Location: Alpkit Truro
Position: Permanent, Full-time
Hours: 40hrs per week, starting late April/Early May

We're chuffed to announce that we're opening a brand-new store in Truro! We're building a whole new team in our most southerly location, and we're looking for an awesome Assistant Manager, who is keen to get stuck in and build on our fantastic brand reputation in a new location. If you have a passion for the outdoors, come and help us Go Nice Places, Do Good Things!

About the Retail Team

Our heroes on the customer front line play a huge part within Alpkit. This is an exciting opportunity for the person who loves the outdoors, wants to grow a retail location, and enjoys leading within a vibrant store, offering real service with personality.

Think of one of our stores as a base camp, a well-equipped gear store with the entire Alpkit product range inside. We've got a wetsuit 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. You could also just come in and hang out when you're soggy and tired after a full day running, biking, or hiking!

We are champions of sustainability and are world class at what we do. We're firm believers in doing more with less, in making that jacket last a bit longer, and in choosing to do the right thing. We're continuously aiming to do better, and these guiding principles are embraced throughout our Retail Team.

Our AKtivism Values

We love serving customers and enjoy closing a sale. We are helpful, cheery, engaging, and knowledgeable. We're proud of our reviews, and we're enthused when we see customers using our product. We've won awards for our branding, our product and for our customer support. We live to #goniceplacesdogoodthings.

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 the team, promote our culture, and share your product knowledge so the team deliver amazing sales and service every day. You'll report into the store manager and form a strong leadership team to guide the store in line with Alpkit culture.

About you

The right person for this role will:

• Take pride in offering great service and love being on the shop floor.
• Is motivated to get things done.
• You're a people person; making people passionate about our gear and the outdoors describes you down to a Tee!
• Ideally has previous retail experience, especially in a management capacity across a range of outdoor gear and activities.
• Passionate about sales & service
• 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 per annum/

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.

About Alpkit

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, Do Good Things."

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).

How to apply

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 Truro Store along with your CV.