Hot Topic
Hot Topic 0364 - Fashion Place
StoreManager
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“Store Manager at Hot Topic. Skills: sales targets, recruiting, development, performance management, customer service, operations, merchandising. Ensure that your store achieves the sales plan and/or comp sales goals. Recruit, develop, and retain a super collaborative and passionate team to run your store alongside you”
What You'll Achieve.
achieves the sales plan; achieves comp sales goals; hit sales targets
Industry & Context.
able to navigate your way around the store, able to merchandise product utilizing approved store equipment, able to pack and unpack boxes of awesome merch that may weigh up to 50 pounds
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
1-2 years of retail store management, communication skills, recruiting skills, operations skills (payroll, reporting, scheduling, merchandising), High school diploma or GED equivalent, ability to navigate store, ability to merchandise product utilizing approved store equipment, ability to pack and unpack boxes of merchandise that may weigh up to 50 pounds
Nice to Have
a degree
What You'll Do.
Ensure that your store achieves the sales plan and/or comp sales goals
and retain a super collaborative and passionate team to run your store alongside you
Create buzz and customer engagement through staying connected on social media
store web applications
Lead an operationally sound store
Keep watch on shrink/loss prevention
and external factors that will affect business
Collaboratively communicate with retail leadership and HQ partners on trends & customer feedback
Run sales reports and use data to help guide your strategy to hit sales targets
Adapt to new technologies
communicate company policies & procedures
and control supply ownership
Merchandise the store in a compelling way
leveraging planograms as a guide
while launching all promos on time
Continually building a bench of equally talented
passionate staff through mentorship
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Recruit, develop, and retain a super collaborative and passionate team to run your store alongside you; Collaboratively communicate with retail leadership and HQ partners on trends & customer feedback
Communication Scope
communication; communicate company policies & procedures; communicate with retail leadership; communicate with HQ partners
Full Job Description
## Description At Hot Topic, we’re passionate about a few things: music, pop culture, and creating the most amazing in-store experience for our customers and employees. We’re on the search for a Store Manager that will be at the forefront of bringing the fandom to life. You’ll lead the store in achieving store objectives with regards to hitting sales targets, recruiting, development, and performance management. You’ll be a retail maverick that can handle anything that comes your way. You’ll be a believer in developing talent and providing the best customer service in the mall. In short, you’re a superhero. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO Ensure that your store achieves the sales plan and/or comp sales goals. It’s not all about the Benjamins, but then it kind of is Recruit, develop, and retain a super collaborative and passionate team to run your store alongside you You’re the leader of the band, and you love to create buzz and customer engagement through staying connected on social media, store web applications, and clienteling Lead an operationally sound business; you’ll bring the right balance of organizational structure, delegation & autonomy, and customer first selling practices Keep watch (like the Night’s Watch) on shrink/loss prevention, payroll hours, schedules, and external factors that will affect business Collaboratively communicate with retail leadership and HQ partners on trends & customer feedback Run sales reports and use data to help guide your strategy to hit sales targets You’ve got the keys to the kingdom, and you’re not afraid to use them! You’re willing to adapt to new technologies, communicate company policies & procedures, and control supply ownership (spending only as needed) Deliver the goods - you’ll merchandise the store in a compelling way, leveraging planograms as a guide, while launching all promos on time Every Fellowship needs a Gandalf! Ensure that you’re continually building a bench of equally talented, passionate staff through mentorship, reco
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