Store Manager

Step into a world of paint, colour, and innovation with PPG’s Australia and New Zealand Architectural business. As a global leader, we transform spaces across the region with trusted brands including Taubmans, White Knight and Johnstone’s in Australia and PPG Paints in New Zealand.

We don’t just supply paint, we partner with painters, specifiers, builders, and DIY enthusiasts to bring life and personality to homes, workplaces, and communities. With deep local roots and a commitment to forward-thinking solutions, our brands deliver reliability and excellence every step of the way.

We’re looking for an energetic, full-time Store Manager to join our Taubmans store in Chermside. The successful candidate will be responsible for retail fundamentals, including outstanding customer service, reporting, promotions, and merchandising standards. You will help achieve sales and profitability growth, whilst while maintaining a productive, and safe work environment.

Responsibilities

· Demonstrate exceptional customer service, accountability, ownership, teamwork, promoting engagement and offering solutions

· Maintain the team's knowledge, skills, and behaviours to ensure a successful store culture

· Tinting & mixing paint, palletising paint drums, arranging orders for delivery & colour matching

· Deliveries using the Store vehicle

· Inventory, ordering, stock replenishment

· Assisting to grow store revenue and targets and hitting KPI’s

· Maximising the sales approach to focus on the features and benefits of PPG products

· Assisting to implement marketing and promotional plans to maximise sales potential

· Maintain and continue development of customer relationships. Offering advice/solutions to customers, both trade and retail

· Operate point of sale system and prepare sales invoices following company policy

· Assist to achieve and adhere to store standards, including EHS, training & housekeeping

· Uphold and maintain the highest levels of safety for all team, customers & contractors

About you

· Motivated with the ability to demonstrate initiative

· Experience in retail sales, with a strong customer focus, strong communication and interpersonal skills

· Ability to prioritise in a fast-paced environment

· Visual Merchandising experience preferred, not essential

· An eye for detail, with a focus on safety and driving sales results

· Comfortable with technology - computer literacy is a must

· Available Monday – Friday between 6.30am – 4.30pm for a 38 hour work week

Requirements

· Previous Assistant Store Manager or Experienced Sales Assistant

· A valid driver’s license

· Permanent Working Rights

· Paint industry experience is not mandatory – training can be provided

What We Offer

· Opportunities for development and long-term career progression

· Commitment to ongoing job security, development, and growth

· Good work/life balance

· Performance based incentive programs

· Access to corporate discounts, including WhereFit, that provide wellness benefits to our employees

· Give back to local communities with our PPG Colourful communities program

· PPG Recognition programs

· Generous discounts on PPG products through our company owned store network

About us:

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD™

Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @PPG on X.

The PPG Way 2030

We are customer champions

Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen, move fast and don’t stop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win, we all grow.

We act with purpose and speed

Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility, using quality data to develop solutions that create value.

We are excellent operators

Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role, we identify problems, take ownership and always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support our frontline, the faces of PPG to our customers.

We compete to win

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We are PPG proud

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PPG provides equal opportunity to all candidates and employees. We offer an opportunity to grow and develop your career in an environment that provides a fulfilling workplace for employees, creates an environment for continuous learning, and embraces the ideas and diversity of others. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability status, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

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