Assistant Store Manager

Hotel Chocolat Group plc
Lakewood, New Jersey, US
Full-time

Hotel Chocolat has built a strong position as the UK’s favourite premium chocolate brand.

A variety of soft skills and experience may be required for the following role Please ensure you check the overview below carefully.

We offer a range extending from luxury giftable chocolates to alcohol and our pioneering drinking chocolate system; the Velvetiser.

Our mission is to make people happy through chocolate. Customers, colleagues, cacao farmers and suppliers can all benefit from the success we make together.

We’re looking for an Assistant Store Manager to support and lead the retail and cafe team, alongside the Store Manager.

You’ll be a people-focused and confident leader with spirit and passion in line with our products, people, and values, to drive the team both operationally and commercially to achieve sales and deliver 100% happiness through chocolate to every customer.

Responsibilities :

  • Support the Store Manager in providing excellent leadership to inspire, coach and develop your team members to meet their performance goals through effective communication of the Hotel Chocolat vision and values.
  • Drive store sales and profit plan and take action to maximise performance.
  • Aim to exceed store sales targets and KPIs through clear and effective communication to your team.
  • Maximise all commercial opportunities in-store through timely implementation of promotions, offers and marketing initiatives.

Who You Are & What You Have :

  • Experience in a seasonally busy and bespoke selling environment, ideally within a luxury brand or retailer.
  • Demonstrable experience in high service guest interaction.
  • Natural leadership qualities to get the best of your high performing team both individually and as a whole.
  • A passion for chocolate, our brand and for giving the best service to our guests.

What We Offer :

  • Incentives based on performance
  • 50% unlimited staff discount to treat yourself and your friends and family
  • 70% discount off a stay in our Hotel in St Lucia
  • We recognise that our employees may wish to balance their work and family / home life and therefore we are open to discussions around flexible working
  • A chance to work in an exciting, innovative and expanding company

If you want to be part of the team spreading happiness through chocolate, click Apply and we’ll be in touch!

At Hotel Chocolat, we treat each other with respect, equality and grace. Our mantra? Be brave. Be kind.

This People Pledge is underpinned by our values of Originality, Authenticity and Ethics. We encourage new ideas and fresh thinking and for each of you to bring your ORIGINALITY to work.

We want you to be your AUTHENTIC self and feel comfortable to share your differences, and what makes you unique. Our commitment to being an ETHICAL business means we have a deep sense of fairness when it comes to the way we treat one another.

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