History of Hudson’s Bay

The company is Canada’s number one department store retailer and is also Canada’s oldest corporation. On May 2, 1670, King Charles II awarded 18 investors a charter incorporating them as the Governor and Company of adventurers of England trading into Hudson’s Bay. In its initial century the company traded with the North American Indians, founded forts on Hudson Bay, and effectively fought with U.S. and Canadian competitors to make its fur trade.

By the late 1990s, in a coast-to-coast operation accounting for nearly eight percent of Canadian retail sales and about 37 percent of department store sales, the company owned and supervised about 540 stores in three main retail formats: the Bay fashion department stores, about 100 strong and usually 140,000 to 180,000 square feet in size; Zellers, Canada’s primary discount department store, with over 340 units that average 77,500 square feet; and Fields, a chain in western Canada of over 100 small clothing stores.

Job Description and Average Wage

Store Manager: The Store Manager is a business leader who is income minded, and able to perform the Bay tactic throughout effectual management of people and process.   Dynamic leadership abilities, merged with outstanding communication, analytical, and in-store marketing skills are key elements of this position. The position will develop short and long term action plans that address opportunities and positively impact the business. This makes and performs development plans to drive best possible performance for all direct reports.

The average yearly salary for a Store Manager is around $34,000 to $63,000.

Sales Specialist: As the assigned person, you must be a friendly, customer-centered individual who understands the importance and intricacies of being ready to serve the customer.   As such you must have the understanding, skills and sources to deliver the optimal customer experience.  This will implement the suitable selling behaviors consistently. You will make your client base throughout the preferred customer program.

Sales Specialist can expect to get $20,000 – $75,000 annually.

Staff Pharmacist: The Staff Pharmacist’s primary liability is to sustain the highest professional level of customer service standards, throughout consistent and thorough patient care.   This involves developing and sustaining an atmosphere of customer service friendliness that will foster clientele building and maintained profitable expansion for the unit. The Staff Pharmacist is also accountable for the accuracy, efficiency and integrity towards company policy and legislative rules in the pharmacy unit.

The average wage for this job is around $43,000 — $121,000 a year.

Sales Associate: This performs business strategies to deliver upon all departmental goals. This will consistently demonstrate appropriate vending behaviors to meet and surpass customer anticipations. The position will make relationships throughout regular communication with existing clientele and attracting new clients. This will consistently leverage product information to augment the service experience and vend the product.

The hourly salary is around $9-$14.

Planning Manager: A great Planning Manager will colleague with the buying team to attain overall financial and tactical objectives.   A Planning Manager supervises the monetary performance of their merchandise department and optimizes assortment placement and quantification. This develops and implements merchandising monetary plans. This will also support the expansion of assortment plans.

The average salary for this job is around $57,000 — $62,000 a year.

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 site and apply for the position you wish.

http://www2.hbc.com/hbc/careers/