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Lush Cosmetics

Direct-to-consumer handmade cosmetics retailer

Store Manager

Retail Store ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaCA$77.5kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Three to five years of management experience in a retail environment.
  • Strong human resources skills in hiring, scheduling, training, conflict resolution, and performance management.
  • Strong customer service, supervisory, and sales skills.
  • Knowledge of and interest in skin care, natural beauty, and ethical business.
  • Ability to work flexible hours, including holidays, evenings, and weekends.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the team on plans to exceed daily sales goals and ensure an inclusive customer experience that makes visitors feel welcome, meets their needs, and satisfies them.
  • Educate customers and staff about the brand's values and its positions on animal testing, fresh cosmetics, ethical purchasing, vegetarian products, handmade products, and naked packaging, including through community engagement and traffic-driving initiatives.
  • Build product knowledge through continuous learning and make informed product recommendations for customers' needs.
  • Develop and execute business plans aligned with the North American business strategy to improve key performance indicators and achieve short- and long-term sales goals.
  • Coach and develop team members' careers by creating development plans, encouraging learning through company tools, coaching as needed, and providing constructive feedback.
  • Promote a diverse team and inclusive environment by prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives and training and collaborating with the team on solutions that promote equity and belonging.
  • Use analysis, experience, and perspective to address performance concerns and create action plans to improve staff engagement, considering personal situations and challenges with empathy.
  • Form diverse teams and apply equal employment opportunity practices through transparent and equitable interview and promotion processes, supporting staff career development.
  • Prioritize shop compliance and ensure staff complete training and follow standards for attendance, breaks and meals, product integrity, respectful workplace conduct, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination, health and safety, and daily communication, within budget.
  • Train the team on product freshness and rotation standards and manage ordering to ensure the right products and quantities are available at the right time; use inventory reporting tools to manage orders, inventory, and waste within budget.
  • Create and execute merchandising plans to improve key performance indicators; train and manage the team to maintain a clean work environment and follow merchandising and design standards to provide a consistent customer experience and drive sales.
  • Schedule appropriate staffing and skill levels for peak periods and ensure breaks and meals are properly allocated and recorded to support staff wellbeing and payroll accuracy within the labor budget.
  • Manage shop budgets and sales performance while creating a strong customer and staff experience and maintaining operational excellence.
  • Assess personal performance and seek feedback, resources, and development opportunities to improve skills, knowledge, and abilities.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with consultation-based customer service models.
  • Ability to develop and train staff through positive coaching and feedback.
  • Strong track record of developing retail staff careers.
  • Proficiency in Excel and the Microsoft Office suite, and adaptability to other systems.
  • Experience with cross-cultural collaboration and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging or social justice training.

About the Company

Lush Cosmetics

Direct-to-consumer handmade cosmetics retailer

Lush Cosmetics makes handmade skincare, haircare, and bath products sold directly to consumers via lushusa.com and its stores. The products are handcrafted from natural ingredients, with many items designed to cleanse, moisturize, or refresh, and some lines feature naked packaging to reduce plastic waste. The company differentiates itself through strong ethics on sourcing, sustainability, cruelty-free practices, and a direct-to-consumer model complemented by community campaigns and in-store experiences. The goal is to provide high-quality personal care products while minimizing environmental impact and building a values-driven customer community.

Company size
1-10
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
1994

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