Job description
Area Manager
Client Overview:
Our client is a well-known apparel company located in Chicago, looking for an energetic and forward thinking Area Manager.
Area Manager Overview:
The Area Manager position plays a crucial role in the growth, development, and image of our client. The ideal candidate will possess leadership qualities as well as a proven ability to continuously coach, teach, and improve selling techniques.
Area Manager Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all aspects of 1-3* women’s clothing stores
- Improve, augment, and reinforce the current selling culture
- Recruit, interview, hire, and retain top-notch employees
- Troubleshoot, put out fires, and handle multitudes of personnel issues & needs
- Explain, demonstrate, imitate, correct, and repeat behaviors, practices, and techniques to employees and managers
- Coach, teach and improve selling techniques throughout all stores
- Be a supreme motivator
- Manage, promote, and exemplify AKIRA's culture and business standards
Area Manager Qualifications:
- 2+ years of operations experience in a retail (preferably fashion) environment across multi-location operator
- Strong personnel management and retail operations knowledge, including inventory control, loss prevention, retail systems, merchandising, customer service, and store budget preparation
- Possess knowledge of effective merchandise presentation standards
- Ability to improve processes and reporting tools and standardize work
- Prefer working in a highly entrepreneurial environment where being hands-on is critical to the day to day running of the business
- Be decisive and have the ability to “get the job done”
- Be innovative and forward-thinking; not satisfied with the status quo
- Possess strong communication skills, product knowledge, and a balance of analytical and creative abilities
- Have demonstrated the ability to work in a collaborative environment and be skillful at establishing and sustaining strong interpersonal relationships
- Demonstrate strong organizational, presentation, and communication skills
- Have the ability to supervise and direct employee
- Fanatical work ethic
- Boundless energy and enthusiasm
- Strong analytical and computer skills
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