Store Manager

Puffing Kiwi is looking for a full time store manager to drive success to the next level for our Mount wellington or Auckland CBD store.

Puffing Kiwi is a Specialist Vaping Wholesaler and Retailer with a state-of-the-art store design and a great range of vaping products

About the role We are looking for a young, energetic, highly self-motivated and driven by commissions store manager, who will take responsibility for the day to day running of the store and prides themselves on a friendly approachable nature, and a solid focus on customer service, to help make a change to people’s lives and switch them from tobacco to a healthier lifestyle through Vaping or E-cigarettes. This role will suit someone who is looking for that next step in their career from being either an assistant store manager/junior store manager, who has great ideas and wants that opportunity to take ownership and execute them.

We have a fun and friendly team who are committed to growing the business and we are looking for individuals who are share the same values and are looking to grow with us

Your attributes:

• Retail management experience required
• Have a good understanding of how vaping, and vaping hardware works (not essentially but preferred)
• Experience in a competitive retail environment preferred
• A friendly and positive team-based attitude
• A drive to succeed in a very rewarding industry
• Driven to grow and develop your career

Responsibilities:

• Achieving store sales targets
• Providing customer and market feedback and developing strategies to achieve store targets
• Understand their local competitors and drive sales strategies to gain market share and increase sales
• Inventory management
• Management of retail sales assistants to ensure they are hitting their KPI’’s and creating weekly rosters
• Working in the store to provide sales advice and knowledge to customers and process sales transactions
• Training of staff
• Ensuring all marketing and pricing activities are executed correctly and promptly
• Maintaining stock levels, receipting stock and ensuring stock is properly displayed in store
• Overall responsibility for the day to day running of the retail store
• Managing the online store chat and dispatching of goods for both local and overseas customers

This is not a 9 to 5 job it involves taking ownership of the role, and as such you must be available after hours, weekends and public holidays.