Retail store supervisor

Work setting

• Retail business

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Assign sales workers to duties
• Hire and train or arrange for training of staff
• Authorize payments by cheque
• Order merchandise
• Authorize the return of merchandise
• Establish work schedules
• Sell merchandise
• Prepare reports on sales volumes, merchandising, and personnel matters
• Organize and maintain inventory
• Resolve problems that arise, such as customer complaints and supply shortages
• Supervise and coordinate activities of workers
• Supervise staff (apprentices, stages hands, design team, etc.)
• Teach interest or professional development courses
• Theatre designers design and create settings, scenic environments, properties, costumes, and lighting for theatre, film, and video productions, operas, and ballets
• Fashion designers design and create clothing and accessories for men, women, and children
• Exhibit designers plan and develop permanent and temporary or moveable exhibits and displays for museum exhibitions, trade shows, conventions, retail spaces, and other exhibitions

Supervision

• 5-10 people

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Handling heavy loads
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Walking
• Attention to detail
• Standing for extended periods
• Ability to distinguish between colors
• Sitting
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

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