Keyholder at The SPORT Gallery and ARENA Coffee Bar

Keyholder at The SPORT Gallery and ARENA Coffee Bar

As a Keyholder, you'll be working at our beautiful gallery in the Distillery District in Toronto. During a typical work day you'll open the gallery and coffee bar, making sure everything is tidy and set in place. You'll greet customers, talk sports, and help them pick out the perfect item or artwork. You'll receive new products, add them to our inventory system and get them ready to be sold in-store and on our online shop. You'll look out for online orders and prep them to be shipped. You'll work on merchandise displays, using your knowledge of current and historic sports to set up timely displays—and ones that tell a story. As a barista, you'll train on the art of making the perfect espresso, help make coffees and espresso drinks on the ARENA Coffee Bar side, serve alcoholic drinks responsibly, all while keeping everything clean and tidy.

You'll work with our small team on pretty much everything, and can focus on what your specific strengths and interests are. If you've got an eye for photography, videos, and social content, you'll help with posting and driving engagement on our social platforms. Our goal each day will be to help make The SPORT Gallery a haven for existing sports fans, and a place where yet-to-be-fans can learn and gain an appreciation for the history and art of sport.

Job Qualifications

1. Minimum 3 years experience in a retail store or similar
2. Strong visual merchandising skills, extremely tidy, with A+ folding skills, and a clean-as-you-go work style
3. Sports knowledge preferred (especially historical sports)
4. Hard-working, punctual, creative, and goal-oriented
5. Must be Smart Serve certified within 2 weeks of start date
6. Must be comfortable working under pressure and in a fast-paced environment
7. Attention-to-detail

Schedule: Ideal candidate would be available full-time (40 hour week). Must be able to work evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

1. Provide a welcoming environment for customers
2. Maintain clean and well-merchandised displays
3. Receive shipments and put into inventory system
4. Process in-store purchases
5. Package online orders with great attention to detail
6. Help on the ARENA Coffee Bar side receiving orders and making espresso beverages
7. Assist with duties during and leading up to gallery events
8. More depending on your area of interest (social, photography, events, marketing, etc)

Application

To apply please submit your application at this link.

About The SPORT Gallery

We're not your average sports store. The SPORT Gallery is home to The SPORT Archive, one of the most significant collections of North American sports photography, and is therefore more than a retail space. SPORT magazine started in 1946 – eight years prior to Sports Illustrated – and quickly trailblazed its way into the public consciousness. We keep SPORT’s memory alive by preserving over 250,000 original negatives and transparencies, and through our physical locations, which allow visitors to travel back in time and experience the golden era of sports.

The apparel, headwear, accessories, and books we feature are all designed to mirror what you see in the pages of SPORT and in the museum-quality prints on our walls (which we produce in-store in Toronto). Rather than offer “on-field” jerseys or other modern, easily found styles, we work with premium brands to create one-of-a-kind products that tell a story. Our goal is to stay true to our SPORT roots and to communicate the past. To work at The SPORT Gallery is to understand this connection and help tell our unique story.