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Sales supervisor

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: French
  • Hours: 35 hours per week
  • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
  • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work site environment

  • Non-smoking
  • Air conditioned
  • Furniture

Work setting

  • Retail business
  • On-site customer service
  • Sales
  • Furniture store

Tasks

  • Supervise staff (apprentices, stages hands, design team, etc.)
  • Assign sales workers to duties
  • Hire and train or arrange for training of staff
  • Sell merchandise
  • Prepare reports on sales volumes, merchandising and personnel matters
  • Resolve issues that may arise, including customer requests, complaints and supply shortages
  • Manage cash
  • Invoice clients
  • Greet customers
  • Identify customers' needs

Supervision

  • 1 to 2 people
  • Cashiers
  • Elemental sales occupations
  • Retail salespersons and sales clerks

Type of product

  • Furniture and house furnishings

Area of specialization

  • Retail store

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Work under pressure
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Walking
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Dependability
  • Excellent written communication
  • Initiative
  • Judgement
  • Ability to multitask
  • Leadership

Screening questions

  • Are you authorized to work in Canada?
  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you live near the job location?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting?

Employment terms options

  • Evening

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Weekend

Health benefits

  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan

Financial benefits

  • Commission
  • Life insurance

Long term benefits

  • Long-term care insurance

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Team building opportunities
  • Travel insurance
  • Wellness program

Support for persons with disabilities

  • Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example: ramps, elevators, etc.)

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees

Support for youths

  • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Indigenous people

  • Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
  • Provides workspace accommodations, such as age-appropriate ergonomic considerations, to meet the physical needs of mature workers (for example: adjustable desks and chairs, accessible parking, etc.)

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)