Job Summary The Assistant Store Manager role is an essential part of the store leadership team, impacting team member and guest experience every day. Assistant Store Managers are responsible for leading and coaching team members, holding the team accountable to results, and ensuring an outstanding guest experience in the store. Assistant Store Managers also are responsible for accomplishing administrative and operations focused activities, including floor management and scheduling. Job Summary The Assistant Store Manager role is an essential part of the store leadership team, impacting team member and guest experience every day. Assistant Store Managers are responsible for leading and coaching team members, holding the team accountable to results, and ensuring an outstanding guest experience in the store. Assistant Store Managers also are responsible for accomplishing administrative and operations focused activities, including floor management and scheduling. Core Responsibilities of the Job Operations * Implement the Store Manager's vision for the store and cascade to team members.
- Partner with Store Manager to review business data and metrics (e.g., profit and loss [P&L] statement) to inform planning processes (e.g., quarterly business review and sales planning).
- Partner with Store Manager to manage store's budget, labor hours, expenses, and P&L statement.
- Provide salesfloor leadership to team members, including planning salesfloor coverage and making decisions to maintain efficiency and effectiveness of salesfloor operations.
- Open and close the store in accordance with the opening and closing checklists.
- Understand and adhere to people safety policies and procedures to maintain a safe work environment.
- Perform work in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, and laws or regulations.
- Team lead role indirectly responsible for subset of store employees during shift or as delegated by Store Manager
- Support Store Manager in building a strong and diverse team that includes team members with various experiences, backgrounds, and skillsets to drive store operations.
- Support ongoing learning and development of team members (i.e., Educators and Key Leaders) consistently and equitably by providing direct feedback, coaching, mentoring, and career path guidance, and addressing performance concerns.
- Support the store's recruiting and hiring process, onboarding training, and overall performance management activities.
- Engage in career discussions to support and reinforce team understanding of how working at lululemon will contribute to their career and personal growth.
- Provide team member recognition, gap assessment, and overall performance documentation to support and reinforce career and personal growth.
- Collaborate with Store Manager to plan and prepare team member schedule according to labour requirements, availability, and budget considerations.
- Collaborate with team members to ensure an optimal guest experience that values guests' time and support store operations.
- Move dynamically on the floor to assess and fulfill the needs of the business, team, and guests.
- Resolve guest feedback and address emergent issues, including guest escalations and emergency requests, helping to "make it right" for guests.
- Increase brand awareness and acceptance in the community by cultivating inclusive relationships with partners and community influencers and seeking to engage with diverse community resources and programs.
- Establish and maintain local relationships with ambassadors, sweat leaders, and other external partners by identifying, selecting, training, and facilitating relationship building with guests and team.
- Accountable for delegated aspects of controllable budget or labor hours
- Team lead role indirectly responsible for subset of store employees during shift or as delegated by Store Manager
Inclusion & Diversity: Creates/supports an inclusive environment that values/celebrates differences
Integrity/Honesty: Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner
Leadership: Is able and desires to lead, influence, and inspire others; motivates, empowers, develops, and directs people as they work
Collaboration and Teamwork: Works productively with and supports others to achieve goals; seeks partnerships and diverse perspectives
Adaptability/Agility: Tolerates uncertainty and ambiguity and can change priorities in a fast-paced environment
Decision Making: Uses logic and reasoning to evaluate alternatives and make effective, timely decisions
Strategic Thinking: Sets strategies that are aligned to vision and values of the company to achieve goals/vision/further the mission; considers the 'big picture' implications of decisions
Resilience: Remains persistent; recovers quickly from setbacks
Adaptability/Agility: Tolerates uncertainty and ambiguity and can change priorities in a fast-paced environment
Decision Making: Uses logic and reasoning to evaluate alternatives and make effective, timely decisions
Strategic Thinking: Sets strategies that are aligned to vision and values of the company to achieve goals/vision/further the mission; considers the 'big picture' implications of decisions
Resilience: Remains persistent; recovers quickly from setbacks
Job Requirements
Eligibility
- Legally eligible to work in the jurisdiction of the store which you are assigned to.
- Willing to work a flexible schedule.
- Willing to work as part of a team and also complete work independently
- Willing to move through a store for most of a shift to help guests and accomplish work
- Work experience in leadership or people management
- Education: High School or Secondary School diploma equivalent or above.
- Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience: 1 year retail or sales specific management experience