Assistant Store Manager

7 hours ago


Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Early Settler Full time
Overview

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Early Settler is about stylish modern living - We sell furniture and gorgeous homewares that are affordable and designed to help create a home you truly love living in. There's no place like home and, no matter what your style, we've got something to make yours even more comfy and beautiful.

What is the Role

We are looking for a passionate and dynamic Assistant Store Manager to join our Rutherford store working a flexible roster including weekends.

You'll play a pivotal role in:

  • Leading and coaching a team of passionate retail professionals
  • Driving sales performance and customer service excellence
  • Embedding operational consistency across your region
  • Supporting a people-first culture aligned to our core values

We're not just hiring for a job — we're looking for a true leader who's ready to influence and support the future of our stores. The Assistant Store Manager role is a dynamic retail leadership position where your retail expertise and leadership capability will be pivotal in supporting our Store Manager drive store performance, foster customer centric culture and uplift team capability, all whilst living our Early Settler Values.

Key Responsibilities
  • Partner with Store Manager to drive sales performance and achieve targets through effective selling of merchandise
  • Work with our customers to make their vision for their home a reality - provide styling solutions and recommendations, upsell and cross-sell ascertaining customer needs
  • Coach and guide the retail sales team to achieve targets and create a unique shopping experience that delivers exceptional customer service
  • Support day-to-day store operations including rostering, financial performance, administrative tasks, recruiting and onboarding of new team members
  • Support in developing and implementing strategies that maximise both sales and customer service targets thereby driving store performance
Who are we looking for

With a strong retail background, commercial acumen and passion for customer service, you are someone who thrives in a team environment and knows how to bring out the best in people. You bring energy, resilience and a hands-on approach to everything you do - and you are ready to take the next step into retail leadership

  • 2-3+ years experience in retail sales with a proven track record of achieving targets
  • Strong commercial acumen and a results-driven mindset that turns strategies into success stories
  • Ability to coach, guide and motivate teams to deliver exceptional customer service
  • Resourceful with a can-do attitude and ability to solve problems and provide solutions
  • Able to balance customer care, team development and administrative tasks
  • A genuine interest in home-styling, furniture or creating welcoming living spaces is a plus
  • Be keen as beans to live our values #WeAddValue, #WeAreDistinctive, #WeMakeItPersonal, #WeAreExperts, #WeKeepItReal
  • As we are a furniture store, ability to undertake lifting and work in a physical environment
  • Applicants must be AU citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in Australia and hold a valid visa
Benefits
  • Amazing team member discounts on our fabulous products
  • Holistic Wellbeing programs to support you to be your best self
  • Career Development Opportunities
  • Fun, Supportive and collaborative team environment

We understand a lot of time and effort goes into applying for roles and we genuinely thank all applicants in advance. Due to the volume of applications we receive, only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

Job details
  • Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type: Full-time
  • Job function: Sales and Business Development
  • Industries: Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing

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