Duty Manager

**Brighter Futures Start here**

As Australia’s biggest and most loved retailer, we’ve been brightening up everyday life for families for over 50 years. At our stores, distribution centres, and offices in Australia and New Zealand. All around the globe. Our diverse and inclusive 47,000 strong team come together for a common cause. Giving families easy access to our on-trend products and incredibly low prices - it’s the heart of everything we do.

As a leader in the retail market, we’re optimistic about our future and yours. We’re relentless in our pursuit for results, but changing at a rapid rate, giving you challenging work that you’ll be proud of. We celebrate your uniqueness and individuality. Because at Kmart it’s not just what you do, it’s who you are that makes every day living brighter.

**Join the team**

Duty managers at Kmart live and breathe the Kmart values and play a key role in ensuring the smooth operation of the store by managing the store and leading the team during the span of trading hours in absence of the Store Manager. Our teams are passionate about the work they do and strive to continuously raise the bar

With over 20 stores operating 24 hours a day and all other stores open during extended trading hours, Kmart is now easily accessible for our customers whenever they choose to shop. To ensure we provide a continued service during these extended trading hours, we have a Duty Manager overseeing the operations of the store.

This role is a 6 month Part Time contract of approximately 26 hours per week comprising of shifts mainly in the evenings and weekends.

**What you’ll be doing**

As a Duty Manager in a Kmart store you will:

- Enjoy leading others
- Play a key role in improving our safety culture and results for the store
- Like variety in your work
- Think on your feet
- Follow policy and clear processes
- Ensure good communication and information sharing with team members
- Adapt to change Demonstrate resilience

**To be successful in this role you’ll have**:

- A solid background in retail, ideally with demonstrated experience working in a supervisory/team leader role
- A passion for delivering results that will motivate your team
- Excellent time management and problem-solving skills
- Values that reflect a high level of commitment to ‘safety’, always thinking ‘customer’ and a belief in constantly motivating your team to ‘reach higher’ every day
- The ability to foster strong relationships with team members, peers, customers, and leaders

**Benefits we’ll offer you**:

- Great work life balance - our duty managers work a part time rotating roster
- A dynamic learning and support program
- A discount card for Kmart, Target, Officeworks and Bunnings, plus other benefits
- An inclusive, fun recognition program
- Development opportunities across Kmart Group (comprised of Kmart, Target and Catch) as well as the broader Wesfarmers Group. A rotating roster

**We’re here to make everyday living brighter**

From humble beginnings in Burwood East, Victoria, in 1969, we’re now an essential part of 300 communities, and proud of it From bedding to apparel to kitchenware and beyond. We’re designing and creating the products people reach for every day. In-store, online, or Click & Collect - getting the products we love into the hands of happy customers is what we aim to do best. From the remote outback to coastal towns and big cities, and everywhere in-between. We’re progressive in our pursuit to create seamless customer journeys for satisfied shoppers.

**A place you can belong**

**We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.