Job Details
Description
Do you love sports, fitness, fashion or the outdoors? SCHEELS can turn your passion into a rewarding career through our extensive business and product training.
SCHEELS is a leader in the sporting goods industry - driven to create the best experience in the USA for our customers. SCHEELS boasts the largest selection of sports brands in America—offering world-class brands, special attractions, and unmatched customer service.
SCHEELS empowers our associates to become experts in exceeding the needs and expectations of our customers. SCHEELS associates talk-the-talk, and walk-the-walk, with the best product and expert training in the sporting goods industry. Mentorship and professional development training are a focus throughout your entire career.
Responsibilities
- Create an annual strategy of events that promote and align with the store’s goals and creates customer and store interaction
- Execute first class events to drive sales, traffic, and community good-will
- Coordinates schedules, organize materials, review transportation itineraries and book venues and services
- Determine and direct events, including:
- Budget
- Advertising
- Staff needs
- Coordinates registration and payment procedures, promotional advertising and mailings and corporate sponsorship activities
- Serving the community through fundraisers and leading the donation process
- Provide project status updates to store leader and leadership team
- Manage public relations between Scheels and our customers, sponsors and within our community
- Understand the SCHEELS brand and event marketing strategies
- Welcome, greet and address customers in friendly and courteous manner while providing prompt and outstanding services
- Exercise judgment and tact and be able to effectively work with all levels within the organization while working on projects
- Demonstrate strong oral/written communication skills, organization, attention to detail, problem solving and presentation skills, to communicate effectively
- Leadership and management experience along with a strong knowledge of Scheels’ polices and applicable laws
- Be professional in appearance and attitude, contribute to a positive team atmosphere and treat others with respect and consideration while following Scheels’ policies and procedures
- Ability to work assigned schedule which may include varied hours, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- Some travel, including overnight stays
- Must possess a valid driver’s license
Requirements
Customer Service
- Genuinely and consistently treat co-workers, customers and business partners like they are the most important person including eye contact, a smile and a genuine “Thank you”
Culture
- Approach daily tasks, projects and follow-up communication with energy and sense of urgency
- Cultivate a deep desire to become a knowledge expert in their role with the ability to apply their knowledge and experience with great impact
- Show respect and appreciation for others and Scheels
- Arrive to work and meetings 10 minutes early
Servant Leadership
- Genuine interest and action in helping others before yourself, regardless of recognition or reward
Teach-ability
- Consistent eagerness to listen, learn, apply knowledge and accept critical feedback
- Ability to adapt to a changing work environment
- Ability to apply concepts of basic math, grammar, punctuation and spelling
Dress Code
- Meets Scheels dress and grooming expectations in support of professional, clean and welcoming environment for customers, co-workers and business partners
Efficiency
- Demonstrate pride and ownership of their work while meeting expected deadlines
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or related field; two to five years of related experience: or equivalent combination of education and experience
Physical Requirements/Lifting Requirements
Must be able to sit, stand, bend at the waist, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, walk, push/pull, lift, talk, and hear with or without reasonable accommodation.
Medium work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10-25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for light work.
