Role: Store Manager
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week to be worked over five days out of seven, on a rota basis
Reporting to: Regional Manager
Location: White Rose, 313 Ecclesall Rd, Sharrow, Sheffield S11 8NX.
ABOUT US:
Founded in 2009, White Rose is a chain of handpicked recycled fashion stores supporting the work of The Aegis Trust. Aegis aims to prevent conflict and mass atrocity in communities at risk around the world. Find out more about us at www.whiterosefashion.com and about the Aegis Trust charity at www.aegistrust.org. White Rose plans for the future are to be the number one destination for sustainable fashion.
OUR MISSION:
To fund the Aegis Mission, our purpose here at White Rose is “To redefine high street fashion with a positive impact on the planet and humanity”
OUR VALUES:
- We are innovative
- We are sustainable
- We are collaborative
- We are compassionate
What you’ll be doing:
Be responsible for all aspects of the day to day running of the White Rose store. This includes:
- Driving the Business: Know your marketplace and able to take personal responsibility of driving the day-to-day, focusing on the performance of the store.
- Have a high level of visual merchandising skills to continually raise the standard of the store presentation.
- Customer Focus: Ensure everything you and your team do, puts the customer first. You’ll coach the team on what great customer service looks like.
- Passionately promotes our White Rose products through store social platforms.
- Leading & Inspiring the Team: Actively drives team and volunteer engagement, and is able to provide coaching to the team by demonstrating flexibility with leadership style, to support store operations.
- Manages the Operation: To maintain a professional work environment, comply with all current legislation and White Rose policies and procedures including health and safety, operating standards and retail regulations.
- Build strong partnerships – Is able to communicate effective with stock to store functions to ensure right product, right place, right time.
- Promotion of our charity The Aegis Trust: Ensure the store is utilised fully as a vehicle to promote the charity to all staff, volunteers and customers through effective communication along with your own passion and empathy for the cause.
What you’ll bring:
- Previous experience in a retail management role, with a commercial mindset for driving footfall and sales.
- A passion for sustainability and doing our bit for the planet.
- Experience in people management, with the ability to lead and motivate a diverse team including volunteers.
- A resilient, positive, self-motivator, with a proven ability to achieve sales targets.
- A passion for fashion, brands, and trends with a creative flair for visual merchandising.
- Excellent customer service skills and ability to coach this in others.
- The ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with a variety of people at all levels.
- A confident leader, that uses initiative, operates with integrity and role models the right behaviours.
- The ability to work with respect and integrity, and always do the right thing.
- A strong communicator with excellent organisation skills
What you’ll get:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Company funded Professional Training and Qualifications
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Company Sick Pay (after qualifying service)
- 20% colleague discount
- Long service and birthday recognition
- Reward and Recognition via Hero Points – your rewards, your way!
