Head Coach (Store Manager) - Christchurch

We're here to inspire the community to be 1% better everyday 
LSKD is an Australian-owned and operated brand founded in Logan, Brisbane that prides itself in producing high-quality functional sportswear with a street aesthetic. We want to bring our mission and values to life in everything that we do - and want our team to be inspired by this mission too.

The Role

We're coming to you New Zealand! We are looking for a Head Coach (Retail Store Manager) who is ready to lead a passionate team in our new Christchurch store opening soon. Our Head Coaches are accountable for every aspect of the retail store operation.  Working closely alongside our Retail Leadership team, this role is responsible for growing local community connections, coaching and developing their team and driving brand growth.   

Opening a new store is a huge opportunity to build your store and team from the ground up. We onboard our Head and Deputy Coach Team three months out from opening to give you a full brand immersion and induction.

So, what's involved in the lead up to opening a new store?

Heating up the Community - Localise and create your ultimate opening day activations/giveaways by connecting with brand partners. Getting out and sweating with our local fitness partners and community. Building awareness about the store opening and connecting with our LSKD community

Hiring and Inducting your store team - Working with People and Culture to facilitate Group interviews, select your team of Educators and induct them into Team LSKD

Community Marketing - Build community connections through a localised pre opening event tour as well as popping in to connect with our brand partners.
You will take this opportunity to build relationships with local athletes and mavens who align with our mission and values

Coaching & Leadership: 

• Coach and build a world class team that embraces and shares our values and can educate our community on our world class product
• Foster a culture that is all about being 1% Better, on the floor mentoring and coaching is part of the everyday
• Manage and lead a diverse team, facilitate training sessions and team meetings
• Coach and inspire your team on setting fitness, career and personal goals

Community:

• Create a local community for your store, build out a plan to engage and drive the LSKD community into your space
• Flex your creative skills to design and facilitate in store events to provide our community an opportunity to connect with us and add value to their brand experience
• This isn't your usual Store Manager role, we love to see our Head Coaches get outside of the store and build relationships with local values aligned partners.
• Galvanise your team to get involved in joining sweat sessions and joining classes yourself to make effortless connections in the community, we love our team to authentically be in a movement/lifestyle

Store Operations:

• Own your business through managing and measuring store success based on key KPI’s
• Deliver weekly and monthly reflections on business performance, strengths and opportunities
• Plan floor coverage and make decisions to maintain efficiency and effectiveness of floor operations
• Plan your month to month business strategy and set goals
• Execute daily and weekly stock level maintenance and optimise VM
• Understand and adhere to people safety policies and procedures to maintain a safe work environment

What We Look For

• The Ideal Team Player: You are Hungry, Humble and Smart
• A Leader: Loves to lead, influence and inspire others
• Adaptable: takes every opportunity to find a way to do things better and can change priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strategic Thinking: Sets strategies that are aligned to the mission and values of LSKD
• Resilience: Remains persistent, positive and recovers quickly from setbacks
• Core Business knowledge: Is able to quickly understand and address business information (e.g budgets and sales forecasts, retail strategy and approaches)
• An everyday athlete - you're as passionate about fitness as we are, in whatever way you love to sweat!

Find out more about our values 

Ready to enjoy the journey?