Sales Team Manager

What You Will Do

• Demonstrate a high level of ownership, accountability, and initiative in achieving store objectives and driving the accomplishment of key metrics.
• Inspire and motivate team to deliver positive customer experiences and drive sales through building genuine team, customer, and community relationships, providing personalized service and product recommendations, and maintaining a visually appealing sales floor.
• Develop and implement strategies to execute successful promotional and grassroots events, leading team to effectively perform customer outreach, clienteling, and omnichannel initiatives.
• Collaborate with store operations teams to support execution of floor sets, product placement, pricing, recovery, replenishment, and other operational activities to meet store objectives.
• Participate in weekly leadership workload planning meetings to ensure all company-directed and grassroots event activities are prepped, planned, and scheduled.
• Partner with store HR to ensure associate schedule aligns with business needs and traffic plans.
• Build comprehensive team knowledge and champion continuous training initiatives to ensure associate readiness in delivering service, selling, and operational excellence.
• Set and communicate clear team priorities and expectations.
• Enhance individual and store results through regularly reviewing associate performance, conducting meaningful coaching conversations, and embracing opportunities to continuously teach and develop.
• Drive team retention and engagement by recognizing individual contributions, celebrating store achievements, and promoting upcoming activities.
• Foster a positive store culture by ensuring team members understand their role in achieving store goals and feel valued.
• Support filling open positions timely through recruitment, interviewing, and facilitating team career development conversations to build ready-now bench of store talent.
• Oversee associate onboarding experience, ensuring structured onboarding completion.
• Effectively manage shortage control and inventory accuracy, ensuring team compliance with asset protection, product protection standards, safety guidelines, and security protocols.

Skills And Abilities

• Ability to successfully apply analytics, experience, and judgement to make timely and effective business, people, and profitability decisions.
• Skills and experience to perform in the role and a commitment to continuously learn.
• Ability to develop others through mentorship, effective communication, and side-by-side coaching.
• Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision in a deadline-driven environment.
• Communicate with excellence.
• Comfortable with technology, including smartphones, tablet computers, and Windows-based operating systems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of Retail Leadership experience and a dedication to customer experience excellence.
• Available to work a flexible schedule based on business needs, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must regularly move around all store areas and be accessible to customers.
• Must bend, reach, stretch for product as well as lift, carry, and move at least 40 lbs.