At Happy Socks we have made it our mission to spread happiness everywhere, and you only have to spend a few minutes with us to realize how seriously we take it!

We are now looking for a new Assistant Store Manager for our Happy Socks store located at Barkarby, Stockholm! In this role, your focus will be operating the store as a profit bearing unit, maintaining a credible brand and communicating our brand story to our end consumers and local corporate businesses.

In addition, you will of course make sure campaigns, guidelines, events, stock levels, and store operations are executed according to plan. We have set strategies and frameworks for all Happy Socks stores globally, which also applies for our stores in Sweden. You’ll report to our Retail Area Manager, based in Stockholm.

Main responsibilities

• Responsible for execution of the store P&L, and for driving business to reach revenue and profitability targets for the store
• Responsible for operating the store budget and all costs related to the store, including events and additional store supplies
• Assist the Retail Area Manager with recruiting, hiring, training, and evaluating employees
• Analyze store operations and voice input to the Retail Area Manager; identify problems and craft solutions
• Coach, motivate, and inspire store staff to meet individual sales goals and help the Retail Area Manager to create and manage staff work schedules
• Providing a safe and clean store environment for customers and staff
• Determining additional needs for sales promotion; studying trend
• Follow up, analyze and report on campaigns in terms of sales numbers, targets and improvements
• Responsible for storage and product flow (and store inventory twice a year)

Requirements & Skills

• 3+ years experience from working in retail
• Fluency in Swedish and English, both written and spoken

You have a strong sense of responsibility and ownership, with a “can-do attitude” mentality and a solid understanding of how a top-notch retail operation runs. You are a selling superstar with a passion for delivering a best-in-class customer experience! You have a proactive approach, and are always ready to lead by example.

Most importantly, you have the personality to fit a somewhat crazy, fun work environment where we believe in color and playfulness, a place where you can expect the unexpected and you are a source of creative weirdness.

The employment is full time and includes work on some holidays, evenings, and weekends.

We care a lot about Diversity at Happy Socks and would love to see a range of genders, ages and various backgrounds apply.

Get in touch soon as we are going through applications continuously and would like you to join this role as soon as possible!