Alpkit Assistant Store Manager

Alpkit Assistant Store Manager – Keswick

We are looking for someone to join our Keswick Store as Assistant Store Manager to provide exceptional customer service to help our customers Go Nice Places, Do Good Things.

You will want to get involved with both Sonder and Retail and have a passion for the whole outdoors. This role will involve you being a duty manager in the absence of the Store Manager, so this is a great opportunity to develop your retail leadership skills and experience through taking on additional responsibilities and greater involvement in commercial decision making. 

About the Team

Our customer facing staff play a huge part within Alpkit, which is why this is an exciting opportunity for the individual who loves the outdoors and wants to be part of a growing retailer, offering real service with personality. 

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.

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, win awards.

About you

Take pride in offering great service and love being on shop floor

Motivated to get things done, keen to be outdoorsy & entrepreneurial & work with the team to build something a bit different & special

Have an awareness across a range of outdoor gear and activities

Perks of the job

We truly believe that our success depends on the people that work here and the culture we create and are passionate about providing a place people want to work. We offer a range of benefits to enhance your career and wellbeing; ability to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, paid volunteer days and we are environmentally and sustainability conscious and we promote a learning culture.

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 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).

We’re a bunch of do-ers that make things happen. We enjoy the industry and energy of work and find reward in what we achieve so if you feel this role is a good fit, we’d love to hear from you jobs@alpkit.com