Job Description

Description :

***Note: This role is based in Montreal and is responsible for supporting the retail stores in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario (7 stores in total).

Leadership: Ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve results. Strong leadership skills with a focus on coaching, mentoring, and developing store managers and Staffers

Strategic Planning: Proven ability to develop and implement strategic plans to achieve sales targets and drive business growth. Experience analyzing market trends, identifying opportunities, and developing strategies to capitalize on them.

Sales Management: Demonstrated track record of driving sales performance and exceeding targets. Ability to analyze sales data, identify trends, and implement initiatives to maximize sales and profitability.

Operational Excellence: Strong understanding of retail operations, including inventory management, merchandising, and store operations. Experience implementing processes and procedures to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Customer Focus: Commitment to delivering exceptional customer service. Ability to anticipate customer needs, resolve issues promptly, and create a positive shopping experience for customers.

Financial Acumen: Solid understanding of financial metrics and KPIs. Ability to analyze financial reports, manage budgets, and make data-driven decisions to achieve business objectives.

Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels, including senior management, store teams, and external partners.

Key Competencies:

Leads, Develops and Inspires People: Demonstrates the ability to develop and implement plans to maximize staffer performance, while balancing empathy. Fosters high ethical standards in meeting MEC\xe2\x80\x99s vision, mission, purpose, and goals.

Takes an Operational Approach: Looks, plans, and moves into the future with clear intentions and purposeful actions, and makes decision that will lead your store toward its future objectives. Demonstrates the ability to develop and implement vision for their own respective store/department and incorporates that vision into MEC\xe2\x80\x99s core values.

Communicates and Builds Partnerships: Demonstrates the ability to explain and advocates facts and ideas in a convincing manner while communicating and negotiating with individuals and groups both internally and externally. Leverages internal and external networks to help solve issues and identifies the internal and external forces that impact MEC.

Drives Results: Demonstrates the ability to make timely and effective decisions and produces results through planning and the implementation and evaluation of operation, people and culture programs and plans.

Champions Change and Innovation: Fosters a work environment that encourages creative thinking and the ability to maintain focus, intensity, and persistence, even under adversity.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree in related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 7-10 years management experience in a retail fashion, soft goods or hard goods, or service chain environment.
• Track record of driving sales and profitability in multi-store environment
• Bilingual (English and French).
• Solid understanding of retail operations, inventory management, and financial metrics
• Results-oriented and customer-focused.
• Demonstrated skills in employee relations, planning, project management, budgeting, negotiating and process improvement in a retail setting.
• Exceptional leadership and employee motivation abilities.
• Dynamic and collaborative with the ability to engage and influence at different levels within the organization.
• Solid relationship-building skills to establish internal and external networks.
• Ability to travel up to 80% of the time.
• Savviness with Windows, Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Proven ability to interact, communicate effectively and collaborate with Executive leadership and all levels of staff
• Must be able to address multiple issues in a high paced and rapidly changing environment. Time management skills are critical.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

The Compensation & Perks

• Generous vacation allocation and Paid Care time (Wellness/sick)
• Work-life flexibility
• Hybrid work environment
• Maternity and Parental leave top-up
• Staff Discount and amazing deals straight from vendors
• Top-notch benefit plan
• Retirement Plan, matched contributions up to 6%
• Paid days to pursue outdoor activities and/or volunteer in your community.
• Free staff gear rental program
• Access to a learning platform and educational assistance support
• Career development opportunities
• Field experience days, team away days and much, much more

Note: Availability of the benefits and perks may be subject to your location & employment type and may have certain eligibility requirements. MEC reserves the right to alter these benefits and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

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