Assistant Store Manager

Title: Assistant Store Manager Category: Retail EmploymentType: Full-Time Location: MA - Boston - Prudential Center - 4710 LocationType: retail JobLocation: Boston, Massachusetts 02199 JobSummary: As an Assistant Store Manager (ASM), you support the Paper Source vision by providing customers with a place where they can find their own creativity and shop with us again and again. You enjoy working with people, are energized by your passion for helping customers and model excellent service every day. As the deputy to the store manager (SM), you focus on the look and consistent presentation of our stores, empowered to make decisions, ensuring the shopping experience for our customers is to their satisfaction. You communicate consistently with your store manager on your ideas to ensure this experience and drive this through our people, actively participating in team development. In your role, you ensure sales and profit through your ability to leverage resources which results in teams who can provide best in class service to our customers. As a leader, you work collaboratively with the team, inspiring creativity and ensuring you have a store where team members are happy and engaged doing what they enjoy: talking about and selling fun and creative products and services. As an Assistant Store Manager (ASM), you ensure the smooth running of your store through your strong leadership and deployment of the store team. Demonstrate effective ownership of key responsibilities to supervise and lead the store team and operations, ensuring smooth day-to-day routines & procedures. Hold the store team accountable for consistent standards appropriate for their position, addressing opportunities promptly and fairly. Manage developmental priorities within the team, ensuring well-rounded abilities and skill sets exist to meet the demands of the store and ensure that the potential of individual members is realized, working with the Store Manager, Area Manager, Regional Manager as needed. As an Assistant Store Manager who supports the Sales Leads, Senior Sales Leads, and Customer Sales Associates, you will be expected to be a leader and put the proper emphasis on building an incredible team and creating positive employee experiences. Success will come from your engagement and accountability in the ongoing commitment to our store’s talent as you recruit, interview, train, and develop talented team members. Support solid execution of associate rosters and schedules aligning with the budget and business needs so store scheduling is balanced and staffed to effectively and smoothly run the store, collaborating with Store Manager, Area Manager or Regional Manager as appropriate. As an ASM you will continue to develop your leadership skills to effectively guide and direct the Sales Leads, Sr. Sales Leads, and Customer Sales Associates and to hold this team accountable to strong, consistent performance. You will continue to deliver results through the ability to effectively and strategically lead, supervise, motivate, and ensure accountability of your team to perform in a performance driven culture. What You Do Ensure consistent, friendly and informed service to customers, first by the example you set and second by the training and delivery of best-in-class service by the store team. Ensure a vibrant store through the execution of visual merchandising and replenishment standards, showing a commitment to maintaining a neat, tidy, shoppable and inviting presentation. Drive top line sales by guiding the entire team to leverage key campaigns and services, such as new item launches, promotions, enterprise orders, etc., to actively hand sell and engage in conversation with every customer. Partner and provide insight and ongoing feedback on associate achievements and/or performance concerns. As an Assistant Manager you will be expected to provide meaningful input for performance reviews, hiring decisions, associate promotions, and disciplinary decisions. Communicating examples and contributing to the creation of documentation as appropriate. Develop the Sr. Sales Leads, Sales Leads, and Customer Sales Associates, through engagement and coaching; work with the team by providing performance feedback to assess and focus on individual strengths, and when associates’ interests align, work to train and advance their potential for career pathing within the company. Provide coaching through their experiences, observations and examples with associates, and play an active role to assess when performance merits to recommend the associate for further development in the store. Assess the store from the customer’s perspective and use insight to seek and influence improvements. Drive results during assigned Manager on Duty (MOD) segments by delivering sales and behaviors that meet the store’s performance targets and coaching other store team leaders to develop MOD skills. Ensure the achievement of sales goals and deliver operational excellence to maximize efficiency and minimize loss through timely execution of all processes. Ensure compliance to Company standards #J-18808-Ljbffr Paper Source, Inc.