Store Manager

Our Outlet store in Essendon is seeking a results-driven, customer-focused, dynamic Store Manager to deliver exceptional customer service, lead a brilliant team and inspire great performance. This is a permanent, full time role (76 hours per fortnight).

**As a Store Manager at Williams Sonoma Inc., you will**:

- Build and develop a strong team, fostering a high performance work environment within our People First culture.
- Coach, train and motivate your team through on-going programs in sales, customer service and product knowledge building.
- Develop and empower your management team to take on increased levels of responsibility.
- Ensure the store meets or exceeds sales, contest and payroll goals.
- Ensure your team provides an exceptional customer experience.
- Ensure store standards are met and maintained - visuals, cleanliness, signage, safety, etc.
- Manage store operating procedures - inventory levels, cash control, minimising losses, etc.
- Maintain a safe work environment and ensure ongoing safety training and awareness.
- Create and ensure a positive environment where all associates are treated fairly and with dignity, in accordance with our People-First Philosophy.

**We think you’ll be successful in this role if you**:

- Have experience in retail management, ideally in homewares and / or specialty retail.
- Have forklift (walking) experience.
- Have a hands-on and creative approach, with an eye for opportunties to take returned or damaged stock and create something new.
- Are passionate about “owning your business” and being empowered to make decisions that best support the needs of the business.
- Are a results-oriented, influential leader who loves to coach, mentor, motivate, inspire and help grow your team in order to meet and exceed goals.
- Thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and are consistently looking for ways to think outside the box.
- Are passionate about customer service and enhancing our customers’ lives at home, and are not afraid to go above and beyond to exceed a customers’ expectations to close a sale.
- Are an agile leader and can think on your feet - you’re comfortable with flexing your schedule and prioritizing to ensure business goals are achieved.
- Have the critical thinking skills to creatively identify challenges, think through complex issues, and develop action plans in a timely manner.
- Have excellent communication, organisation and leadership skills.
- Have a proven ability to manage a team to exceed sales goals, while meeting payroll goals.
- Have a nack for identifying top talent, creating teams, and training, developing and retaining great people.

**You’ll love working here because**:

- We’re a successful, global, fast-growing, data-driven company with an entrepreneurial vibe.
- We offer competitive salaries and a generous discount on all Williams Sonoma Inc. brands.
- We love to promote internally, and offer many development opportunities through training, coaching and cross-brand and cross-function career moves.
- We’re passionate about where we’ve come from, but we’re pushing forward, redefining retail for the next generation.
- We live and breathe client experience.
- We have a smart, experienced leadership team that are open to fresh ideas.
- We believe in autonomy and reward you for taking initiative.
- We get to be creative daily and we have fun

Please note, this is a **permanent, full-time role (76 hours per fortnight) **with a **fixed four-week rotating roster **. Only those holding the required **work rights **in Australia will be considered.

Williams-Sonoma Australia Pty Ltd. is a multi-channel specialty retailer of high quality products for the home.

In 1956, our founder, Chuck Williams, turned a passion for cooking and eating with friends into a small business with a big idea. He opened a store in Sonoma, California, to sell the French cookware that intrigued him while visiting Europe but that could not be found in America. Chuck's business, which set a standard for customer service, took off and helped fuel a revolution in American cooking and entertaining that continues today. In the decades that followed, the quality of our products, our ability to identify new opportunities in the market and our people-first approach to business have facilitated our expansion beyond the kitchen into nearly every area of the home. Additionally, by embracing new technologies and customer-engagement strategies as they emerge, we are able to continually refine our best-in-class approach to multi-channel retailing.

Today, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is one of the United States' largest e-commerce retailers with some of the best known and most beloved brands in home furnishings. Established in Australia in 2013, Williams-Sonoma Australia Pty Ltd. currently operates 20 retail locations and 4 e-commerce websites, and employs more than 350 people across corporate and retail operations.

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