Assistant Athletics Manager - Dyehard Iowa State - Cys Locker Room - Follett

Join the Follett Team, where employees are valued, respected, and offered career paths throughout its many campus locations.

Follett serves over half of the students in the United States and works with 80,000 schools as a leading provider of education technology, services, and print and digital content. We're higher education's largest campus retailer and a hub for school spirit and community as we operate nearly 1,200 local campus stores and over 1,600 virtual stores across the continent. We take pride in the fact that for more than 140 years, we have been helping to improve people's lives by supporting a lifetime of learning and education.

Pay Rate - $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Job Description

As an Assistant Athletics Retail Manager, you will support a Athletics Retail Manager in oversight of store operations. You will be responsible for driving results through sales growth while delivering the highest level of brand and operational excellence throughout the store by ensuring your team delivers an engaging customer service experience.

You will cultivate an environment of mentorship and continuous development of your team members while staying engaged in financial metrics and store performance and support an Athletics Retail Manager with overall store operations.

Consistently demonstrate Follett Values -- One Team, Innovate & Create, Put People First, Do What's Right, Own the Results, Stand for Inclusion. Demonstrate proficiency in Follett Strategic Core Competencies -- Thought, Results, People, and Self. You are required to maintain an availability that meets business needs.

The Assistant Manager supports all areas of the retail operation. The Assistant Manager will work a rotating, full-time schedule, including days, nights, weekends, and extended hours on game days and during events.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the work activities of part-time team members and Temporary staff including:
  • Schedules team members' work hours
  • Trains new team members and seasonal team members hired for peak seasons
  • Ensures Team members follow company and store policies, procedures, and standards
  • Ensures the proper merchandising standards, promotion standards, creating displays, etc.
• Performs onboarding procedures for new hires.
• Partners to create and maintain a hassle-free customer service culture, focused on solutions-based selling and an exceptional customer experience.
• Operate point of sale system and inventory management system
• Stock shelves and take inventory per schedule.
• May provide general Store cleaning (vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, and dusting) and straightening (shelves, displays, and register areas).
• Executes merchandising standards, promotion standards, creating displays, etc.
• Keyholder with opening and closing responsibilities.
• Use creative merchandising techniques in the presentation of products; and constantly keep product levels filled, restocked, and rotated to ensure sales at all gameday locations are maximized.
• Assist with the gameday buildout and merchandising of all retail locations.
• Meet, greet, and interact with customers to ensure their needs are met with exemplary customer service
• Ensure the stockroom and/or warehouse is properly maintained and organized.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements

Education, Experience, and Requirements

• An Associate's Degree or equivalent is preferred.
• 0-5 years of retail or bookstore experience preferred. Prior supervisory experience preferred.
• General Computer Skills
• Availability to work extended hours on game days and during events

Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Possess a fun, professional demeanor.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a team in fast-paced environments, servicing a diverse fan base
• Ability to maintain high standards of organization and cleanness
• Proven ability to overcome obstacles while maintaining a positive, can-do attitude
• Strong verbal communication skills

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit, stand, reach, bend, and move about the facility as needed.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 30 lbs.
• Game Day scheduling may be exposed to weather elements (rainy, windy, cold, high temperatures, etc.) if the assigned location is outside the team shop.
• Must be able to stand and move about the location for 8 to 10 hours as needed

Full-time benefits: 

• Medical, Dental, & Vison
• Voluntary Insurance plans
• 401k 100% company match (up to 4%)
• 80 hours vacation sick days
• 10 paid company holidays
• Quarterly Bonus Plan

Equal Opportunity Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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