Assistant Store Manager

About The Role

• Retail experience essential
• Women's fashion & styling exposure highly regarded
• Part Time with opportunity to flex up
• Availability to work Monday, Wednesday, Friday + Weekends (every 2nd Sunday)

We are looking for an extraordinary and passionate Assistant Store Manager to join forces with our Store Manager and and take our South Yarra store to all new heights

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Delivering exceptional service and the ELK experience to existing and prospective customers
• Maintaining a loyal customer base and actively building community connections
• Outfitting, styling, upselling and on-selling our timeless range by engaging customers with aesthetic features and sustainable benefits
• Sharing the responsibility of driving smooth and efficient store operations
• Coaching, mentoring and elevating team members by consistently leading by example
• Supporting store operations to ensure performance is efficient, productive and in line with expectations
• Analysing store and team performance and recommending change for ongoing growth and development
• Assisting with the management of rosters
• Merchandising and maintenance of store visual presentation in line with guidelines
• Talent scouting for potential new joiners
• Living and breathing ELK as a true brand ambassador

What We'll Love About You:

• Experience managing and leading a team within a retail (or similar) environment essential
• Proven experience overseeing the effective and profitable daily operations of a retail store ensuring optimum efficiency, productivity, and performance to budgets
• Ability to deliver exceptional customer service with a natural flair for making genuine connections with others
• Ability to excel in a team environment, nurturing and supporting those around you

In Return We Offer:

• Values based business genuinely focused on ethical, sustainable, circular fashion
• A highly collaborative, nurturing work environment
• Generous uniform allowance to showcase our product while working
• Market leading product discounts for you, your family & friends
• Opportunities to grow your career with ELK
• 2 days paid Volunteer Leave every year
• Your birthday off every year
• Opportunities to increase your earnings through our generous profit sharing bonus scheme

About ELK

At ELK, we nurture an open, inclusive workplace, valuing authenticity, transparency and community and celebrate individual strengths. We strive to ensure our team reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we work. We embrace the opportunity to welcome talent who are passionate not just about what we do but why we do it, irrespective of background, life stage, identity, and ability. Join us on our journey as a responsible business, making better products for a healthier planet.

How To Apply

If this sounds like you, apply here or reach out to us at for a copy of the Position Description and to find out more.

As part of your application, please provide a cover letter detailing why you're the perfect candidate.

This is a part-time role based in store, as such we are unable to consider sponsorship or remote work for this role.

A pioneer of Australian design, ELK was established in 2004 in Melbourne, Australia. The ELK aesthetic holds a unique place within the international fashion landscape. With a highly considered approach by brand founders Marnie and Adam, ELK collections resonate with their global audience through sustainable and ethical practices, design refinement, trend curation and an intellect that is innately their own. Their sculptural accessories, hand-made leather and ready-to-wear collections define their artful vision while their devotion to ethical and sustainable practices has endured them as a leader in the practice of responsible innovation for the fashion industry. At ELK, we nurture an open, inclusive workplace, valuing authenticity, transparency and community and celebrate individual strengths. We strive to ensure our team reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we work. We embrace the opportunity to welcome talent who are passionate not just about what we do but why we do it, irrespective of background, life stage, identity, and ability. Join us on our journey as a responsible business, making better products for a healthier planet.