Assistant Manager, Guest Experience
Lululemon
Scarborough Ontario
Salary: Neg Per Hour
Core Responsibilities
of the Job
Leadership and People Management
- Create and foster a respectful and inclusive team
environment by welcoming and celebrating differences to ensure a
supportive, productive, and fun experience for all team members.
- Engage team members by helping them understand how
their work supports the success of the store and of lululemon overall.
- Implement the Store Manager’s People vision for the
store and cascade to team members.
- Support Store Manager in hiring and building a strong
and diverse team that includes team members with various experiences, backgrounds,
and skillsets to drive key results and performance.
- Support ongoing learning and development of team
members consistently and equitably by providing direct feedback, coaching,
mentoring, and continuous development check-ins.
- Lead performance management activities, including
direct feedback and continuous check-ins, facilitating team
acknowledgement and rewards, managing performance documentation, and
addressing performance concerns.
- Address employee concerns or issues, including knowing
when to partner with internal support to take appropriate action.
Guest Experience and
Community
- Lead an exceptional guest (customer) experience on the
floor through assessing the level of guest connection and technical
product education and supporting team members to address gaps through
feedback and coaching.
- Provide retail floor leadership to team members,
including making in-the-moment decisions to maintain efficiency and
effectiveness of retail floor coverage and operations.
- Resolve guest feedback and address emergent issues,
including guest escalations and urgent requests, helping to "make it
right" for guests.
Operations, Product,
and Strategy
- Partner with other managers to review business data and
metrics (e.g., profit and loss [P&L] statement) to inform planning
processes (e.g., quarterly business review, sales planning, and hiring
strategy).
- Maintain strategic product presentation/visual
merchandising by ensuring product recovery, restock (e.g., pant wall, size
store), destock, or minor visual merchandizing changes are accomplished.
- Open and close the store in accordance with the opening
and closing procedures.
- Understand and adhere to people safety policies and
procedures to maintain a safe work environment.
- Perform work in accordance with applicable policies,
procedures, and laws or regulations.
Budget Responsibility
- Accountable for delegated aspects of controllable
budget and labor hours
People Management
- Leadership role directly responsible for subset of
store employees as delegated by Store Manager
What We Look For
- Inclusion & Diversity: Creates/supports an
inclusive environment that values/celebrates differences
- Integrity: Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical
manner
- Leadership: Is able and desires to lead and inspire
others; motivates, empowers, develops, and directs people as they work
- Guest Experience: Actively creates an inclusive,
high-caliber experience and connection for every guest through team
members
- Team Building: Creates and develops teams that maximize
accomplishments; encourages unique contributions and different
perspectives
- Decision Making/Problem Solving: Uses logic and
reasoning to evaluate alternatives and make effective, timely decisions
- Strategic Thinking: Sets strategies that are aligned to
vision and values of the company to achieve goals/vision/further the
mission; considers the 'big picture' implications of decisions
- Change Management Leadership: Leads others through
change processes and uncertainty
- Interactive Communication: Conveys information
effectively and understands information shared while interacting with
others
Job Requirements
Eligibility
- Must be legally authorized to work in the country in
which the store is located
- Must have the ability to travel to assigned store with
reliable transportation methods
Schedule/Availability
- Work occurs on a variable schedule which could include
early mornings, mornings, afternoons, evenings, late nights or overnights
as well as weekends and holidays
Experience
- 1 year people management experience
- 1 year leadership experience, including experience
managing business operations and administration and managing projects or
processes
Job Assets (i.e., nice
to have; not required)
- Education: High school diploma, GED, or equivalent
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Experience: 1 year retail or sales specific management
experience
- Experience: 1 year recruiting, hiring, or training
employees
Work Context (e.g.,
environment, interactions, physical)
- Work occurs in an environment with bright lights and
loud music
- Work is accomplished as part of a team and also
independently
- Work may involve managing conflict or mediating
problems between others or deescalating guest issues
- Work involves reaching out to meet and build
relationships with strangers/new people, and to strengthen existing
community partnerships
- Work is sometimes conducted on a computer or other
technical devices, including to meet with others virtually
- Work involves moving through a store for most of a
shift to help guests and accomplish work, but can also involve sitting for
extended periods of time (i.e., more than 1 hour)
- Work may occasionally involve moving boxes weighing up
to 30 lbs (13.6 kg)
Compensation &
Benefits Package
- Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health
plans
- Paid time off
- Savings and retirement plan matching
- Generous employee discount
- Fitness & yoga classes
- Parenthood top-up
- Extensive catalog of development course offerings
- People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership
series (to name a few)
Job Overview
Posted Date: 30 Sep 2024
Location: Scarborough Ontario
Salary: Neg Per Hour
Company Information
Lululemon
Name: Lululemon
Web: https://shop.lululemon.com/