H&M Store Manager - Alderwood Mall

About the role

As a Store Manager, you’ll be responsible for the total holistic omni customer experience in your store, ensuring high visual and commercial curation & standards according to the store format location and global & regional strategies. You have the responsibility of leading the full store team to excel. You create an inclusive culture that promotes collaboration and entrepreneurial spirit and are responsible & aware of the store’s strengths, opportunities, and competitors. You’ll also be the person who analyzes and follows up on sales, creating plans to optimize results and profits.

Responsibilities

• Customer Sales & Profit
• Responsible for the total OMNI customer experience in your store, ensuring visual and commercial curation according to your store format environment, global guidelines and regional strategies
• Represent yourself and the H&M brand positively during all customer interactions
• Establish, analyze, and follow up on sales & budget goals, and create plans to optimize results
• Ensure personal customer service is provided in all areas of the store, ensuring your team initiates customer interactions, guiding customers through fashion stories and works towards actively selling our products
• Following up that your teams are actively promoting our Customer Loyalty App (Hello Member) & in-store sustainability initiatives
• Schedule to budgeted hours plan in line with sales budget and commercial activities
• Ensure correct routines in fitting room and checkout, including transaction, returns and exchanges
• Be aware of your store strengths and opportunities, identifying commercial opportunities and acting on them. Maintain competitor awareness & knowledge
• Manage store maintenance in a cost-efficient way
• Ensure all admin routines for both people and operations are handled in a correct way
• Fashion & Trend Awareness
• Keep up to date with fashion scene, trends, tendencies, styles, brands, products, competitors, and relevant influencers, etc
• Ensure your team provides product and fashion knowledge as well as other relevant information during customer interactions
• Ensure good understanding of the local area of your store, customers, competition, and fashion trends
• Team & Development
• Responsible for talent and performance management in your store – recruiting, onboarding, upskilling, and developing your team
• Complete performance evaluations and succession planning to support business needs & team
• Retail Operations/ Visual & Commercial Execution
• Ensure a clean and tidy sales floor and back of house
• Ensure high fashion quality, visual and commercial product presentation, with great garment care
• Ensure good stock levels and provide input on allocation to relevant area or sales market colleagues
• Responsible for & supports with the daily opening & closing of store routines and processes
• Ensure the full garment cycle – from delivery to garment presentation – and fitting room routines are according to our standards, processes, utilizing all tools and technology provided
• Upkeep & following best practices for any in-store OMNI Services & in-store tech services/tools etc (Instore Care App, Click & Collect, Smart Store etc)
• Secure a strong balance and the maintenance of price signs in-store and throughout the sales floor/store following guidelines according to global & local strategies & sales market/regional requirements to ensure a strong and consistent price perception throughout the store
• Update & maintenance of BOH areas for all colleagues (key information, health & safety, tidiness etc)

Qualifications

• Who You Are
• To be a successful and effective Store Manager, you’ll be a strong leader who enjoys taking responsibility for others.
• Confident in team coaching & development. You must be ambitious, an effective communicator, an analytical solution finder, capable of working with numbers & managing statistics.
• Relevant experience working in a leadership position that you can apply to your role
• Retail management and retail operations experience
• Experience collaborating closely with a team

Benefits

• We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.
• In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.
• We offer: 25% Staff Discount - Medical, Pharmacy Vision and Dental Coverage – Employee Assistance Program - Vacation, Wellness, Holiday and Parental Pay – 401K – Commuter Benefits, Health and Dependent Care FSA. Plus, additional Voluntary Benefits.

Inclusion & Diversity

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.

Company Description

At H&M, our purpose is to liberate fashion for the many. We want to shape a new world in Fashion. A world with one ultimate goal: to unleash your self-expression. As an H&M colleague, you’re encouraged to be yourself & more. You’ll take on new responsibilities from day one, learn skills for life, and find new ways to make your big dreams come true.