Store Manager

Overview

Role overview: The Store Manager oversees daily operations, drives sales performance, manages a team of motivated employees, and ensures exceptional customer service to achieve business goals.

Responsibilities

• Effectively running all store operations to ensure meeting or exceeding sales and KPI targets, setting clear sales goals, tracking performance, and evolving processes to ensure continuous store growth.
• Create and maintain colleague schedules to ensure proper coverage and productivity.
• Creating a positive team culture through recruiting, training, and continuously developing your team. Build a motivated and high performing team, increasing chances of store success.
• Analysing sales data and financial reports to make quick and well-informed decisions, identifying and responding to areas of opportunity operationally and commercially.
• Develop and implement strategies to meet and exceed sales targets.
• Attract, engage and motivate customers into making purchases by using the latest visual merchandising techniques. Ensure merchandise displays are attractive and align to brand guidelines.
• Ensure your teams are delivering the highest level of service in store in order to achieve a positive net promoter score (NPS).
• Address customer inquiries, feedback, and complaints in a timely and professional manner.
• Drive existing customer loyalty programs and promotions to enhance customer engagement.
• Maintain compliance with company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and control store expenses to stay within budget.
• Ensure the store complies with health and safety regulations.

Role objectives and KPI's

• Contribute to achieving or exceeding the store's monthly sales target.
• Drive all additional KPIs including but not limited to Units, Conversion, ATV, UPT.

Key performance targets

• Achieve upselling or cross-selling targets.
• Maintain a high Net Promoter Score (NPS).
• Ensure stock accuracy during store audits.
• Ensure all new colleagues complete mandatory training.
• Ensure employee satisfaction scores or engagement survey results meet or exceed company benchmarks.
• Ensure operational costs are kept within the allocated budget.

Skills and Experience

• Previous management experience in a fast-paced Retail/ Customer Facing environment.
• Passionate about retail and have a good understanding of the latest trends and competitors.
• Strong leadership skills and previous experience coaching and developing a strong team.
• Strong communication skills.
• Proven track record of managing and exceeding sales targets and KPIs.
• Experience in analysing reports and making commercial decisions.
• Keen eye for detail and commerciality. Previous experience within visual merchandising would be advantageous.
• Promote JD Group values to internal and external stakeholders.

Benefits

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

• Quarterly discretionary bonus schemes
• Company discount of 30% off a large number of products in-store and online (JD Sports, Size?, Foot Patrol, Blacks, Millets, GO Outdoors)
• Exclusive deals and discounts and offers from retail and hospitality businesses through our online benefits platform (TELUS Health)
• Access to digital health and well-being services through our benefits platform (TELUS Health)
• Health cash plans
• Wide range of internal development courses to support personal and professional development
• Access to apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
• Company Sick Pay scheme
• Health Care Cover
• Discounted Gym memberships at JD Gyms
• Life Assurance
• Access to colleague networks and initiatives that drive positive change
• Opportunities to volunteer and contribute to JD Foundation
• Employer engagement forums to influence positive change
• Incremental Holiday Allowance