Shop Manager 80 - 100 %
Transa Backpacking AG
Zermatt
Key information
- Publication date:24 December 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Zermatt
Job summary
Join us as a Shop Manager in Zermatt at Transa! Lead a passionate team.
Tasks
- Oversee operations for Yosemite by Transa and Icebreaker shops.
- Deliver exceptional customer service and manage staff effectively.
- Drive sales, budgeting, and employee development initiatives.
Skills
- Prior leadership experience in retail is essential for success.
- Strong communication skills in German and English are required.
- Digital proficiency and a passion for outdoor activities are a must.
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In this role, you are responsible for the Yosemite by Transa and Icebreaker Zermatt shops. Together with a 10-member team, you lead the two shops and bear the professional and personnel responsibility. All team members share the same goal: to provide our customers with the best advice on everything related to outdoor products. Does such an environment appeal to you? Are you interested in a varied position in Zermatt? Then read on...
YOUR SPECIALTY AS A SHOP MANAGER
- Rethinking retail, ensuring a positive customer experience while not forgetting the essential needs of employees? That is what your leadership role is about.
- Connecting people, understanding contexts, and bringing together the right interfaces. It’s in your blood.
- Managing the numbers for personnel planning, sales, and branch costs. You have it under control.
- Onboarding new employees and supporting them both personally and professionally. Absolutely necessary.
- Actively supporting daily sales in Zermatt while keeping an overview of shift planning. That’s part of it too.
- Exchanging knowledge, shaping the assortment, and ensuring product know-how within the team. The best thing in the world.
- The outdoor world and our extensive outdoor assortment. They are your home.
THIS IS YOU
- Several years of leadership experience, ideally in retail. It shows in your profile.
- Development of employees and targeted promotion. That’s needed.
- Experience in retail and with sales strategy aspects. You bring that along.
- Good oral and written German skills. You have at least C1 level in English. And if French is also part of your skills: great.
- Digitally savvy and proficient in common MS programs. Of course.
- Your environment describes you as open, communicative, and solution-oriented. Definitely.
- New organizational models and agile working methods. They inspire you.
- Outdoors on travel or outdoor adventures. Your hobby.
YOUR BENEFITS
- A shared spirit of outdoor enthusiasts that can move mountains
- Generous employee discount and attractive benefits with partners
- Above-standard and part-time friendly social benefits
- Possibility of unpaid leave
- Loyalty bonus (vacation or money) every 5 years
- Employee events from outdoor cooking to bivouac tours
- And much more
Then we look forward to your online application.
#getoutbutright #nextstopTransa
THIS IS US
Transa Backpacking AG has been the competence center for high-quality travel and outdoor equipment for over 45 years. The guiding principle «Get out. But right.» is lived by around 500 employees. We are organized in circles and use the patterns of Sociocracy 3.0 – this ensures employees are deployed according to their skills. In the branches in Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Vevey, and Winterthur, the two outlet stores, and the Yosemite station store in Zermatt, there are over 42,000 products from around 550 brands. Should products ever get damaged, we take care of them in the repair workshop in Zurich Altstetten.MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mäni at: manfred.bruegger@transa.ch (Please do not send your application by email for data protection reasons)
We want to fill this vacancy as a Shop Manager full-time or part-time without support from personnel service providers.
