Job Posting - Customer Experience Specialist

Job Posting Date: April 2024

Hiring for: Customer Experience Specialist

Quick Description Of Role: You love people, you have a deep understanding of product knowledge (don't worry - we teach this!) and you (alongside the team that you will be leading), provide exceptional customer service for Green Kiss guests both in store and online.  

Pay: $22-$27 an hour, depending on relevant work experience.

 

Who We Are:

Established in 2011, The Green Kiss is a Canadian Healthy Beauty Company committed to inspiring people to care for themselves with the healthiest and most effective personal care products possible. Our mission is to lovingly empower people to take care of their skin, bodies, and families with products that are healthy for both themselves and the environment. For those new to healthy beauty, the principle goal is to reduce the toxic load that people are unintentionally applying to their bodies, and in turn, rinsing off into our ecosystems. The Green Kiss was built on creating goodness in the world and making a massive positive impact and change. Our love for humanity and the planet drives everything we do. We are based in Victoria BC with our brick-and-mortar store, in house online fulfillment, and office at Uptown Shopping Centre. We owe our longevity to our commitment to clean beauty, and to the incredible community that we have built here in Victoria, and across Canada.


Who You Are: 
You are a positive, authentic leader, communicator and educator, who is passionate about helping people live their best lives. And most of all - you are ready to commit and really “own” the customer service, and guest experiences of our fast growing, fast paced, small business. While a background in either skincare, wellness or makeup, is ideal, it is not essential as we can offer training! What is most important, is that you EXCEL in customer service - both in person, and via written communication. Making someone’s day, and improving the health of their skin and body truly LIGHTS you up. You are excited about customer service, sales, and product education. You are passionate about health and wellness, and you seek out any chance you can to get to know your community. You have a natural gift of bringing joy to people’s lives and caring for them.

You have an entrepreneurial spirit and excel at fostering strong relationships with others. You are looking to work in an environment that is filled with positivity, growth opportunities, and incentives where you are rewarded for your hard work and results! You are a go-getter. You like achieving things, crossing off “to-do” lists, and seriously going after sales targets! It excites you to work for a business where love is the driving force and fast business growth is the result. You're fulfilled being a part of a team in a growing small business environment where every action you take makes an impact.

You bring positive energy to those around you and are excited at the idea of playing a pivotal role in helping people look and feel their best. You have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a strong history of using both in your previous work. You have a keen sense of accountability and integrity. You have multi-tasking superpowers. You are results-oriented, and your follow-through is second to none. You're great at identifying opportunities for improvement. You connect with different cultures and generations easily and respectfully, and have 3 years+ experience in retail management, or elite customer service.

If you have some of these qualities and believe this is the position that will make you excited to come to work every day, then we want to hear from you!

Prior Work Experience That Suits This Role: Small business management (or past ownership, retail management, retail sales, communications specialists with work history in health clinics or small business, aestheticians or makeup artists with communications experience who are wanting a change in their careers, and a steady, consistant work schedule and salary. 

More About The Role:

The primary goal of this position, is to grow our business by serving our existing community, and to grow our reach by developing new and meaningful relationships. With this goal in mind, there are three. main objectives of our Sales & Guest Experience Manager:


1. Develop heart felt relationships with our community members by leading with education. Provide exceptional sales, communications and guest experience at The Green Kiss for our customers both in store, and online across Canada. Provide outstanding customer service experience to our customers through product knowledge, trend awareness, and exceptional customer care. Develop partnerships with community leaders, ambassadors, and health care practitioners. Support customer care issues, returns, and quality assurance. 


2. Lead our sales team members (educators), scheduling, training the team, creating GK cross-training documents, and creating a positive, uplifting, and fulfilling environment for all staff.


3. To manage and own all things front-of-house. To be the leader of all in-store merchandising, fixtures, and seasonal or promotional displays - to maintain the best possible shopping experience for our guests.

Our owner Megan is looking for a co-pilot for all things sales, communications, and guest experience related here at The Green Kiss. Is this person you? This role is a KEY pillar to our business. You will be working directly with our owner Megan, and our operations lead, Tiffany Dunning, to help drive the ship of our values based business forward! 

 

Day In The Life: 

  • Providing exceptional customer service for in store guests. 
  • Providing your deep understanding of product knowledge to help inform and educate our guests on the best options for their unique skin needs. 
  • Offering on the fly consultations in healthy skincare, makeup, haircare & body care. 
  • In between in store customer experience sessions, you are helping customers across Canada via email/phone consults who shop with us on our online store, pulling online orders, handling quality assurance issues, and working with our Ops Lead to maintain great systems for any issues that may arise. 
  • You are the glue between our team of educators, making sure that our customers are taken care between shift changes. 
  • You lead the education on our team, ensuring our team is up to date with the most current product knowledge 
  • You work with our team to ensure our shelves are stocked, the store is clean, and things are in order.
  • You create beautiful displays in store, or lead our team to do so, and ensure that the store is organized in the best possible way for our customers
  • You also work to develop relationships in our community, to help grow our practioner program and community impact work. 



What We Offer:

· Flexible start date

· Hourly pay of $22-$27 an hour depending on relevant work experience

· Free Parking

· Staff Gifting

· Ongoing training and career development

· Employee Discount 

· Uptown Staff Discount at participating stores

 

Schedule & Hours:

40 hour work week. Tuesday - Saturday. Must be able to work Saturdays with flexibility to work some Sundays as well.

Hours of operation daily 10 am - 6 pm, subject to change with the season.

 

Job Location:

The Green Kiss
#109 - 3531 Uptown Boulevard
Victoria BC
V8Z 0B9


How To Apply:

Send your resume and cover letter to Megan Johns at megan@thegreenkiss.com. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.


**Referrals are welcome and will be rewarded with a $100 GK gift card upon hire**

Don't see an opening that you're looking for? Send us a general application to hello@thegreenkiss.com. You might just be the candidate we didn't know we needed.