About The Role
- Retail and people management experience essential
- Women's fashion & styling exposure highly regarded
- Part Time
We are looking for a passionate Retail Store Manager to take the reins and showcase our newest store. Experience in overseeing store operations, leading a team and building on an existing customer base will be essential to your success. You share a love for our sustainable range, unique aesthetic and align with our core values. You are committed to delivering exceptional service and a consistent and memorable ELK shopping experience. Your people management experience, superior organisational skills and mentoring abilities will be essential for taking this stunning store to all new heights!
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
- Delivering exceptional service and the ELK experience to existing and prospective customers
- Maintaining loyal customer base and actively building community connections
- Outfitting, styling, upselling and onselling our timeless products by engaging customers with aesthetic features and sustainable benefits
- Owning and driving smooth and efficient store operations
- Coaching, mentoring and elevating team members by consistently leading by example
- Ensuring all operations are effective, productive and in line with expectations
- Analysing store and team performance and implementing change for ongoing growth and development
- Managing rosters and wages to sales expenditure
- Merchandising and maintenance of store visual presentation in line with guidelines
- Effective and well received management and training of team members to optimise performance and retention
- Talent scouting and interviewing potential new joiners
- Living and breathing ELK as a true brand ambassador
What We'll Love About You:
- Experience managing and leading a team within a retail (or similar) environment essential
- Proven experience overseeing the effective and profitable daily operations of a retail store ensuring optimum efficiency, productivity, and performance to budgets
- Ability to deliver exceptional customer service with a natural flair for making genuine connections with others
- Ability to excel in a team environment, nurturing and supporting those around you
In Return We Offer:
- Values based business genuinely focused on ethical, sustainable, circular fashion
- A highly collaborative, nurturing work environment
- Generous uniform allowance to showcase our product while working
- Market leading product discounts for you, your family & friends
- Opportunities to grow your career with ELK
- 2 days paid Volunteer Leave every year
- Your birthday off every year
- Opportunities to increase your earnings through our generous profit sharing bonus scheme
At ELK, we nurture an open, inclusive workplace, valuing authenticity, transparency and community and celebrate individual strengths. We strive to ensure our team reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we work. We embrace the opportunity to welcome talent who are passionate not just about what we do but why we do it, irrespective of background, life stage, identity, and ability. Join us on our journey as a responsible business, making better products for a healthier planet.
How To Apply
If this sounds like you, please apply here with a cover letter sharing with us why you’re the perfect candidate and a copy of your CV OR reach out to us at ****@elkthelabel.com. We can’t wait to hear from you x
A pioneer of Australian design, ELK was established in 2004 in Melbourne, Australia. The ELK aesthetic holds a unique place within the international fashion landscape. With a highly considered approach by brand founders Marnie and Adam, ELK collections resonate with their global audience through sustainable and ethical practices, design refinement, trend curation and an intellect that is innately their own. Their sculptural accessories, hand-made leather and ready-to-wear collections define their artful vision while their devotion to ethical and sustainable practices has endured them as a leader in the practice of responsible innovation for the fashion industry. At ELK, we nurture an open, inclusive workplace, valuing authenticity, transparency and community and celebrate individual strengths. We strive to ensure our team reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we work. We embrace the opportunity to welcome talent who are passionate not just about what we do but why we do it, irrespective of background, life stage, identity, and ability. Join us on our journey as a responsible business, making better products for a healthier planet.