icebreaker: Key Holder - TouchLab Kitsilano

VF Corporation • Vancouver, BC

4d • CA$18 - CA$26 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Key Holder, you support the Store Manager with the execution of daily business, customer engagement, store operations, team coaching, and merchandising standards in the store. As part of the leadership team and under supervision of Store Manager, you have a key role to supervise store staff and ensure the highest level of customer engagement and sales results are achieved. You contribute to fostering a positive work environment that ensures both internal and external customer satisfaction while maximizing productivity and profitability. This position may assume responsibility for the store in the absence of another manager. Join the icebreaker Family Founded in 1995 in New Zealand, icebreaker is a pioneer of ethical and sustainable natural performance apparel. Now a part of the VF Corporation, icebreaker continues to challenge the status quo while championing natural, transparent, and responsible ways to do business. icebreaker looks to nature for the answers and for innovative ways to do more with less. Working with what nature provides and adapting as nature does, icebreaker enables consumers to join a movement towards choosing natural and preserving our planet for generations to come. We are on a mission to be Plastic Free by 2023 and transition all our apparel to merino or plant-based fibers – and we are 91% of the way there! We’re a community of passionate, authentic, and adventurous achievers! Today, we’re a global brand with a diverse team across the Globe. We strive to celebrate those differences and create an inclusive culture where all are welcome.

Requirements

• 1+ years of store management experience in a fast-paced, highly engaging retail environment
• Proven ability to meet and exceed sales results.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business; will require weekends, evenings, and holidays.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced store environment.
• Proven ability to meet business goals by driving results through store team
• Willingness and desire to learn and to share knowledge of products, local community, experiences and activities relevant to the store’s customer base.
• Ability and desire to provide a highly engaging customer experience through individual service, conversation and relationship building.
• Excellent decision-making ability in a fast-paced environment
• Detail orientated.
• Proficient computer skills including word processing, spreadsheets, and software programs

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a specialty retail environment, outdoor apparel industry or experience with outdoor equipment sales preferred.
• High School Diploma or GED
• Use ladders for visual merchandising, light adjustments, and window banner placement

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop staff to exceed individual and store productivity goals.
• Engage customers in conversation around Icebreaker products, activities and local community events.
• Supervise floor coverage and activities, including opening and closing store as scheduled.
• In partnership with the Store Manager, provide training and ongoing development of store staff in customer engagement and all company programs, policies and procedures.
• Support the Store Manager in achieving all financial and operational objectives including expense control, Loss Prevention, store audits, and weekly reporting.
• Partner with the Store Manager on the implementation of visual merchandising directives and maintain standards consistent with company brand strategies; ensures merchandise on selling floor is replenished appropriately.
• Partner with the Store Manager to ensure compliance and adherence to policies and procedures, standards and practices, and company directives.
• Model behavior that respects the background, experience, and cultural differences of others, while upholding the integrity and values of the VF Corporation and the brand.
• Promote an environment that encourages participation, creativity, and learning by sharing best practices and building on the ideas of others.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits that encourage mental, physical, and financial well-being for all VF associates.
• Some benefits the company offers that this position can participate in.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED