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Seasalt is a thriving retail lifestyle brand who put its customers at the heart of everything we do. Our success relies on a talented retail team who bring our values to life by helping our customers dress with creativity and confidence season after season.

Our Assistant Store Managers are part of the Store Management team, helping to build a successful business, maximising profitability, and driving KPI targets. They support with all aspects of running a Seasalt store and encourage the team to deliver the high standards our customers expect. This role has the opportunity to be a great stepping stone in your retail career, with many of our Assistant Store Managers going on to be Store Managers.

We now have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Store Manager to join the Whiteley Village team on a 40 hour permanent contract.

Please note this role can be worked on a part time basis, please state your availability on your application.

You'll help us by:

• Assisting the Store Manager in creating a service culture within the store team that puts the customer at the heart of everything they do
• Enabling the store team on how to recommend additional services to drive sales such as omni-channel selling, gathering customer data, and recommending add-on purchases
• Supporting the Store Manager with recruitment, working together to build a diverse and passionate team
• Being a great role model, driving store sales, profitability and consistent KPI achievement, understanding what is required to drive performance
• Coaching and developing the store team through regular 121’s, supporting with development plans when appropriate
• Communicating store performances to your team and key stakeholders around the business, providing regular feedback, highlighting any risks and opportunities to sales for the business
• Implementing store visual merchandising, windows standards and guidelines and utilising all product, categories, and bestseller information to maximise commercial opportunities within the store
• Utilising all product information to maximise sales opportunities
• Managing store operations such as management of stock, loss prevention, escalation and incident reporting, health, and safety, GDPR, cash handling, key holder responsibilities and store safety standards amongst others
• Being a key-holder for the store and having sole responsibility for running the store when required

The skills you'll be sharing with the team:

Leading the way with your exceptional retail skills, product knowledge and commercial know-how, you’ll be passionate about inspiring your team to exceed sales and maximise profitability. You will have previous experience in leading a team at supervisor level or above, preferably in a retail or equivalent environment where you drove key KPI achievement and managed budgets.

Taking responsibility of leading the store to support the Store Manager won’t phase you, as you will be passionate about the successful running of you store. Coaching and developing your team will be really important to you and is key to this role, you’ll be an excellent communicator who can build a culture of trust. Finding solutions comes naturally to you, and you won’t be afraid to share your ideas, thinking differently on how to achieve results.

Why we hope you'll love working with us:

The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us.

From the moment your Seasalt journey begins, it's our pledge to support you by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will enhance your day-to-day working life and help you build your skills and knowledge.

As well as doing everything we can to boost your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Salary of £24,500 - £25,688 dependant on experience
• Uniform allowance
• 34 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Health cash plan
• Long service enhanced holiday allowance
• Generous 50% staff discount on all full priced items
• Employer Contributory Pension
• Retail trust partnership
• Life assurance programme
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Remote medical support partnership
• Paid volunteering opportunities

At Seasalt we believe in creating a positive environment where our differences are respected and each of us feels valued for our contribution. Treating people fairly is part of our values and at the core of our culture. As an inclusive employer, all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, age, socioeconomic background, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity and caring responsibilities, marital status, nationality and disability including invisible disabilities and neurodiversity.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If there’s anything else you’d like to tell us which would help your application, please contact our Resourcing team at [email protected]