Store Manager Job In Dublin

Job Title: Retail Store Manager

Lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits.

As a Retail Store Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of sales associates and ensuring that the store operates efficiently and effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and foster a respectful and inclusive team environment and culture by welcoming and celebrating differences to ensure a supportive and engaging experience for team members and guests.
• Establish a vision for the store, based on key metrics and initiatives, and cascade to all team members.
• Build a strong and diverse team that includes team members with various experiences, backgrounds, and skillsets to drive store operations.
• Manage the store's hiring process, including recruitment, selection, and onboarding, ensuring a focus on IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity, and action) and other lululemon priorities.
• Support ongoing learning and development of all store team members consistently and equitably by providing direct feedback, coaching, mentoring, and career path guidance, and addressing performance concerns.
• Engage in career discussions to support and reinforce team understanding of how working at lululemon will contribute to career and personal growth.
• Provide team member recognition, gap assessment, and overall performance documentation to support and reinforce the career and personal growth of your team.
• Plan and prepare team member schedule according to labour requirements, availability, and budget considerations.
• Address all employee relations issues, including knowing when to partner with People and Culture (P&C) team to take appropriate action.

Working with Others:

• Establish supportive and productive relationships with all team members, focusing on personal and professional development.
• Collaborate with in-store team members to ensure optimal guest experience that values guests' time and support store operations.
• Guest Experience Support team members (e.g., leading by example or coaching) to ensure a great guest experience, including assessing guest needs, providing technical product education, and supporting in-store transactions and omnichannel programs (e.g., buy online pickup in store, phone sales, and ship from store options).
• Move dynamically on the floor to assess and fulfill the needs of the business, team, and guests.
• Address emergent issues, including guest escalations and emergency requests.

Operations:

• Manage whole store profit and loss (P&L) in accordance with goals (sales, budget, etc.).
• Plan and execute high-level quarterly and annual planning for store with respect to strategy, budget, and labour (including recruiting and training/development).
• Plan floor coverage and make decisions to maintain efficiency and effectiveness of floor operations.
• 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.

Key Skills & Core Values:

• Inclusion & Diversity: Creates/supports an inclusive environment that values/celebrates differences.
• Integrity/Honesty: Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner.
• Leadership: Is able and desires to lead, influence, and inspire others; motivates, empowers, develops, and directs people as they work.
• Decision Making: Uses logic and reasoning to evaluate alternatives and make effective, timely decisions.
• Adaptability/Agility: Tolerates uncertainty and ambiguity and can change priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Team Building: Creates and develops teams that maximize accomplishments; encourages unique contributions and different perspectives.
• 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.
• Resilience: Remains persistent; recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Change Management Leadership: Leads others through all phases of change processes and uncertainty.
• Business Acumen: Is able to quickly understand and address business information (e.g., profit and loss statements, budgets and sales forecasts, retail strategy and approaches).

Job Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the country in which the store is located.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have proof of the Right to Work and evidence relating to associated local legislative requirements (EMEA only).
• Must have the ability to travel to assigned store with own transportation methods.
• Availability: Willing to work a flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Other: Willingness Requirements: Willing to work as part of a team and also complete work independently or alone.
• Willing to work in an environment with bright lights and loud music.
• Willing to move through a store for most of a shift to help guests and accomplish work.
• Willing to move boxes weighing up to 30 lbs (13.6 kg).