Sales Lead, Full Time - Chestnut Hill, MA
What You’ll Do
- Drive Performance & Revenue
- Own Your Business: Consistently meet and exceed individual sales goals with a relentless focus on driving a high SPH (Sales Per Hour) and KPI’s.
- Customer Mindset: Act as an entrepreneur within the store, leveraging your product expertise to maximize every customer interaction.
- Pioneered Excellence: Maintain extraordinary customer feedback scores (NPS) by delivering an elevated service level that surprises and delights.
- Strategic Styling: Move beyond single-item requests to provide styling consultations, anticipating your client's needs for their entire seasonal wardrobe.
- Sales & Operational Ownership (Keyholder): Opening & Closing: Ensure the store is ready for business the day of and for the next morning, according to the opening and closing checklist. Serve as a trusted keyholder responsible for opening and closing of the store, ensuring all operations, and visual standards are flawlessly executed.
- Safety & Compliance: Act as the primary leader for facility issues, loss prevention incidents, and emergency procedures during assigned shifts.
- Seamless Sales Leadership: Maintain sales floor energy and service standards during your segments, acting as the point of contact for the team and customers ensuring flawless store operations that keeps our elevated service seamless from open to close.
- Transition Management: Conduct chat-ins and handovers during segment changes to communicate key information, ensuring no service gaps occur during staff breaks by maintaining a minimum coverage ratio on the sales floor.
- Visual Excellence: Uphold the VM Guidelines throughout your segment, ensuring recovery during time periods.
- Performance Coaching: Provide in-the-moment coaching and support to associates to ensure sales and service align with the Ref’s service model.
- Master Clienteling & Retention
- Build and Manage a Book: Actively generate and manage a personal client database using Endear and other digital tools to drive repeat business and private appointments.
- Clienteling: Execute personalized, product-focused, and purposeful outreach strategy to ensure your clients are the first to know about new drops and community activations tailored to the client’s specific "Ref Journey" and life milestones.
- Wardrobe Curation: Go beyond the "plus-one", style head-to-toe looks that anticipate your client's needs for their entire lifestyle.
- Appointment Culture: Proactively schedule and host one-on-one styling appointments, providing an elevated, "white-glove" experience that secures customer retention.
- Sustainability Educator: Act as a brand ambassador, sharing the Reformation story and educating customers on our mission to be a circular, climate-positive leader.
- Product Expert: Share deep product knowledge with genuine enthusiasm, translating technical sustainability details into benefits for the customer.
- Feedback Loop: Communicate high-level product feedback to leadership to help continuously improve our merchandising and assortment.
- Team Mentorship: Lead by example on the floor, modeling the sales and service model and sharing pro-tips with the broader team to elevate the collective service level.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven Track Record: At least 2–3 years of experience in a high-volume, sales-driven, or commission-based luxury/premium retail environment with a history of consistently hitting or exceeding SPH and personal sales targets.
- Interpersonal Mastery: Exceptional communication skills and emotional intelligence with the ability to build instant rapport and navigate diverse personalities with ease and professionalism.
- Wardrobing Expertise: A deep passion for styling with a proven ability to "edit" collections for clients based on body type, occasion, and personal style.
- Self-Starter Mentality: A driven approach to challenges and the self-motivation to treat your role like a career, not just a job.
Compensation
At Reformation, we believe in transparency and equity when it comes to compensation. For this role, the anticipated base hourly range is $22.50 depending on a variety of factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and internal compensation equity. Please note that compensation decisions are made thoughtfully and may vary from the listed range to reflect individual circumstances and evolving business needs. Our total rewards package also includes benefits, perks, and opportunities for growth that contribute to overall compensation.
Benefits & Perks
- Employer-sponsored private medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Commuter benefits to help support your travel to and from work
- Competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave, and company holidays for eligible employees
- Retirement planning support for eligible employees, including the option to invest in Environmental Social Governance-aligned (fancy way to say sustainable) funds
- Clothing discount
- Culture events (like our annual Ref Values week and Volunteer Time Off)
- Fertility care support through Carrot, and up to a $5,000 USD reimbursement for related fertility expenses after 1 year of employment
- Donation to community efforts on a yearly basis
Equal Opportunity Employer
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the world we want to live in. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status—in accordance with applicable international, federal, state, and local laws.