Who are we?
Early Settler is about stylish modern living – we sell furniture and gorgeous homewares that are affordable and designed to help create a home you truly love living in. There's no place like home, and no matter what your style, we've got something to make yours even more comfy and beautiful.
Why Join Us?
Here at Early Settler, we are looking for people who share our innate passion for providing exceptional customer experience. We love what we do and we love to support each other to hit our goals.
This is how we get the best of we with the best of me!
To support our most important asset, YOU, we provide you with:
* Amazing team member discounts on our fabulous products
* Holistic Wellbeing programs to support you to be your best self
* Career Development Opportunities
* Fun, Supportive and collaborative team environment
Description What is the Role?
We are looking for a passionate and dynamic Assistant Store Manager to join our Cannington store working a Tuesday‐Saturday roster.
The Assistant Store Manager role is a dynamic retail leadership position where your retail expertise and leadership capability will be pivotal in supporting our Store Manager to drive store performance, foster a customer‐centric culture and uplift team capability, all whilst living our Early Settler Values.
We're not just hiring for a job – we're looking for a true leader who's ready to influence and support the future of our stores.
Key Responsibilities:
* Partner with Store Manager to drive sales performance and achieve targets through effective selling of merchandise.
* Work with customers to make their vision for their home a reality – savvy with details and able to provide styling solutions and recommendations, upsell, and cross‐sell to ascertain customer needs.
* Coach and guide the retail sales team to achieve targets and create a unique shopping experience that delivers exceptional customer service.
* Support day‐to‐day store operations including rostering, financial performance, administrative tasks, recruiting, and onboarding of new team members.
* Support in developing and implementing strategies that can maximize both sales and customer service targets, thereby driving store performance.
Skills and Experiences:
With a strong retail background, commercial acumen, and passion for customer service, you thrive in a team environment and know how to bring out the best in people. You bring energy, resilience, and a hands‐on approach to everything you do – and you're ready to take the next step into retail leadership!
* 2‐3+ years experience in retail sales with a proven track record of achieving targets.
* Strong commercial acumen and a results‐driven mindset that turns strategies into success stories.
* Ability to coach, guide, and motivate teams to deliver exceptional customer service.
* Resourceful with a can‐do attitude and ability to solve problems and provide solutions.
* Able to balance customer care, team development, and administrative tasks.
* A genuine interest in home‐styling, furniture, or creating welcoming living spaces is a plus!
* Be keen as beans to live our values #WeAddValue, #WeAreDistinctive, #WeMakeItPersonal, #WeAreExperts, #WeKeepItReal.
* As we are a furniture store, the role involves regular manual handling of products including lifting, carrying and moving items of varying sizes. Applicants must be physically capable of safely performing these tasks as part of their daily duties.
* Applicants must be an AU citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in Australia and therefore hold a valid visa.
* Roster – Sunday‐Thursday, 38 hour week.
We understand a lot of time and effort goes into applying for roles and we genuinely thank all applicants in advance. Due to the volume of applications we receive, only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.
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