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Retail Assistant Manager

The Spice and Tea Exchange

Orlando, FL

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Orlando, FL
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Job Title: Assistant Retail Manager

Department: SAVI

Position Reports to: General Manager

Employment: W2, Full-Time, Salary, Exempt

Location: Lake Buena Vista, FL, Disney Springs
PI Assessment Required to be Completed when Applying:

You're here! This can only mean one thing; you want to add a bit of SPICE to your life! Have no fear, here at The Spice & TeaExchange we are oozing withlife and with spice! Nudge, nudge...

Are you the best at what you do and want to love where you work? Are you a true flavor enthusiast with a zest for adventure? Want to work with a TEA-m full of sugary sweet, never salty (unless we sell it) band of characters who take their work seriously but never themselves? If this sounds like you and you too love corny puns, you may be the key ingredient we're missing. See what I did there? Apply now, and let your culinary imagination run wild with us!

Position Purpose:

At The Spice & Tea Exchange®, it is our mission to create and share the experience of a more flavorful life. The Retail Assistant Manager will assist the General Retail Manager with overall store business objectives, including the achievement of sales, profitability goals, staffing, compliance, and daily operations. This individual will demonstrate excellent relationship building skills, with both internal and external partners clients, to establish an exceptional service culture. The Retail Assistant Manager will improve store operations and profitability while promoting consistency within and acting as a brand ambassador of The Spice & Tea Exchange® brand.

Essential job functions include but are not limited to:
  • Drive a positive, customer-focused store culture.
  • Ensure each guest receives stellar customer service and is welcomed into the store and greeted.
  • Greet incoming customers, answer phone calls, and address customer complaints. Operate register to complete sales and collect payment.
  • Maintain solid, accurate and current product knowledge to adequately promote products by reading applicable publications and attending required training activities.
  • Field customer questions concerning product information, price and uses for products. Establish rapport with customers to ensure their return and/or word of mouth advertising.
  • Hire and train as needed to ensure adequate personnel is on hand to provide outstanding customer service.
  • Supervise, train and assist Retail Sales Associates in customer service, store maintenance and product promotions.
  • Develop and maintain a schedule for employees and promotions centered on holiday sales and other cycles.
  • Maintain proper inventory levels, ensure stocking, implement purchasing plans and maintain contact with Distribution Center to ensure maximum efficiency in meeting sales goals.
  • Implement cross-training of employees to always maintain productivity.
  • Manage all controllable costs with a view to maintaining profitability.
  • Ensure the store always remains clean and presentable.
  • Assist General Retail Manager with operational processes and maintaining the store in conditions of excellence to attract and retain guests, create a positive environment for staff, and enable efficient operations and high productivity.
  • Drive yourself and the team to meet and exceed sales goals and standards of performance; hold staff accountable for meeting goals, and provide a fun, full-service shopping experience.
  • Maintain merchandise and product inventory levels throughout the store, e.g., on shelves, counters and tables, and containers.
  • Contribute to team effort, comply with operating standards and procedures pertaining to the daily operation of the store.
  • Help maintain store appearance by contributing toward daily routines.
Knowledge and Job Requirements:
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Proven customer focus with stellar customer service.
  • 3-5 years of high-volume retail management and leadership experience.
  • Adept in technology and retail supporting processes; skills including but not limited to: POS, Office Suite, Email and Web Access
  • Experience in inventory management, cycle counts, stock replenishment, shrink reduction, and pricing.
  • Drive sales performance and support achievement of store KPIs
  • Ability to utilize simple math skills to measure ingredients, read a scale and follow recipes.
  • Willingness to work nights, weekends, and Holidays
  • Ability to resolve operational issues quickly to minimize disruption.
  • Frequently communicates business practices, verbally and in writing, with ability to exchange accurate, concise, and consistent information, in English.
  • Support General Retail Manager with communication with Disney support team and TSTE® operations team.
Physical Requirements to perform the essential functions of this job:
  • Consistent ability to utilize hands and fingers to perform tasks as necessary for job duties (8+ hours per day).
  • Consistent capacity for visual acuity to monitor processes, examine materials and labels, and ensure quality and safety standards are met (8+ hours per day).
  • Consistently communicate in English utilizing both written and oral methods including the use of speech and hearing to communicate effectively with team members, customers, and the ability to engage in verbal discussions and listen attentively (8+ hours per day).
  • Consistent ability to perform various physical tasks that require continuous standing (8+ hours per day), sitting (4+ hours per day), walking (8+ hours per day), bending (8+ hours per day), reaching (8+ hours per day), squatting, (3-5 hours per day), lifting; up to 50 lbs. (8+ hours per day), carrying (8+ hours per day), pushing/pulling (3-5 hours per day), and maneuvering within a retail store and warehouse workspace (8+ hours per day).
  • Ability to perform repetitive tasks (8+ hours per day).
  • Operation of, but not limited to, merchandising, stocking, picking, inventory, packaging, kitchen, and computer tools and equipment, retail store equipment and tools, printers and equipment (8+ hours per day).
  • Consistently work around spices; must not be sensitive or allergic to various scents, spices, fruits, extracts, aromas, or personal protective equipment (8+ hours per day).
TSTE is unable to accommodate sensitivity or allergy to various spices, ingredients, scents and aromas contained in our products. This is core to our business and cannot be avoided.

While we will make every attempt to provide reasonable accommodation, such accommodation may not alter the fundamental requirements of the job, cause undue hardship, safety risk, or interfere with the ability to perform essential functions. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to supporting your needs within the scope of our commitment to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws.

Core Values:
  • Customer Centric; approachable, builds meaningful relationships, loves to help others.
  • Intelligent; loves to learn and teach new things and share product knowledge with customers and staff.
  • Energetic; engaged, proactive, coachable, focused, positive demeaner.
  • Adaptability; open-minded, strategic thinker, team player, lead by example.
  • Foodie; passionate for flavorful foods, spices, and blends.
  • Wants to grow within a team; The Spice & Tea Exchange® promotes within.
Spicy Perks:
  • Employee product discounts.
  • Daily Tea Bar tea.
  • Monthly product gifts to support product knowledge.
  • Disney Springs stores discount.
  • Self-admission pass to all Walt Disney World parks.
  • 4 paid holidays.
  • Paid weekly.


Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Spice & Tea Exchange® provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

The Company prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Drug Free Workplace

The Spice & Tea Exchange® is committed to maintaining a safe and productive work environment. The company policy states, all applicants must complete a drug screening test if accepting an offer of employment. Employment offers are contingent upon a negative drug screening test result.

We create and share the experience every day! Life is better lived with a little spice

The Spice & Tea Exchange ® was founded in 2008, by a group of talented individuals with a passion for life and food. What started as a small shop in St. Augustine, Florida, has quickly grown into a nation-wide franchise powered by flavor, passionate franchise owners, and a desire to bring flavorful ingredients to your kitchen. Our franchise owners are the #1 REASON for what we do, and our team is a close-knit family you'd enjoy sitting with around the dinner table.

"Creating & sharing the experience of a more flavorful life," is the mission and cornerstone of our business, in which we strive to provide guests with quality products and flavorful memories. We offer a high-quality, diverse assortment of products in a sensory shopping experience. One step into our shops will kick your senses into high-gear as you open the jars and smell, explore recipes, and speak with our knowledgeable staff about your culinary interests.

At The Spice & Tea Exchange® we are committed to our mission. If you have a desire to inspire coworkers and customers, we may have a place for you at the table! Our employees define experience as all the events of our lives that shape who we are, taking you out of the everyday task list and putting you into a place that takes you to a different state of mind, making memories that are not forgotten, and trying things for the first time! The employee experience is something we do not take with a grain of salt.

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