Careers at Beyond Retro
Do You Have a Passion for Vintage Clothing?
Do you have a passion for vintage clothes and a desire to gain work experience in a dynamic hands-on environment? Beyond Retro offers flexible work placements throughout the year tailored to your skills and interests in a number of our departments at the Cheshire Street store. Whether your goal is to pursue a career in fashion merchandising, design, retail management, press or styling, work experience at Beyond Retro can give you a unique insider eye to these fields from the perspective of London's largest vintage store!
Currently, we are looking for the following:
Full Time Supervisors
Beyond Retro is looking for full time supervisors / sales persons. Experience in a vintage environment is an asset but not a necessity as full training will be provided, however a keen interest in vintage clothing is a must.
Ideal candidate will be friendly, hard working, efficient and punctual and have an eye for detail and have had experience in supervising and motivating a sales team.
Ongoing training in the identification of 20th century period clothing will be provided, you will also be provided with continual trend updates from our Product Co-ordination department.
As a sales team supervisor you will be expected to:
- Have excellent customer service
- Develop a rapport with regular customers
- Provide personal shopping on request (ability to style with confidence all age groups)
- Dress customers for themed events
- Acquire an excellent knowledge of our product
- Cash up tills
- Open/Close the store
- Keep up to date with current high street and catwalk trends
- Motivate and inspire staff
- Must be able to work five days including some weekends
Please send your C.V. plus cover letter explaining why you would be suitable for the role to: careers@beyondretro.com
International Sales Representatives required for London based design archive.
The Beyond Retro Archive is a fashion design resource based in London. We sell vintage print swatches and garments to an international client base ranging from luxury and contemporary designers, high street brands, interior and product design. We house an expanding collection of over 6,000 swatches and garments and our researchers can view a collection of over 10,000 items weekly. The Archive has been well received at key trade shows such as Premier Vision in Paris and Indigo in New York. We work closely with leading trend forecasting companies such as WGSN.
We are expanding our team of international sales representatives. We require new members in various locations to develop our successful global presence as suppliers of vintage print inspiration.
The candidate will be abreast of current fashion trends, possess a passion for print and an understanding of how vintage design feeds a wide spectrum of creative development in today's industry.
The candidate will have their own active client base and Beyond Retro will provide information regarding existing clients in their location. We will provide packages of ready prepared fabric swatches and offer trend direction. .
Preferred locations are America (East and West Coast), Paris, Amsterdam, Korea, Japan and Australia.
Please e-mail careers@beyondretro.com with a covering letter and C.V.
*Applicants must state "BEYOND RETRO REP" and their location in the subject box or their mail may not be read.
Assistant Store Manager
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Store Manager to join our Soho Store. The ideal candidate will be friendly, hard working, efficient and punctual and have an eye for detail and have experience in supervising and motivating a sales team.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
Assisting the Store Manager in managing and controlling the overall operation of the store.
As part of a busy sales department you will be expected to:
Have excellent customer service.
Motivate the sales team to ensure maximum sales.
Ensure staff maintain a high level of customer service.
Inform/co-ordinate floor staff in daily/weekly duties.
Maintain a clean and organized shop.
Become competent at identifying and pricing vintage product.
Gain sound knowledge of all vintage clothing and continually update knowledge base.
Stay current with catwalk and high street trends, be aware of emerging customer trends.
The store environment is vibrant and uniquely reflective of the local social scene. We are seeking applications from people who would like to grow with the company, who have creative flair and excellent organizational skills.
If you have a minimum of 1 years experience in supervising and motivating a fashion management team, please send your CV plus cover letter highlighting your current salary package and telling us why you would love to work with at Beyond Retro. Send your application to: careers@beyondretro.com
