Store Manager

**The Athletes Foot**

**Store Manager - Maternity Cover**:
**Wellington, Wellington, Wellington City Centre**

$55,000 - $63,000 Annual

Fixed Term/Temporary

**Full job description**

At The Athlete’s Foot, our team members are highly passionate about inspiring, motivating and empowering our customers to better their best. We believe that people ultimately want to lead a healthy and fit way of life and we want to empower them to do so by providing correctly fitted footwear and personalised service. From their first pair of shoes to their last, our team are there to ensure that whatever activity they want to do, they’re wearing the right shoes. Our service extends beyond our four walls to support our local communities by engaging with health professionals, schools, and local sporting clubs.

Joining The Athlete’s Foot is more than just a job, it is a family who cares, develops, grows, and rewards each and every one of us.

**The role & responsibilities**:
We are looking for a Store Leader who is eager to accelerate in their career to oversee a passionate team at The Athletes Foot Cuba Mall Store.

The opportunity will also include involvement in local community activations, partnering with sporting events and managing relationships with health care professionals that we work with. This is not your normal retail role with a lot of work happening “outside the four walls” of the stores to drive brand growth.
This is a Maternity Leave contract, for up to 6 months, with the opportunity to stay within the business after the contract has ended.
To be successful in this role, you should have experience in the following:

- Ensuring efficient operation of stores to achieve optimal results in sales targets, KPI’s, store presentation, visual merchandising, stock levels, wage control and shrinkage
- Motivating your team to achieve optimal results in KPI’s & added value targets across stores
- Closely monitoring store sales to achieve daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly targets - acknowledging outstanding results and identify any areas of missed opportunity
- Effectively manage wage costs to weekly wage targets, company rostering standards and following the GRIA guidelines
- Coach and mentor your team to maintain high team morale and encourage the development of their store teams by ensuring training and succession plans are in place
- Ensure efficient OH&S management and adhere to state and national OH&S legislation

**Benefits & culture**:

- 40% off Accent Group brands | Hype DC, Skechers, Platypus, Vans & many more
- Access to our Employee Benefits program which includes discounted Gym Memberships & Health Insurance packages
- Be a part of Accent Group leadership conferences, awards nights, product launch events and much more
- Work amongst premium product alongside a like-minded team and customer
- Training & development to grow your career with our ‘Future Leaders Program’

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Demonstrated Retail Store Manager or Senior Assistant Store Manager experience in a fast-paced environment
- A motivated & driven ‘Make it Happen’ attitude
- A passion for leading & inspiring a team to succeed
- The ability to think strategically to identify missed opportunities and have a proven track record in driving sales and KPI’s
- A sound operational & strategical skill set and experience with stock control and visual merchandising
- Experience with effectively managing a roster & wage control
- Ability to build strong professional relationships with Support Office departments

At Accent Group Limited we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and inclusion. We believe in the diversity of our people across age, gender, identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical and mental ability. We strive on creating an equal employment environment where everyone from any background can be themselves. The Accent Group acknowledges, and pays respect, to the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of the land. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori people.

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**Reference Number**: NA

**Profession / Role**:

- Retail / Management

**Employer**: The Athletes Foot

**Date Posted**: 18th Feb, 2025

**Date Expires**: 28th Feb, 2025