goals. With your dynamic leadership style, recognizing and rewarding team members will deepen engagement and cultivate TEAMWORK! You are an energetic and visible manager! How you will be successful: Communicates with store team, partners, vendors, and customers. Manage and delegate planned priorities to Department Managers and Shop Service Managers. Engage in creating a positive employee experience focused on engagement and retention. Manage expenses and operational excellence. Make business adaptations that result in increased sales and service. Uses tools and financial reports to increase store performance and maximize results. Inspire a customer-centric culture by recognizing and rewarding team. Develop top performers and evaluate performance, give coaching and appropriate level of feedback. Bring your passionate, authentic self We lead with our values, and we are creating a culture that inspires and enables everyone to bring their whole self and their highest ambitions to work every day, so that we can achieve more outside together. Join us in seeking, creating, and building new ways to work.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of successful retail management experience.
- Enjoys communicating and building relationships, both inside and outside the organization.
- Open to feedback and other viewpoints in the spirit of supporting the business.
- Uses business understanding, innovative thinking, and sound judgment to solve problems.
- Makes solid recommendations by combining information from various sources.
- Produces quality work by setting effective goals and establishing priorities.
- Organizes and uses resources to meet deadlines, keeps others in the loop about plans and progress.
- Engages and influences others to accomplish worthwhile organizational goals.
Responsibilities
- Communicates with store team, partners, vendors, and customers.
- Manage and delegate planned priorities to Department Managers and Shop Service Managers.
- Engage in creating a positive employee experience focused on engagement and retention.
- Manage expenses and operational excellence.
- Make business adaptations that result in increased sales and service.
- Uses tools and financial reports to increase store performance and maximize results.
- Inspire a customer-centric culture by recognizing and rewarding team.
- Develop top performers and evaluate performance, give coaching and appropriate level of feedback.
Benefits
- REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
