Store Manager

New Store Opening in La Crosse, WI!!

We are excited to announce a new store opening in La Crosse, WI in Fall 2026. This position plays a crucial role in ensuring the store's success and contributes to overall company growth.

People

• Provide guidance, training, and support to sales teams to improve sales techniques, strategies, and overall performance.
• Lead and supervise the entire employee life cycle, including recruitment selection, training, and development and succession planning by cultivating and maintaining a top-performing team.
• Enhance employee engagement and nurture a positive workplace culture and build effective teams.
• Communicates effectively.

Process

• Achieve or surpass store and annual operating benchmarks.
• Evaluate team performance, objectives, and behaviors to determine effectiveness.
• Model the highest standards for surpassing customer expectations.
• Learn, model and teach established sales and design processes.
• Sustain store profitability by maintaining profit and loss statements, financial metrics, and margins.

Brand Advocacy

• Model and teach product knowledge.
• Champion the company’s brand strategy and first-in-class customer experience.
• Align merchandizing, pricing and product flow to company standards.
• Uphold brand visual standards in the store by ensuring cleanliness in employee and customer areas.

Operations

• Leverages store visit forms.
• Hosts regular weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings with staff.
• Ensure proper execution of all existing and new systems and administrative procedures.
• Collaborate with support teams to ensure flawless execution of operational excellence.
• Adhere to legal and efficient accounting procedures.
• Plan and execute sales promotion and events along with projects as needed for the improvement of the market and company.

Scope & Impact

This position holds significant influence over the store's financial health, team morale and development, operational efficiency, and the overall customer experience and reputation in the community. Store revenue up to $5 million per year and leadership of up to 15 direct reports.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 3-5 years in business unit with a sales retail emphasis.
• Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office 365, financial understanding, adept interpersonal communication, analytical abilities, goal orientation, team management, and customer service.
• Other: Ability to work the schedule and hours dictated by business needs, to include evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience managing in a retail environment with a strong focus on sales.
• Thorough understanding of profit and loss.
• Strong business acumen.
• Advanced interpersonal skills, communication skills & experience in building effective relationships.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Up to 15 direct reports.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

• Ability to lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds.
• Nearly continuous use of repetitive hand motions, hearing and listening.
• Often required to sit, walk, bend and stoop.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the incumbent for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Total Compensation Range

Total Compensation Range: $60,000 - $95,000 per year (inclusive of base, commission and bonus)

Base Pay

Base Pay: $60,000 per year

Commission & Bonus

• Earn more with UNCAPPED commission on written sales – 3% on La-Z-Boy Design Sales and 2% on other sales, other than La-Z-Boy Design Sales.
• Monthly bonus opportunity of up to $1,500 based on defined group sales goals

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental and Basic Life Insurance, available 401k retirement plan with company match of up to 6%.
• Paid time off includes: 9-11 paid holidays each year, two weeks’ prorated vacation as a new hire and either personal time (non-exempt only) or state mandated sick time.

Driver Management Program

If this role requires travel/driving in order to perform the key responsibilities outlined above, candidates must be able to meet the qualifications noted in the company’s Driver Management Program to be considered for the role.