Company DescriptionJoin our team to achieve your full career potential! We are proactive, outside the box thinkers and doers who stop at nothing to make the iconic Laura and Melanie Lyne brands shine! Privately owned and based in Laval, Quebec, with a strong vision for innovation and optimizing the employee and client experiences, we continue to help generations of Canadian women to look and feel their best.Job DescriptionAs a role model, the Laura Canada Customer Experience Lead possesses a contagious passion for fashion and customer service. Motivates, coaches and develops a winning team of Sales Associates that provides a unique and memorable shopping experience to every customer.How will you support the team? Customer Service Observes and coaches team members’ behaviors to maintain high standards of customer service and product knowledge.Acts as a role model by providing exemplary customer service using Laura Canada’s customer service standards.Effectively builds and maintains a personal clientele by using Laura Canada’s tools and ensures all Sales Associates do the same.Demonstrates strong wardrobing skills by coaching and sharing knowledge on current fashion trends, product, and the customers’ unique needs as well as ensuring team members are always up to date on new arrivals, product knowledge, and current fashion trends.Conducts SPA weekly.Acts as a role model by promoting the website, store CRM, any loyalty program, marketing initiatives in place and direct ship.Fosters a vibrant, fun, energetic and enjoyable store environment.2. Floor LeadershipDemonstrates excellent floor leadership and has exceptional control of the sales floor (customer service standards, fitting rooms, zone coverage, cash desk area) and monitors segment accountability results.Continually monitors traffic trends and reacts in a timely manner.Identifies team members’ issues and communicates them to the Store Manager.3. Business ManagementAssists Store Manager in providing a store environment which consistently maintains Laura Canada’s visual presentation, merchandising and housekeeping standards.Assists Store Manager in dressing window mannequins to showcase the store’s inventory and adheres to visual standards, including any mandatory directives that may be issued. Assists Store Manager in ensuring proper execution of all Marketing directives with a high sense of urgency.Assists Store Manager in executing directives (e.g. receiving goods, implementing markdowns, processing transfers, direct ship and special order requests) accurately and in a timely manner.Acts as a back-up to the Store Manager.Provides feedback to the Store Manager on quality issues, missed opportunities and inventory mix.4. Store PerformanceContributes to achieve all key financial objectives established by Laura CanadaSalesClosing ratioHoursShrinkDollars per transactionUnits per transactionQualificationsContagious passion for fashion and customer serviceA minimum of 1 year experience as Sales Associate preferredProven leadership and passion for coaching and developing othersAbility to create a positive work environment where team members are motivated to learn and growExcellent communication and interpersonal skillsDemonstrates initiative on an on-going basis.Embraces Company initiatives and acts as a change agent to ensure directives are met.Open to feedback and implements change in a timely manner.English and/or French as required.Additional InformationLaura Canada is a family-owned retailer housing two iconic women’s fashion apparel brands, Laura and Melanie Lyne. Based in Laval, Quebec, we design, produce, market and sell our fashion collections across Canada. We proudly employ over 2,000 dedicated team members and operate more than 140 retail store locations as well as operating laura.ca and melanielyne.com. We attribute our success to the unwavering commitment of our teams to delivering outstanding customer experiences while embodying our shared values of integrity, respect, teamwork, performance, and passion. We believe that delivering an outstanding customer experience is driven by our commitment to an outstanding employee experience.
