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Job Title: Store Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen at French Connection, we are looking for a Store Manager to join our new outlet store opening in The Boulevard - Banbridge, could that be you?
The successful applicant will have comparable experience gained within a fast paced high street retailer, and will combine an outgoing personality with a genuine love of the French Connection brand.
Key areas of responsibility will be:
•    maximising the store's sales and profitability
•    delivering unequalled levels of customer service through the team
•    motivating the team and assisting them in achieving agreed objectives
•    liaising with peers and Head Office departments
•    developing the brand name and image of the company through compliance with all company policy and procedures
•    promoting high visual merchandising standards; ensuring that store housekeeping standards are continually achieved
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate:
•    previous line management experience within Fashion retail
•    strong coaching and development skills in order to establish a high performance team
•    high levels of enthusiasm, drive and motivation
•    a proven track record of driving sales
•    the ability to excel in a commercially focused environment
•    the ability to multitask and meet deadlines
Benefits:
•    Free seasonal uniform allowance
•    Management monthly bonuses based on stores' performance
•    28 days holiday allowance
•    Generous clothing discount for you and your Friends & Family
...and above all to work with inspirational people where you can develop and enhance your career!
If that sounds like you please apply!

To apply Click HERE

An exciting opportunity has arisen at French Connection, we are looking for a Assistant Manager to join our new outlet store opening in The Boulevard, Banbridge could that be you?
The successful applicant will have comparable experience gained within a fast paced high street retailer, and will combine an outgoing personality with a genuine love of the French Connection brand.
Purpose of the role:
•    Effectively assist with the overall operation of the store to ensure that store productivity, sales and profitability goals are achieved and exceeded
•    Ensure that a premium level of customer service is being offered to each customer, and your team is adequately trained to deliver this
•    Assist the Store Manager to control, manage and minimise all controllable costs efficiently (within planned budgets and targets)
Key areas of responsibility will be:
•    Achieve and exceed sales and profit budgets, whilst ensuring corporate and individual productivity goals for the team and store are met
•    Continually train, coach and develop employees to ensure that they are able to carry out their role effectively, identifying and addressing any performance issues within the team
•    Promote and deliver excellence in visual standards in-line with company guidelines and expectations, whilst maintaining the highest housekeeping standards
•    Maintain maximum stock availability through effective use of replenishment, whilst regularly reviewing your stock profile and liaising directly with the merchandising team to ensure you have the correct stock packages
•    Any other ad hoc duties related to store management as outlined in your Job Description
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate:
•    a proven track record of driving sales
•    the ability to excel in a commercially focused environment
•    previous line management experience, preferably within a retail environment
•    strong coaching and development skills in order to establish a high performance team
•    demonstrates high levels of motivation, ambition and drive
•    the ability to multitask and meet deadlines
Benefits:
•    Free seasonal uniform allowance
•    Management bonuses based on stores' performance
•    28 days holiday allowance
•    Generous clothing discount for you and your Friends & Family!
...and above all to work with inspirational people where you can develop and enhance your career!

To apply CLICK HERE

Radley London – Part Time Sales (8 hrs per week) – The Boulevard Banbridge

Radley was born in London and has a passion for artisan-made handbags, footwear and accessories. We know leather and we never stop striving to set a new standard for quality. Every Radley London design is made with expert care. 

At Radley we are on a journey to create, promote and live an inclusive culture. Ever inspired by the women around us, changing their world in ways big and small – including their commitment to social equity.  We are actively working to make impactful changes across our business to become diverse and celebrate one another’s differences, we encourage a supportive and open environment for anyone that steps through our doors.  We are #ProudToBe Radley London.

We’re excited to be recruiting for a part time Sales with a passion for luxury fashion, driving outstanding customer for our new store within The Boulevard Banbridge.  Flexibility over the seven days.

Every person within the Radley team plays a valuable part in ensuring we continually deliver an exceptional customer experience while actively selling to make a significant contribution in driving the success of the business.
Key responsibilities for the role include:
•    Offering customers, a positive and enthusiastic service
•    Prioritising the customer’s needs at all times
•    Adopting the Radley approach to effective selling
•    Identify opportunities to maximise sales by driving, monitoring and reacting to your KPIs (sales, conversion, footfall, ACS, margin)

You will be dynamic and dedicated to working as a team to create a winning story. Applicants must have relevant experience within a customer focused environment.

We are proud to offer a highly competitive benefits package, some of which we share below. If you are shortlisted as having some of the skill’s we’re looking for in this role then we’ll openly share our salary banding with you ahead of moving forward with any next stages. For some time, we have actively stopped asking candidates their salary expectations at interview where it isn’t necessary to do so, we want to pay an individual for the job based on their experience and ability and not limit some groups from undervaluing their ability.

Benefits & Perks
· Enhanced annual leave (incl. holiday buy)
· Flexible bank holidays to suit you
· Sickness Pay
· Life Assurance Cover
· Virtual GP
· Healthcare Cash Plan of up to c.£900 per year
· Employee Assistant Programme
· Wellbeing App (Thrive)
· Company Bonus
· Product Discount (up to 60%)
· Time in Service Rewards
· Birthday small leather goods gift
· Sample Sale lucky dip
· Special Occasion Gifts
· Cycle to Work Scheme
· Season Ticket Loan

If you believe you have the right skills and experience to carry out the role and want to become part of the Radley London Family - apply now

Please send a CV and cover letter including your availability to:
Joanne McManus – Store Manager – banbridge@radleyandco.com

Full time and part time staff required
Fully flexible preferred, no experience necessary.
Must be able to work late evenings when required.

To apply please provide a current CV to the restaurant manager in store

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colourful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles. 
 
Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.
 
Primary Purpose
 
The Muse (Sales Associate) contributes to achieving store goals in sales, productivity, and service by utilizing Kate Spade selling skills, and Kate Spade Service training. You will responsible for meeting personal sales and productivity goals, and delivering service that meets or exceeds expectations. You will represent Kate Spade to the consumer, act as an ambassador of the brand, and ensure customers’ needs are consistently exceeded.
 
 
PROFILE
 
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following proficiencies:
•    Understand how individual productivity impacts the store;
•    Behave like a brand ambassador;
•    Model sales behaviours taught in company sales training programs;
•    Maintain high energy on the sales floor;
•    Consistently achieve sales goals;
•    Able to work with multiple customers simultaneously;
•    Consistently anticipate and meet customers’ needs;
•    Service all customers according to the Kate Spade Approach standards;
•    Participate as a team member and encourage team to meet and exceed performance standards;
•    Champion company initiatives and supports management decisions;
•    Demonstrate professional ethics.
 
Further requirements:
•    Previous experience in a retail service environment (essential);
•    Background in working in luxury retail (desirable);
•    The ability to communicate effectively with customers and staff and manoeuvre the sales floor.
 
Our Competencies for All Employees
•    Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
•    Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
•    Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
•    Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
•    Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
•    Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
•    Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
 
Kate Spade is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under the consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Kate Spade at www.katespade.com. 

To apply please email a current CV to challiday@katespade.com

Full time Supervisor:
Police, the De Rigo Group's house brand, was launched in Italy in 1983 as unisex eyewear and a metropolitan manifesto for those who set out to get noticed.
The Police brand continues to ride above the fashions, without ever compromising its personality. This has been portrayed over the years by important Brand Ambassadors, such as Bruce Willis, George Clooney, David Beckham, Antonio Banderas and the football star, Neymar Jr, who have interpreted and voiced the POLICE values, style and world.
Police products are now distributed in more than 80 countries across all major cities. Since 2008, the brand's retail strategy has focused mainly on the Middle East and China, alongside the opening of 40 shop-in-shops in the most important Department Stores. These shop-in-shops embody the quintessence of the Police lifestyle. They serve to reinforce the brand image and its metropolitan attitude whilst presenting a lifestyle as a whole.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
•    Greeting customers who enter the shop.
•    Be involved in stock control and management.
•    Assisting shoppers to find the goods and products they are looking for.
•    Being responsible for processing cash and card payments.
•    Giving advice and guidance on product selection to customers.
•    Keeping the store tidy and clean, this includes sweeping and mopping.
•    Responsible dealing with customer complaints.
•    Receiving and storing the delivery of large amounts of stock
The Desired Experience/Skills
•    Years of Experience: 1+ Years as Retail Sales Assistant within a fashion lifestyle brand, multiple branded or high profile independent retailer.
•    Excellent spoken and written command of English. Able to use effective open conversation.
•    Confident and assertive
•    Positive and enthusiastic with a can do attitude
•    Passion for fashion retail
•    Trend aware, fashion conscious and well presented at all times
Competitive Salary, bonus and uniform allowance.

To apply please forward a current CV to Recruitment@883police.com

Sales Advisor - Part Time
8 hours per week
As we expand and embrace this exciting next chapter, we have a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our ranges through its paces. Welcome to our journey!
Purpose of the role:
To generate sales by delivering outstanding customer service and maintaining impeccable store standards ensuring customer loyalty is retained.
Responsibilities:
•    Achieve sales targets by demonstrating passion for the product and the brand
•    Provide accurate information about our product to the customer including features and benefits and stock availability
•    Promote our multi-channel shopping options to ensure maximum customer satisfaction
•    Provide an inviting and welcoming atmosphere for our customers
•    Process sales transactions with care and in line with company guidelines
•    Demonstrate flexibility in order to meet the needs of the store
Key Skills and Experience:
Essential:
•    Customer service focused
•    Good communication skills
•    Experience in retail industry
Desirable:
•    Good IT skills
•    Experience of working in a premium fashion brand

  To apply CLICK HERE 

Key Holder - Part Time
12 hours per week
As we expand and embrace this exciting next chapter, we have a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our ranges through its paces. Welcome to our journey!
Purpose of the role:
To generate sales by delivering outstanding customer service and maintaining impeccable store standards ensuring customer loyalty is retained.
Responsibilities:
•    Achieve sales targets by demonstrating passion for the product and the brand
•    Open and close the store when a member of managaement isnt there
•    Provide accurate information about our product to the customer including features and benefits and stock availability
•    Promote our multi-channel shopping options to ensure maximum customer satisfaction
•    Provide an inviting and welcoming atmosphere for our customers
•    Process sales transactions with care and in line with company guidelines
•    Demonstrate flexibility in order to meet the needs of the store
Key Skills and Experience:
Essential:
•    Customer service focused
•    Good communication skills
•    Experience in retail industry
Desirable:
•    Good IT skills
•    Experience of working in a premium fashion brand
To apply CLICK HERE

Come and join the team at Ben Sherman!

As we expand and embrace this exciting next chapter, we have a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our ranges through its paces. Welcome to our journey!

Purpose of the role:

You will be the one to take full accountability in driving consistent improvement to the stores sales, KPI’s and all other areas of measured success. You will recruit, retain, motivate and develop the team to drive the success of the store, whilst maintaining exceptional visual merchandising standards throughout the store and create a shopping experience that delights our customers every time.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering LFL. growth of both sales and KPI performance in the store
• Maintaining impeccable visual merchandising standards throughout the store ensuring effective use of space and stock availability
• Complying with reasonable instructions from senior members of the retail team
• Developing, reviewing and appraising your team based on key performance indicators and performance managing poor performers
• Ensuring integrity of the brand is maintained through correct behaviours and uniform standards of the team
• Controlling payroll and other store expenditures ensuring they come within budget
• Training and inducting your team to deliver excellent customer service
  
  

Key Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Customer service focused
• Sales and target driven
• Excellent visual merchandising skills
• Commercial awareness 
• Good communication skills

Desirable:

• Good IT skills
• Experience of managing poor performance
• Experience of working in a premium fashion brand

To apply, please click here

About the Role
Here at The Perfume Shop, people are at the heart of everything we do. We are always on the lookout for individuals with Talent, a Passion for what we do and a Spark to help achieve our vision.

The Role

Are you passionate about perfume, and love people?

Do you want to be part of a supportive team, and thrive in a fast-paced environment?

Everyday our Team Leaders work hard to make sure their team and customers feel valued, confident and special.

As a Team Leader, you play an integral role in supporting the Store Manager with the daily operational running of the store. You will lead by example, motivating and supporting a diverse team to deliver against key targets that drive the success of your store.

Contracted Hours: 20
Contract Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: £13.15 per hour 

What You Will Do:

You are passionate about coaching and mentoring staff, ensuring they are set up for success
You will motivate the team to achieve and exceed store and team targets – and there are fantastic incentives and prizes on offer to recognise success!
You will support the Store Manager with rosters, payroll budgets, prevention of stock loss, and store procedures
In the absence of the Store Manager, you will step in, keeping everything running smoothly!
Being a key holder, you will ensure the store is opened and closed at the correct times
You will lead by example, providing exceptional customer service and ensuring your team does the same
 

What You Will Bring:

We believe that you bring Talent, Passion and Spark and in return we will give you the skills and training in perfume to succeed!

It really helps if you;

Have a talent for building relationships, coaching and mentoring
Have a passion for teamwork, and being successful together
Have the spark to love upskilling and learning about perfume
Can be flexible with your work patterns
Have previous experience leading a team, or an experienced sales advisor ready for your next step
 

What You Will Get:

We’ll ensure you work regular hours and get your rota at least 4 weeks in advance so you can plan your life outside work
We pay commission at Christmas based on store sales and the number of hours worked
30 days holiday (pro rata depending on contract hours)
You’re also a VIP to us, so you’ll get 20% off perfume and be able to take part in any customer offers on top!
Additional discounts with our AS Watson partners including Superdrug and 3 mobile
The opportunity to win some great prizes and incentives based on personal, team and store performance
Continuous learning and training to ensure you are always developing
Access to Wagestream, to support your financial wellbeing needs, giving you more control and flexibility with your pay.
Pension, health and wellbeing benefits + more!

We are passionate about ‘Growing Our Own’, so we always encourage our employees to progress internally. As part of this, we offer apprenticeship schemes for all levels!

We thank you for your interest, however due to the high volumes of applications, only those successful will be contacted. We do still encourage you to continue applying to any roles of interest you see advertised.

The Perfume Shop is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion within our work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

The Perfume Shop is part of AS Watson Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer operating over 16,500 stores under 12 retail brands in 28 markets, with over 130,000 employees worldwide. For the fiscal year 2023, AS Watson Group recorded revenue of US$23 billion. Every year, it is serving over 5.5 billion shoppers via its O+O (Offline plus Online) platforms, providing tech-enabled retail experience to customers offline and online.

To apply CLICK HERE

Customer Care Assistant - Full time
18+ years
Over 18's - £11.65 per hour

As a Customer Care Assistant, think of yourself as the face of your restaurant. In a nutshell, you'll deal with customers and make sure everything runs as it should in the customer areas. Activities include making children feel welcome, handing out balloons, organising special events, looking after customers' specific needs, keeping high standards of cleanliness in the dining area and toilets and helping to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere. It's your responsibility to establish and maintain positive communication with customers at all times and to keep the manager informed about customer satisfaction.

For more information and to apply, please click here