Gerant.e - Carrefour Laval

Lush Handmade Cosmetics•Montreal, QC

2h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Shop Manager, you bring Lush’s Leadership Practices into all elements of your business interactions with customers, fellow staff, and operations: Be Real, Be Curious, Lead Fearlessly, Adapt and Evolve, Grow Talent, and Live with Purpose. The Shop Manager supports the Lush retail business and reports to their Market Leader. As Shop Manager, you are responsible for managing budgets and exceeding sales while creating an environment for strong customer experience, staff experience and operational excellence. You own your development: assessing your performance, seeking feedback and resources and opportunities to improve and elevate your skills, knowledge and abilities.

Requirements

3-5 years managing in a retail environment.
Strong HR skills in hiring, scheduling, training, conflict resolution and performance management
Excellent listening and communication skills
Excellent analytical, critical thinking and troubleshooting skills.
Excellent organization and time management skills
Strong customer service, supervisory and sales skills
Knowledge and interest in skincare, natural beauty, and ethical business
Ability to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the shop including holidays, evenings, and weekends.

Nice To Haves

Experience with consultation-based customer service models
Ability to develop and train staff through positive coaching and feedback.
Strong record of accomplishment of developing retail staff careers.
Proficient in excel, Microsoft suit, and adaptable to other systems as required.
Experience in cross cultural collaboration and DEIB or social justice training
Fluency in Spanish, French, or other languages

Responsibilities

Collaborate with your team on plans to exceed daily sales goals and ensure a unique and inclusive customer experience that makes every visitor feel welcome, meets their needs, and makes their day.
Educate our customers and staff on our brand values, and articulate our position on Fighting Animal Testing, Freshest Cosmetics, Ethical Buying, 100% Vegetarian, Handmade, and Naked Packaging in the shop and through community engagement and other traffic-driving initiatives.
Increase the depth of your product knowledge through constant learning and consistently make informed and product recommendations for every need.
Demonstrate strong business acumen and understanding of your metrics and reports by developing and executing business plans that align with the American business strategy to achieve both short- and long-term goals that improve KPIs and achieve sales goals.
Demonstrate the Leadership Practices and coach and develop your team in their careers by creating development plans, encouraging learning through Lush tools, coaching behaviors as they arise, and providing constructive feedback that inspires and motivates.
Actively committed to maintaining a diverse team and creating an inclusive environment by prioritizing DEIB training and initiatives and actively collaborating with your team on solutions that promote equity and belonging.
Balances analysis, experience, and perspective when making decisions about performance concerns and creates action plans to improve staff engagement, demonstrating empathy and considering personal situations/struggles when approaching performance concerns.
Forms teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience and demonstrate equal employment opportunity practices by providing transparency and equity in the interview and promotion process and supporting staff to grow and develop in their retail careers.
Prioritize shop compliance and ensure your staff have completed training and are practicing company standards for time and attendance, breaks and meals, product integrity, respectful workplace, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination guidelines, health and safety protocols, daily communication, all within your budget.
Ensure your team is trained and equipped to abide by standards and rotation rules and manage ordering to ensure the right products, in the right amounts are in the store at the right times; using inventory reporting tools, create and execute action plans to manage orders, inventory and waste, within your allocated budget.
Create and execute merchandising plans to improve KPIs and train and manage your team to take pride in a clean and beautiful work environment and follow the merchandising and design standards to provide a consistent customer experience and drive sales.
Ensure the right number of staff with the right skill levels are scheduled at peak times and that breaks, and meals are allocated and recorded appropriately to ensure staff wellbeing and payroll accuracy, while staying within your labor budget.