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Department Manager Cycling

Location: 

Milton Keynes, GB, MK13 8PU

Contracted Hours:  39
Salary:  26000
Sport:  Cycling

THE MISSION  

As a Department Manager, you'll be growing a dynamic business within the department you’re in charge of to empower and develop your team; all to ensure that your local customers can get everything they need in your department to practice their favourite sports. Most importantly, you have to ensure they have an amazing shopping experience in the process.

Through a 3-month training period that covers business operations and management basics, you will face new adventures and challenges every day but with the support of your team.  In a nutshell, your responsibilities will include:

Team leadership:

  • Recruit, train, and manage a team of Sport Advisors (sales assistants)
  • Mentor and lead the development of each team member within your department
  • Foster a collaborative and motivated work environment
  • Set performance goals and provide ongoing feedback
  • Conduct performance evaluations and manage scheduling effectively.


Sales and Customer Service:

  • Set sales goals and drive the team to achieve these targets 
  • Ensure excellent customer service 
  • Ensure that your team is trained to provide product knowledge and assistance to customers.


Merchandising and Inventory Management:

  • Ensure top-level and organized department displays 
  • Manage inventory levels, including restocking and inventory counts.
  • Ensure that campaign materials and visual merchandising policies are implemented 


Commercial Strategies:

  • In collaboration with our Commercial Team, prepare a commercial plan and stay updated on product knowledge within the department
  • Together with your store leader, define the product range to be offered to customers and sport practitioners 


Reporting and Analysis:

  • Generate and analyze sales reports and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Use data to make informed decisions and adjustments to department strategies 


Secure operational efficiency by becoming a Duty Manager

  • Implement and maintain operational procedures and policies during assigned duty hours 
  • Lead the overall operational function of the store during assigned duty hours 
  • Ensure compliance with company policies and safety regulations

THE PROFILE

  • An energetic self-starter preferably with strong leadership skills and a love for sport
  • People-centric and has a strong sense of service to help others
  • A game changer who can innovate retail
  • A motivational person who nurtures the development of others
  • Invested in the development of yourself and others

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
As a Department Manager, you will be required to work usual retail hours including evenings and weekends.

BENEFITS


Get to enjoy the following benefits and perks:
Annual remuneration reviews

  • Healthy employee discount on all Decathlon products
  • Weekly Staff Sports/Activities
  • Cycle-to-Work Scheme
  • Intensive Learning and Development training via Decathlon Academy

… and many more

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Your Responsibilities:

  • Team Player –The business and the customer always comes first, together with your colleagues you will ensure that your in-store business is commercial and efficient day to day.
  • Digital – As retail continues to evolve, you will have the freedom to discover new ways to build your brand through social media and other digital channels.
  • Partnerships – Once your business is thriving in store and online, you can reach out into your community and work with your local sport clubs/schools/businesses to develop partnerships. Here is where you will apply your networking skills in order to strengthen your brand and to make your sport accessible within your community.
  • Customer Service – Your customers will always be your number one priority, you will have the means to listen to their feedback in order to make improvements to your business. At Decathlon we ensure that all our customers remain loyal through our Satisfied or Satisfied policy.
  • Brand - You will build the best product offering for your customer. You’ll choose all of your ranges within your sport, adapting your business to the current market. You will organise events in your local area to increase brand awareness and customer participation in sport.

Who are you?

  • Someone looking to take the next step within their retail career.
  • Commercially focused
  • Open-minded with a natural sense of service to help others.
  • Self-motivated with a clear passion for sport.
  • Team player who thrives in fast paced and changing environments.
  • Digitally competent with an entrepreneurial mind-set.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

As a Department Manager, you will be required to work usual retail hours including evenings and weekends.

 

ABOUT DECATHLON

International. Lovers of sports. Team players. Stronger together through our love of sports. At Decathlon UK, we provide Careers That Let You Play. We are driven by our mission to help more people in the UK get physically active and healthy. We are a part of the DECATHLON Group, one of the world’s leading sporting goods retailers. Headquartered in France, DECATHLON specializes in the creation of sports products and their distribution online and in stores at more than 1,700 locations in 61 countries. In the UK, it has over 50 stores nationwide and an e-commerce site that caters to nationwide delivery.

We’re an international sports retailer with 2080 stores in 56 countries, and if you look a little closer, you’ll see we’re so much more. Decathlon is dedicated to helping, inspiring and guiding you through your sports experiences. We believe that discovering new sports and being active – well, it’s an important part of life – and living well shouldn’t just be for a privileged few.


Decathlon is committed to inclusion and non-discrimination, and thus acts on a daily basis in favor of disability, a multi-generational workforce, social diversity, and equality between women and men. If, due to a disability, you require any special accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know. At Decathlon, first and foremost, we are recruiting personality and character.

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