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Experience Wellington / Management & Admin
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Experience Wellington / Management & Admin
Retail Development Lead
Job details
Organisation
Experience WellingtonCloses
14 Dec 2022Posted on
29 Nov 2022Region
WellingtonWork type
Full time employmentWork classification
Management & Admin, OtherKo wai mātou | Who are we
As a small organisation we punch above our weight, working together with and for Wellington to create remarkable experiences that generate vitality, strengthening the city we love. We offer incredible audience experiences across our six sites; City Gallery Wellington, Capital E, Wellington Museum, Space Place, Cable Car Museum and Nairn Street Cottage.
Te tūranga | The role
The Retail Delivery Lead is based in store, working closely with our team to develop, design and deliver our retail offerings across our sites. With a background in retail, you will be responsible for the daily support within our retail spaces. Responsible for the aesthetics and layout of our physical shops, you lead by example and are a safe set of hands, managing procurement and curation of stock for our retail and online shops stock, sales, operational performance and strategy for the year.
You design and deliver processes to improve and maintain the operations and you thrive in operational delivery. You love to be on the shop floor, and you may support retail at events and special launches outside of our core business hours and work alongside our visitor services team as a Cruise ship comes to town.
You’ll be as comfortable in front of the counter as you are behind and maintain accurate records of stock purchases and sales partnering with the visitor services team members to receive, account and restock shelves in our shops coordinating with Site Supervisors to conduct rolling stock takes. You will have a love of local brands support ethical production and responsible environmental management. Your role modelling also includes ensuring there is a Māori dimension at the heart of the retail experiences we offer.
Ngā tino pūkenga me ngā wheako |The essential skills and experience for the role
- Is inspired to push constantly for positive revenue driven change
- Works with vision behind the scenes and with passion on the shop floor
- Has a love of retail and retail experiences and loved to push well calculated boundaries to the unexpected.
- Tech savvy with the ability to use multiple platforms to deliver a diverse portfolio of retail experiences
- Committed to te ao Maori and use of te reo
- Expert administrator and proficient Office 365 users
- The very best team players with strong communication skills
- Confident delivering training and imparting passion
- Able to engage with a range of audiences including; tamariki, those with access and inclusion support needs and visitors from a range of backgrounds
- People with a can-do attitude and change savvy
- Rock solid reliable with sound time management skills
- Passionate about art, science, history, museums, or community building – sometimes all of these and more
- Flexible people committed to ensuring we can deliver all our services and programmes to the people of Wellington and beyond, able to work late nights, weekends and public holidays as rostered.
Experience Wellington embraces flexible working and offers generous leave provisions including wellbeing and bereavement leave. Other benefits include free te reo Māori lessons and access to EAP services.
If you want to work with like-minded community builders, passionate about art and culture we would love to hear from you. To join our team, please submit your CV, a cover letter and complete our online application form for our consideration. For further information on the role please contact hr@experiencewellington.org.nz.
Applications close 11:59pm Wednesday 14 December 2022
Applicants for these positions require the eligibility to work in New Zealand, have current NZ citizenship, residency or a valid work visa. For advice on obtaining a New Zealand work or residence visa visit www.immigration.govt.nz
How to apply
If you want to work with like-minded community builders, passionate about art and culture we would love to hear from you. To join our team, please submit your CV, a cover letter and complete our online application form for our consideration. For further information on the role please contact hr@experiencewellington.org.nz.
Online application form - https://recruit.chillifactor.co.nz/jobs/view?id=11837
