Department Manager

About the role

As a Department Manager at Primark, you will own a department and focus on maximizing its sales, inventory, and standards. Department Managers have the power to impact the business daily by managing inventory, moving product in accordance with customer demand, reviewing and managing planograms and period layouts, and by being commercial—meaning that you'll know what is trending and thus order your merchandise daily to drive sales.

What You'll Do

• Keep an eye on the local market to maintain a competitive advantage in price, product, and shopping experience
• Use data to gain full knowledge of your department's performance to drive sales and meet targets
• Manage stock file accuracy for your department
• Hire, train, coach and motivate a team of Sales Associates and Team Leaders
• Ensure your department delivers an exceptional shopping experience for every customer and a positive work environment for every colleague

What You'll Get

• Robust onboarding period to empower your success
• Tools and resources to excel as we rapidly expand across the globe
• Competitive benefits and work-life balance

What You'll Bring

• At least 2 years of retail leadership experience in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
• Strong commercial acumen
• Experience as either a Store Manager, Assistant Store Manager, or Department Manager
• Nimble and adaptable, able to flex plans and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills and ability to relate to customer needs
• Ability to lead, motivate, and inspire the team, building confidence and enthusiasm
• Resilient with proven ability to lead a team and confident in giving constructive feedback
• Commercially aware with understanding of local market, key competitors, and how to use relevant systems and tools to improve option control and drive sales
• Good planning and organizational skills, prioritizing and working within agreed timescales
• Experience supporting store management with protection of people, property and premises by securing cash, stock and property
• Keyholder responsibility including availability for emergency call outs
• Ability to effectively manage difficult situations and have good problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with managers, supervisors, and hourly colleagues in English to provide instruction, coaching, corrective action, safety instructions and lead teams as a manager daily and in emergencies
• Ability to provide amazing customer service in English, including orally communicating with customers and monitoring the performance of English-speaking colleagues whose job duties require communication with customers

Pay

$62,400 - $75,920