Manager in Training

Position Overview

The Manager in Training (MIT) works with store manager and store teams in achieving sales goals, driving a customer focused environment, managing talent and performance, and executing visual standards. The MIT participates in a training program to prepare them for a store manager position within 3 – 6 months. The MIT is hired with the expectation that they are relocatable to a specific new store or a group of new and existing stores.

Requirements

• A high school degree or GED required; a business or retail merchandising degree preferred.
• Supervisory experience required in a customer focused environment; experience in the fashion industry preferred.
• Proven track record of achieving and setting goals and executing company direction.
• Experience in hiring, promoting, and motivating talent.
• Proven ability to lead by example, make sound decisions, and demonstrate professionalism.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Diligence and the ability to persevere in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Must commit to a specific store location or a group of new and existing stores.

Unique/Physical Requirements

• Work varied hours/days as business dictates.
• Able to reach, push, pull, stand, squat and bend for up to 8 hours or longer as necessary.
• Able to operate and use all equipment necessary to run the store.
• Able to operate computerized register system.
• Able to move or handle merchandise throughout the store weighing up to 50 pounds.

Benefits Overview

• We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial security, and work-life balance.
• Full-time associates are eligible for a suite of benefits, including:
• Choice of three medical plans, including a PPO plan or High-Deductible plans.
• High-Deductible plans offer the option of a Health Savings Account, with employer contribution.
• Dental, and Vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent Care).
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity coverage.
• Voluntary Life, Spouse, and Child Life Insurance.
• Long-Term Disability coverage.
• Basic Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability coverage provided by the Company.
• Access to our Wellbeing platform with Personify Health.
• An Employee Assistance Program available for associates and their families.
• After 6 months of employment, you may be eligible for our 401(k), which offers an immediately vested Safe Harbor matching contribution.
• The Company supports continued education with our Tuition Assistance program, available after 1 year of employment.
• The Company provides early access to earnings powered by PayActiv.
• Paid Time Off is earned on an accrued basis (the accrual for newly hired Full time Assistant and First Assistant is 3.08 hours per pay period).
• Sick time is awarded each January (56 hours, prorated based on hire date unless otherwise required by applicable law).
• Holiday pay that includes New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and two weeks of New Parent Leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement.
• Paid Time Off is earned on an accrued basis (the accrual for newly hired Full time Assistant and First Assistant is 3.08 hours per pay period).
• Sick time is awarded each January (56 hours, prorated based on hire date unless otherwise required by applicable law).
• Holiday pay that includes New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and two weeks of New Parent Leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement.
• Paid Time Off is earned on an accrued basis (the accrual for newly hired Full time Assistant and First Assistant is 3.08 hours per pay period).
• Sick time is awarded each January (56 hours, prorated based on hire date unless otherwise required by applicable law).
• Holiday pay that includes New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and two weeks of New Parent Leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all employment decisions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.