Key Skills
Job Description
Hours Contract 32 per week
Job Overview:
Support the Store Manager to manage all aspects of the store operations and lead the sales team members to ensure commercial objectives are achieved
Deputising Store Manager absence when required.
Responsibilities
• Demonstrate excellent selling behaviours, being a role model to the sales team to consistently deliver personal key performance indicators
• Support the Store Manager to engage, coach and develop the team to ensure the store delivers its sales targets and related key performance indicators.
• Oversee the sales floor, demonstrating excellent Floor Control skills to ensure the store is great place to shop.
• Consistently review and utilise store CSAT insight to identify actions to improve the customer experience and store operations
• Support in the delivery of store operations and Visual Merchandising principles to deliver best practice retail standards and create the required shopping experience
• Continually upskill in knowledge of our products to be a product expert, role modelling and educating the team to utilise product knowledge to drive sales
• Organise and prioritise required tasks to ensure business needs are met whilst protecting sales and service in store
• Provide regular feedback to the team to motivate and engage to improve performance where required.
• Support the Store Manager with managing people issues as they occur to avoid escalation into more complex issues
• Build capability and understanding to effectively manage all aspects of the store in the absence of the store manager
Qualifications/Experience
• Good retail experience including in a management role, leading a team
• Strong coaching skills
• Effective communicator who can provide clarity to individuals or teams on what is required of them and why
• Ability to inspire and motivate a store team through injecting pride, passion and energy into creating a positive working environment.
• Proficient in supporting people-processes and team development
• Good experience in delivering and exceeding sales and targets
• Proactive with good organisation skills to initiate completion of tasks without direction or
supervision
• Good commercial skills
• IT proficient with the ability to use a range of systems to manage in store activity
• Good knowledge of and experience in Visual Merchandising
• Proficiency in English needed for roles outside the UK and RoI
Core Responsibilities
The Team Leader supports the Store Manager in overseeing daily store operations and managing the sales team to achieve commercial objectives. They are responsible for driving sales performance, maintaining visual merchandising standards, and coaching team members to ensure a high-quality customer experience.
Requirements
Candidates must have prior retail management experience and a proven ability to lead and motivate a team. Strong communication, coaching, and organizational skills are required, along with proficiency in retail systems and visual merchandising principles.
About Clarks
Industry: Retail
Company size: 10,001+ employees
It began with a flash of inspiration. It was 1825 in the Somerset village of Street and James Clark was busy working at the tannery owned by his brother, Cyrus. Among the sheepskin rugs, the off-cuts and cast-offs were piling up when James had a brainwave: “Slippers!”. And the rest, as they say, is history. A few stitches and a few years later, the sheepskin slipper was born It was the very first Clarks shoe and the opening chapter in a remarkable story that continues to unfold to this day. In the decades that have passed since the young Mr. Clark’s eureka moment our shoes have seen social, political and economic revolution. They’ve seen fashions in footwear come and go, and come again – everything from court shoes and winklepickers to wedge heels, sandals and sneakers. They’ve tapped to the beat of crooners, rockers, Britpoppers and hip hoppers. They’ve walked, marched, strode and sashayed through an ever-changing world. New technology, state-of the-art facilities and our love of shoes means we’re not only the number one shoe brand in the UK. With continuing growth in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, India and China, we’re also the world’s largest casual and smart shoe company and the fourth largest footwear company on the planet. We’ve come a long way since Cyrus and James Clark and the ‘Brown Petersburg’. But their vision and passion live on in our shoes. You could say we’re following in their footsteps.