Shop Manager 80 - 100 % (m/f/d)

Zermatt

Key information

Publication date:06 October 2025
Workload:80 – 100%
Contract type:Unlimited employment
Place of work:Zermatt

For our branches in Zermatt, we are looking for a Shop Manager 80 - 100 % (m/f/d) starting May 1, 2026, or by arrangement.

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’s what your leadership role is about.
Connecting people, understanding relationships, and bringing the right interfaces together. 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, co-designing the assortment, and ensuring product know-how within the team. The best thing in the world.
The outdoor world and our extensive outdoor assortment. 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-strategic aspects. You bring that along.
Good oral and written German language 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. 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

The right equipment in your backpack? Does this role as Shop Manager in Zermatt appeal to you?

Then we look forward to your online application.
#getoutbutright

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 that employees are deployed according to their skills. In the branches in Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Vevey, and Winterthur, the two outlet branches, as well as 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 the support of personnel service providers.