Job description
Our client, a well-known clothing boutique presenting the latest must-have collections, is looking for a Store manager, to join their team in the St. Louis area, starting immediately!
Overview:
These people are fanatical about sales, goal driven & inspirational and motivational leaders. They ensure that our customers are styled by experts who eat, sleep, and breathe fashion. We live to make our customers look & feel good! They relentlessly hire & train to ensure their store has top notch talent! Through leading by example and thinking & acting like an owner, our managers stop at nothing from achieving their personal & store goals.
Over time, a store takes on the personality of the manager. It’s either getting stronger or weaker every day. The change is imperceptible from day to day, but over a multi-month period, the results become obvious.
Responsibilities:
- Recruiting, interviewing, & hiring new employees & managers
- Training, developing, & retaining top-notch employees & managers
- Developing & maintaining a high store morale
- Reinforcing & improving our selling culture through our 5 steps of selling
- Delivering in the moment & written feedback
- Acting as a supreme motivator for employees & managers
- Ensuring store operations and visual presentation are up to store and brand standards
- Upholding and enforcing all policies
- Achieving & surpassing individual sales goals
- Achieving & surpassing the store’s daily, weekly, & monthly sales goals
- Leading by example to promote and exemplify the brand culture, & code of conduct through our 4 principles
- Passion for fashion
- Fanatical work ethic
- Strong Leadership skills
- Excellent communication & organizational skills
- High motivation and an appropriate sense of urgency
- Minimum of 1 year experience in retail or service industry management
- Ability to supervise, motivate, & direct employees effectively
- Ability to adapt well to new direction and embrace change
- In-depth knowledge of visual merchandising & customer service
- In-depth knowledge of store operations including: inventory control, loss prevention, retail systems, & store budget preparation
- Ability to work in a highly entrepreneurial environment, where being hands-on is critical to our store’s success
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment and establish & sustain strong relationships with employees & managers