Number One Shoes
Small teams, fast promotion. Where a first job can become a store of your own.
Number One Shoes has been fitting New Zealanders for school, work and weekends for decades, with stores in most main centres and plenty of provincial towns.
Footwear stores run on small teams, which changes the job entirely. You are not one of a hundred — you are one of five or six, which means you learn the till, the stockroom, the roster and the sales targets much faster than you would in a big-box store. Store managers here are often in their early twenties.
5–8
People in a typical store
1868
Group trading since
Career pathways
Progression is not automatic, but these are the paths people actually follow at Number One Shoes. The colour deepens as the roles get more senior.
In store
- Sales assistant6–12 monthsStart here
Fitting shoes, running the till, keeping the stockroom under control.
- Keyholder / 2IC6–18 months
Trusted with the keys, the banking and the shift when the manager is out.
- Store manager2–4 years
Your own store: the targets, the roster, the team and the shrinkage.
- Cluster or area manager
Looking after several stores and coaching their managers.
See it for yourself
Clip coming soon
Number One Shoes on the floor, filmed for 7 Jobs 7 Days.
7 Jobs 7 Days spent a shift with the Number One Shoes team. No script, no stock footage — just what the job actually looks like before you apply.