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Retail store supervisor

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 30 hours per week
  • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year

Work setting

  • Retail business

Tasks

  • Assign sales workers to duties
  • Hire and train or arrange for training of staff
  • Authorize payments by cheque
  • Order merchandise
  • Authorize return of merchandise
  • Establish work schedules
  • Prepare reports on sales volumes, merchandising and personnel matters
  • Resolve issues that may arise, including customer requests, complaints and supply shortages
  • Organize and maintain inventory
  • Supervise and co-ordinate activities of workers
  • Manage cash

Security and safety

  • Basic security clearance
  • Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Personal suitability

  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Dependability
  • Initiative
  • Judgement
  • Ability to multitask

Employment terms options

  • Evening
  • Flexible hours
  • Morning
  • Day
  • Weekend

Support for persons with disabilities

  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees

Support for youths

  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth

Support for Veterans

  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans

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

Supports for visible minorities

  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities