Retail Sales Lead

Sales Lead Position at Wayfair Outlet Store

Come join the team that is reinventing home! Wayfair is hiring a Sales Lead for our returns Outlet retail store in Greensboro, NC! If you are looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, Wayfair's Outlet store might be the future home for your career.

Employee Perks:

• Full medical, dental, vision

Matching 401k

Generous Employee Discount of up to 30%+, although discounts will vary by product type.

Competitive compensation

What you'll do:

As an authentic brand ambassador for the Wayfair family, lead and create a best in class customer experience by connecting them with the world's biggest and best home online assortment brought to life in our stores.

Master our brand story and be able to share our brand with polished communication, personal appearance, and professionalism.

Maintain leadership presence through effective floor management and resource allocation.

Deliver on sales and service KPIs, productivity standards, and drive profitability goals across all omni channel platforms with best in class selling standards.

Work to amplify the Wayfair brand family by being an integral part of a high performing customer centric team.

Manage and monitor stock levels, merchandise adjacencies, presentations, signing, and assortment in all departments to ensure the sales-floor is adequately stocked. Maintain visual standards required by Wayfair.

Ensure the store meets visual, replenishment, cleanliness, safety, and back of house standards during floor leadership shifts.

Utilize sales analytics tools to drive store profitability, traffic, loyalty, and growth in a way that supports the success of the overall brand.

Perform opening and closing routines and provide supervision to ensure the store is meeting financial goals and associates are providing best in class service to our customers.

Master selling essentials and training resources to educate the team on our wide array of product assortment.

Participate in operational store activities as needed: bringing new products to the floor, floor sets, replenishment, substitutions, and general store upkeep.

Engage in a high energy and dynamic work environment where there can be rapid changes in products, promotions, offerings, and operations.

Live by, emulate, and guide by our People Principles every day.

As Keyholder, you are responsible for opening and closing the store

What you'll need:

2+ years of leadership or experience managing a team.

• Brick & mortar retail experience in furniture or home goods preferred.
• Track record of thriving in a fast paced and changing environment

Strong organization, self-motivation, communication, and relationship management skills.

Technical acumen to learn necessary software; experience with Google Cloud G Suite, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and forms preferred.

All store positions require constant physical activity, including standing, walking, and reaching. All employees are expected to climb ladders, bend and kneel to obtain products for customers and to maintain the visual appearance of the store. Employees should be able to lift up to 50 lbs.

Essential Functions:

Excellent verbal communication skills.

Excellent active listening skills.

Excellent sales and customer service skills.

Ability to anticipate customers' needs.

• Ability to operate or to quickly learn the stores point-of-sale system
• Technical acumen to learn necessary software; experience with Google Cloud G Suite, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and forms preferred.

Ability to process information and merchandise through a computer system and POS register system.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, talk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; regularly climb or balance; and frequently stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly, frequently, or occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Working Hours:

At Wayfair and our family of brands, we strive to provide our employees with a work schedule that protects their work/life balance and takes their scheduling preferences into consideration. Please understand due to the nature of the retail industry, your shift schedule will vary. However, we will work to provide you with your schedule a minimum of 2 weeks in advance, and you will have the opportunity to trade with teammates as needed.

Our store hours are Monday -Thursday: 10AM-8PM; Friday -Saturday: 10AM-9PM; Sunday: 10AM-7PM. Employee shifts may include an hour before or after store hours.

Employment to this role will be contingent on successful completion of a background check.

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.