An exciting opportunity to join a fun friendly, fast growing team!
Hampshire Blinds and Shutters is a family run business which has been trading for more than 12 years. We are looking for a motivated sales consultant to offer superb customer service and advice to our lovely customers.
Due to the fast innovation of our business plan we have bounced back from Covid and are stronger than before.
This has led us to expanding our brand and launching Hampshire Blinds & Shutters with a new showroom and gift shop opening in Alton high street.
This deputy manager role would be instrumental in the launch of this new store and creating a strong and loyal customer base.
If you are a forward thinker who enjoys a challenge then this is an exciting opportunity for you with a wide mixture of roles from merchandising in the shop to assisting in the showroom, while always offering our industry leading customer service.
Shop floor and showroom management:
– Welcoming our customers with a friendly attitude.
– Responsible for the customer experience from greeting customers to helping them complete their purchase.
– Talking to customer and offering the best advised for a window covering solution to suit their needs.
– Tech Savvy – Using a tablet to complete quotes and day to day admin duties.
– Being visible and central to the shop floor, ensuring its smooth day to day running.
– Welcoming our customers with a friendly attitude
– Assisting our customers and putting through their purchases
– Merchandising and managing the store windows, ensuring they are always clean and eye catching.
– Maintaining a stock system by completing regular stock counts.
– Providing feedback to your line manager and working with them implement new ideas.
– Striving to meet targets, coming up with new and innovate ideas to encourage new business and welcome customers into the store
– Understanding your local customer base and responding accordingly
– Able to achieve targets while keeping our no pressure approach
– Ensure that promotions and commercial changes are always implemented accurately.
– You will be independent and self-sufficient, confident in making clear decisions and being able to deliver a structured plan as to how you will achieve the business goals.
Attributes:
– Brilliant Leader, able to run the day to day of the store
– A friendly warm personality with a positive ‘can do’ attitude
– You use your own initiative, plan your own work and allocate time accordingly
– Able to juggle a number of priorities whilst still maintaining an excellent standard and working with pace.
– Able to work as part of a team and independently
– Highly motivated
– Willing to learn and a desire to achieve more
– Accept change and charged with a growth mindset
– Open and honest – even when things have gone wrong.
– To express a real enthusiasm and love for the store and company
Additional information about the role:
– Full time, 35 hours per week (5 days in 7)
– Tuesday – Saturday (Flexibility required)
– Based in Alton
In return we offer:
– Salary – competitive with the ability to earn bonuses on completion of a 90-day probationary period.
– Full training on the products will be given, please note some training will take place at our Farnham head office.
– Opportunities to progress and advance your career
– 20 days holiday pro rata
– Generous Staff Discount for Surrey Blinds & Shutters and Surrey Home & Gifts
– Job Type: Full-time
– Company pension
– The opportunity to join a fast-growing business with opportunities to expand your skills
