Assistant Store Manager

Morphe was born in 2008 among the artists and influencers in Los Angeles. Finally. A beauty brand created for the creators. For the dreamers. For those looking for killer makeup without killing their wallet. A place where our #MorpheBabe can let their passion and creativity for beauty fly high. We're more than just a brand; we're a ride-or-die fam.

The Assistant Store Manager assists in driving sales and operations through exceptional customer service; motivating high performance people, and driving profitable growth & achievement of financial goals and KPI’s such as brand expression, engagement, retention, conversion, payroll, and inventory. The Assistant Manager is an integral part of the selling floor and backroom, focusing on the service provided to the Morphe babes visiting the store and also ensuring the store operations are being run smoothly and accurately to the Morphe standard.

**Sales**
- Responsible for driving sales to meet or exceed targets and assisting the Manager in meeting all store financial goals.
- Executes and drives traffic for company driven promotions and launches to meet and exceed sales targets and deliver the best experience possible for customers.
- Assist with local events ensuring a successful execution as directed by the Store Manager.

**Service**
- Prioritize time in store on the selling floor; coaching and developing the team; and leading by example.
- Positive representative of the Morphe brand.
- Deliver the full Morphe customer service experience, catering to the customers’ needs in store and optimizing makeup stations and makeup studios, where applicable.
- Consistently elevate their own artistry skills and the artistry skills of the team.
- Develops knowledge of trends in industry to provide best service possible and share with the squad.

**Leadership**
- Assists the Store Manager with people management in store, recruiting, training, counseling and developing top talent to grow within the organization.
- Participate and advocate for all trainings, support all trainings and assist the Store Manager in ensuring they were delivered on brand and the desired artistry and service knowledge/skills were built with every employee in store. Facilitate trainings for store team as assigned.
- Responsible to support a productive and dynamic Morphe squad by connecting with employees, customers, and influencers. These must be strong relationships and connections founded on the common passion for makeup.
- Confident and skillful coach and manager to the team. Comfortable navigating difficult conversation, with professionalism, poise and kindness; actively provide coaching and feedback to develop employees in their position and help them grow.
- Creates an environment where clear and fair expectations are set and all employees are treated with respect.
- Step in to fulfill responsibilities of Store Manager or Associate Manager - Ops as needed.

**Operations**
- Responsible for knowing, following and administering all company policies and procedures.
- Ensures communications are filtered to the team as directed by the Store Manager and Associate Manager - Ops.
- Acts to reduce LP and product returns/damages. Alerts the Store Manager or Associate Manager - Ops to any concerns immediately.
- Assist with management of the schedule. Manages changes to posted schedules to maintain optimal schedules that provide the best customer service is provided.
- Reviews and approves Timekeeping records for the staff as needed. Assists in maintaining record keeping standards.
- Assists with merchandising updates and management of in-store inventory levels.
- Assists with visual displays and executes the floor set with precision and on time.
- Assists in maintaining the production space, where applicable.
- Ensure consistent standards of cleanliness, maintenance and organization.
- Provide feedback to the Store Manager to inform improvements that are needed.

**Qualifications**
- 3-5 years retail experience including some management, previous sales experience required.
- Excellent customer service, communication and organizational skills.
- Proven operation excellence
- Passion for Makeup and cosmetic artistry experience preferred
- Demonstrated ability to independently solve moderate to complex problems.
- Demonstrates flexibility and initiative with mínimal direction.
- Demonstrated ability to support business growth and exhibit professional behavior.
- Have and maintain flexible availability. Must have open flexibility to work during peak traffic times including evenings, weekends and holiday's.
- No recruitment agencies, please._