Boutique Store Manager/Assistant Store Manager
Are you an experienced and dynamic Store Manager with experience in a luxury boutique environment? Do you have a flair for fashion and a passion for shoes? If so we'd love to hear from you!
We're looking for a dynamic and engaging Store Manager or experienced Assistant Store Manager primarily to support the management of our King's Road store, although there will be a requirement to provide cover across any of our London store locations as required over our peak season.
Penelope Chilvers is a luxury footwear brand. We design shoes and boots to fall in love with and stay in love with. Our mantra is to 'go anywhere, do anything' and our designs are timeless and made to last. Our boutique stores are located in Mayfair, Notting Hill, Chelsea and Belgravia.
This may be a full or part time (minimum 4 days per week) contract for an initial 4 month period to be reviewed in February 2026.
To be considered for interview you must have management or supervisory experience within a luxury retail fashion environment, ideally within a high end footwear brand. You must be able to lead by example in taking all relevant opportunities to upsell and cross sell to meet the customer’s current and future needs and you must be a positive role model and Penelope Chilvers brand ambassador.
To be successful in this role you must also be able to demonstrate particular strengths in:
- Leadership - ability to motivate a team to achieve sales through delivering exceptional customer service
- Communication - effective at building relationships with colleagues and customers
- Systems confidence - adept at learning new till systems, producing required reports and using systems to check stock
In return we offer a generous benefits package including 33 days' holiday (including bank holidays), a fantastic product allowance as well as a generous staff discount and some key wellbeing benefits such as life assurance, a company funded healthcare plan, company sick pay and enhanced pension. Salary will depend on experience.
Please note we are not able to accept applications from candidates requiring a visa either now or in the future.
Strictly no agencies thank you.
- Department
- Retail
- Role
- Store Manager
- Locations
- King's Road
Colleagues
King's Road
Our Benefits
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🏄🏻♀️ 33 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore we offer everybody 33 days paid holiday (including Bank Holidays).
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👢 Generous product allowance
We want our team to walk in PC and be advocates of the brand so each team member gets between 2-4 pairs of PC boots and/or shoes per year!
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💓 Life assurance
Offering our employees peace of mind that their named beneficiary will receive 4x the employee’s annual salary should the unthinkable happen.
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👩🏻⚕️ Healthcare cash plan
Helping our employees to cover various healthcare costs such as routine dental and optical care, prescriptions, complementary and alternative therapies; as well as help with getting specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, counseling and health screening etc.
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💰 Pension
Helping our employees plan for the future, we offer a 5% employer contribution as part of our auto enrol pension scheme.
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🛍️ Salary Extras
Providing our team with a little extra help to make their salaries go further - Salary Xtras is a web portal offering discounted shopping, holidays, cinema & gym membership etc; cycle2work scheme; travel loans to spread the cost of commuting and an employee assistance service for unlimited access to specialist support e.g. legal and financial advice.
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🕺 Regular social & team events
We try to get together regularly to celebrate our successes as a team.
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🕐 Flexible working hours
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we try to be flexible with working hours where possible and many roles operate on a remote or hybrid basis - whatever works best for the individual, team and the company.
Workplace Culture
We encourage every employee to understand the importance of their contribution to the overall success of the business. Everyone has a role to play and we encourage regular performance reviews to help people to reach their full potential.
We all take responsibility for meeting the requirements of our individual and team roles and we don’t shy away from going above and beyond the call of duty when a situation warrants it, or when our colleagues need our help.
We acknowledge and respect that we are all different. We aim to build strong personal relationships and we value the different skills and attributes that make up a diverse and effective team.
We are all passionate about the areas in which we work and strive to be the best we can be in our individual fields. But that doesn’t come at the cost of stepping on each other to get there.
We care about the company and we care about each other and we believe in maintaining a creative, informal, friendly and engaging working environment.
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