Role
Alpkit Store Manager

Location
Edinburgh

Hours
40 Hours per week

Ethos
Here at Alpkit we have a brilliant opportunity within our Retail Team. We are looking for someone to lead our fantastic team as Store Manager of our Edinburgh Store. Are you keen to get involved with Sonder and Retail? If you have a passion for the whole outdoors then come and help us put that passion into helping people Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.

About the Retail Team
Our heroes on the customer front line play a huge part within Alpkit, which is why this is an exciting opportunity for the individual who loves the outdoors, wants to grow a retail location and wants to work in a vibrant store, offering real service with personality. 

Think of one of our stores as a base camp, a really well-equipped gear store with the entire Alpkit product range inside. We've got a wetsuits to try on, bike packing luggage to fit for size and sleeping bags packed up to show their pack sizes. You can hire a bouldering mat, demo a bike, or book your tired and weary kit in for repair. Or, you can just come in and hang out when you're soggy and tired after a full day running, biking or hiking!

We are champions of being a sustainable brand and by choosing to do the right thing and aiming to do better continuously, we are world class at what we do; these guiding principles are embraced throughout our Retail Team.

Our AKtivism Values; We enjoy serving customers and enjoy closing a sale. We are helpful, cheery, engaging, and knowledgeable. We feel pride when we get a review, see customers with our products in use, and when we win awards.

About the Role
You'll work as part of a team of incredibly passionate, hardworking retail heroes. Your job is to share your knowledge and expertise to align job responsibilities, culture and product knowledge so the team deliver amazing service every day.

About you
We're looking for someone who: 

• Takes pride in offering great service and love being on shop floor
• Is motivated to get things done
• Is entrepreneurial & works with the team to build something a bit different & special (you've been to one of stores, so you know what we mean!)
• You're a people person; making people passionate about our gear and the outdoors describes you down to a T!
• You have proven experience of successfully managing and developing teams
• You have an awareness across a range of outdoor gear and activities.
• Your values align with Alpkit

Perks of the Job
Option to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, green travel commuting subsidy, 5 paid volunteer days.

Sustainability is written deeply in our DNA and we promote a learning culture. We are passionate about encouraging personal career development through weekly training, Adventure Training and paid study support for professional qualifications.

We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, Alpkit is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team, so be yourself, join our community and help us "go nice places and do good things.".

If you think you can wear the Alpkit red t-shirt and want the opportunity to really help build & influence a store, then email your CV and covering letter to jobs@alpkit.com telling us why you think you'd fit in well at our Alpkit Edinburgh Store along with your CV.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).