Job description

Team Manager - Derry

Who we are

Explore everything that makes us Ireland's leading sports retailer #YourLifeYourStyleYourSports

As Ireland's leading and only Irish-owned sports retailer, Life Style Sports inspires and empowers the Stylised Athlete, across the whole island, through best-in-class omnichannel experiences for our customers.

Our modern Brand Centre sits in the heart of Dublin city above our flagship store for seamless collaboration between our BC and stores teams. Our new carbon-neutral Fulfilment Campus leads the way as the first in Ireland and is just one of the ways we're looking towards the future.

Supported by over 650 team members across 40 stores, and a rapidly expanding eCommerce operation, we provide all the latest drops across performance and fashion from the biggest brands in sports. With a highly engaged social media following of almost 400k across Instagram and Tiktok, our ever-growing digital operation plays a central role in all aspects of our business.

We create unrivalled experiences and opportunities for all members all our team, with well-being and development of skills being at the heart of our operation. Our culture is encapsulated through our three core Brand Values: Social, Inspirational & Fearless. These are interjected into every aspect of our business, whether that's guiding the direction of our brand strategy, or inspiring our approach to team events and training days or workshops with leading brands. We love to develop our people upwards for Store Management, Operations Management and Brand Centre roles. It's one of the many reasons we've been voted one of the Best Employers in Ireland by the Sunday Independent since the rankings began!

Envision working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment where innovative, ambitious, and creative people thrive. We're always looking for exceptional talent to join our team, so if you can see yourself as part of our team, explore our vacancies today.

Follow us on socials: Instagram: @LifeStyleSports @LifeStyleSportsWomen TikTok: @LifeStyleSports

Website : http://www.lifestylesports.com

Role Summary

As Team Manager you will assist the senior management team in the smooth day-to-day running of the store. The Team Manager will be responsible for driving the team’s daily objectives and KPI targets to achieve required results. You will act as the first point of contact for team members and will carry out daily team briefs relaying sales, service and store expectations.

Action Covid-19 guidelines in order to keep the team and customers safe.

Role Responsibilities

• Use your commercial acumen to drive and increase store sales, store productivity and control cost
• Utilise the commercial reports daily & weekly to ensure store is set up to trade productively each day
• Assist the management team to coach and develop a talented team as well as ad hoc recruitment process
• Set your team up with objectives and have clear KPI’s targets to achieve this. Follow up!
• Support and manage underperformers to ensure performance is in line with objectives set
• Be a commercial leader and develop an epic sales team
• Stock management and rotation
• Implement VM guidelines and share results with the operations team in your region
• Visit competitors weekly and report back any commercial observation
• Maintain regular communication with your senior management team

Key Requirements

• Experienced in delivering excellent customer service and driving overall store performance
• Competent in making business decisions with and in the absence of store/deputy manager
• Confident with report analysis and driving store productivity to achieve profit
• Knowledge of VM and product placement with a passion to inspire
• Invests in the people with the ability to lead, coach and develop a talented team

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person