Part-time Sales Associate

**Summary Description**:
At Lacoste, we think **Life is a Beautiful Sport **and hope you do too. If you want to be a part of a culture that values **performance**, **innovation** and **joie de vivre **then keep reading. Are you naturally competitive? Do others look to you for **inspiration**? Are you happy and upbeat? Do you want to play on the best team? If you answered yes, we want to talk with you Lacoste strives to hire only the very best players who are at the top of their game. We scout out the top talent in the retail industry for all levels within our store team.

Essential Job Responsibilities:
**SELLING**:

- Lead by example to assist in achieving Lacoste’s sales plans and profitability goals.
- Assist management team in utilizing reports and gathering data to identify sales by units, gender, product placement, visual presentation, stock levels, and window presentations.
- Proactively make suggestions based on analysis that will positively impact the business.
- Set measurable **performance** standards and goals based on Company’s expectations and metrics.

**CUSTOMER SERVICE**:

- Assist in creating an **environment **focused on the **customer experience**.
- Ensure that each team member is knowledgeable about the Lacoste **lifestyle.**:

- Be **inventive** and create additional business opportunities by ensuring that team members focus on building their clientele.
- Embrace local community groups and mall management to generate PR opportunities that showcase our **Brand Vision** and **sporting spirit**. This may include hosting special events, sponsorships, participating in fashion shows and editorial placements as directed and with the express approval of corporate management.

**OPERATIONS**:

- Assist with opening and closing of store to ensure the store is ready for business
- Ensure that Company standards are upheld in merchandising, visual presentations, housekeeping and loss prevention.
- Protect store assets and inventory.
- Manage new receipts, transfers, markdowns, back stock and fill-ins.

Requirements/Qualifications:

- Prior experience in retail sales with a proven track record of customer excellence.
- **Tenacious** desire to inspire others and lead a culture of customer service champions.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to react to business trends and identify areas of opportunity.
- Technically savvy
- **Audacious** attitude
- **Sporting Spirit** - must possess a competitive edge and drive to meet goals
- **Innovative** thinker that will drive our brand forward.

**Core Values and Traits**:

- Accountable_:

- Providing answers to questions
- Propose solutions
- Integrating our role as a global economic player
- Collaborative: _
- Succeeding together
- Working together
- Sharing information
- Trusting each other
- Caring: _
- Respecting our people
- Caring for customers
- Different points of view
- Diversity
- Concerned by others
- Audacious: _
- Taking risks
- Being creative & innovative
- Following the less taken path
- Creating value
- Be LACOSTE_
- Understanding the brand
- Being enthusiastic, passionate & optimistic
- Being sincere, yourself & honest in relationships
- Gentleness, harmony

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 15-20 per week

Day range:

- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Shift:

- Day shift
- Evening shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Montréal, QC H3B 2V5: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- sales: 1 year (preferred)
- Customer service: 1 year (preferred)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (preferred)
- Night Shift (preferred)

Work Location: In person