**Work for a global leader in travel retail**:
- **Full-time permanent position**:
- **Ongoing training and career progression opportunities**:
- **Staff discount across the Pacific network**:
- **Paid Parental Leave**
Are you looking for your next challenge in an exciting leadership role? Then look no further!!
We are looking for an individual with solid management experience gained in a fast-paced hospitality/retail environment to join as an **Assistant Store Manager** for our **News Travels **store at **Sunshine Coast** **Airport!**
**News Travels **store offers a wide range of curated news/magazines, books, gifts, and travel essentials, for our travellers before they jet off to their destination.
Your role as **Assistant Store Manager** is to provide friendly and efficient service to our customers by delivering a high-quality product and a memorable experience. Responsible for the management of the store and team in the absence of the Store Manager, this is a hands-on role that will require you to work alongside all team members to achieve high service outcomes and build a positive team environment. To operate at the optimum level, you will have at least 2 years of experience in leading a team in a retail environment is required.
**We are looking for a leader who will**:
- Demonstrate solid retail/ hospitality operational experience and people management skills
- Be a strong communicator and team motivator with professional presentation standards
- Team focused and results driven with an entrepreneurial business approach
- Provide effective training to staff in the areas of customer service, product knowledge, inventory control, and merchandising
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Strong computer literacy including MS Office suite
- Champion maturity, initiative, and a sense of urgency
As we operate in a dynamic airport location our stores operate 7 days a week to meet our customers' needs. With this in mind, you would be expected to be reasonably versatile with your availability to work outside of normal business hours if required.
**Who we are**:
**Lagardere AWPL** is the Pacific region's largest and most experienced Travel Retail operator. Located in Australia, New Zealand and Noumea we have 180 store locations and 40 unique concepts across four Business Lines: Travel Essentials, Specialty, Duty Free & Luxury and Food Service. Two is better than one, and together, the people of Lagardere AWPL work hard to deliver on our promises to our customers, our partners, our teams & ourselves. We are guided by our values of Excellence, Adventure & Respect, which help us make decisions, challenge ourselves and create magical moments for everyone, every day.