History of Container Store

The Container Store is a primary retail chain concentrating in home organization products, such as wire shelving, plastic shower totes, shoe bags, food packaging, knife and peg racks, and bins. Founded in Dallas, Texas, the company has 21 stores and nine in Texas, four in Illinois, two in Georgia, two in the Washington, D.C. area, two in California, one in Colorado, and one in Florida. The company planned to open its 22nd store in White Plains, New York, in the fall of 2000. In adding to its retail outlets, The Container Store also sells merchandise throughout numerous catalogs. In 1999 it procured Elfa International, a European based wire shelving company.

The Container Store features much of its achievement to its employees, who are specifically trained to offer customers higher service. The company pays its employees beyond standard wages and has an employee turnover far below the industry standard. The Container Store positioned first in Fortune magazine’s ‘100 Best Companies to work for in America’ survey in 1999. The company is owned by its creators: CEO Garrett Boone and President Kip Tindell. Since beginning, The Container Store’s sales have augmented about 20 to 25 percent a year.

Job Description/Average Wage

Sales Associate: A Sales Associate is accountable for sustaining exceptional customer service as per Company standards, generating sales, merchandising, and safeguarding company benefits. Daily tasks and responsibilities include:

• Ensuring that all customer receives excellent service through providing a friendly environment, which includes greeting and acknowledging each customer, maintaining solid product information and all other features of customer service.
• Maintaining an alertness of all promotions and advertisements.
• Helping in floor moves, merchandising, show maintenance, and housekeeping
• Assisting in practicing and replenishing merchandise and checking floor stock.
• Aiding clients in locating merchandise.

The hourly salary for this position is around $11-$15.

General Manager: A General Manager is liable for the overall choice making of the whole department in a company. Since this position is one of the premier positions in the company, a general manager has many tasks particularly in motivating and overall overseeing of the company’s allocated department performance including its employees as well. Besides, a general manager has all of the permission in terms of decision making in a department’s performance, operations, human resource recruitment and other things related to the company including salaries and expenses.

The annual wage for this position is $77,000 to $85,000.

Sales Manager: This role is accountable for the expansion and performance of all sales activities in allocated market. Staffs and directs a sales team and gives leadership towards the achievement of utmost productivity and expansion in line with company dream and values. Launches plans and strategies to increase the customer base in the marketing area and contributes to the development of training and educational programs for customers and Account Executives.

Candidate for this position can expect to have an annual salary of $39,000–$42,000.

How to apply

If you want to apply for the job, or for the other available jobs they offer, you may visit them at their website and read further instructions on how you will apply for the position you desired.

http://www.containerstore.com/careers/index.html