Department Manager - Softlines

About the role

As a Department Manager in Softlines, you will lead a team of passionate and knowledgeable team who strive to exceed customer expectations by focusing on extraordinary customer experiences. You are responsible for understanding sales goals, planning, and executing daily/weekly workloads to deliver on department and store sales goals as well as customer engagement. You will create schedules that aligns with customer and business needs and lead a culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management on critical service and engagement behaviors. You will quickly respond to and deescalate negative customer experiences and ensure that your team understands and is empowered to make things right for the best customers in the world.

Responsibilities

• Promote a positive team and customer centric culture
• Lead a culture of accountability through clear expectations
• Utilize business knowledge to understand, troubleshoot and follow-up on opportunity areas
• Ensure customers have an extraordinary experience while shopping
• Greet every customer with eye contact and smile in your authentic way
• Manage financial and operational duties
• Customer relations
• Supervise, train, and develop all sales staff associated with assigned areas
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of retail experience
• One year of retail experience in retail store operations within the last two years is required
• Able to learn and adapt to current technology needs
• Able to think quickly on the spot to answer customer questions
• Able to take initiative
• Able to share brand knowledge
• Able to lead teams to meet organizational objectives
• Excellent attention to detail
• Willing to cross-train and work in other areas of the store, as needed
• Must possess a welcoming and helpful attitude toward customers and other team members
• Excellent communication skills
• Basic computer skills

Preferred qualifications

• Previous experience in Apparel/Accessories/Prestige Brands preferred
• Previous retail supervisory experience preferred

Pay

Salary minimum $20.60, salary maximum $34.46

Schedule

Extended duty hours / varying work schedules, shift work, 24/7 365 days/year

Benefits

• Flexible scheduling
• Comprehensive medical, dental, life and disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Shift differential/holiday pay
• Traditional pension and 401K plan
• Access to the base and its facilities
• Status as an employee of the Exchange