Store Manager - Bealls New Smyrna Bch

Interaction:

• Reports to the Regional Director, District Manager, or Area Store Manager, with extensive interaction with the Regional Manager Operations, Regional Manager of Merchandising, and Regional Visual Merchandise Manager.
• Some interaction with various Corporate personnel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

People:

• Recruits, hires, and on boards direct reports, including all management and hourly associates.
• Maintains a fully staffed store through succession planning, building bench strength, and filling all openings in a timely manner.
• Leads training, on-going development and performance feedback for all associates and the Management Team.
• Develops, builds and maintains ongoing, collaborative, working relationships among the store team to achieve the goals of the organization.
• Leads and coaches a timely resolution of associate concerns and customer situations.
• Influences and promotes a climate which encourages others to do their best. Identifies and uses new, creative ways to motivate others.

Disciplines:

• Drives store merchandise presentations that maximizes sales. Ability to re-merchandise in order to drive a satisfied customer experience and meet sales plan results.
• Treats our product with care and respect by maintaining a clean, neat and organized store.
• Executes merchandise functions within the store, including pricing policies and sales events.
• Ensures visual execution standards are met.

Process:

• Communicates effectively with direct reports, Regional teams, and Corporate partners.
• Leads and models a consistent customer experience daily.
• Builds customer loyalty by driving the Bealls Credit Card Program and email capture.
• Initiates, supports, and implements changes needed to improve the company's efficiency.
• Creates and implements overall store action plans to drive key performance indicators and advance results around people, operations, merchandising, financial and customer aspects of the business.
• Evaluates and responds to store sales and payroll results on a daily basis using sales data and workforce scheduler.
• Executes all company policies, procedures, processes and ensures full compliance of federal, state and local laws and regulations.
• Manages controllable expenses at store level.
• Performs all operational functions needed to run the store on a daily basis (e.g. opening, closing, POS system, computer network, maintenance, customer service and sales).
• Manages a safe working environment and the ongoing protection of Beall's assets and funds.
• Accountable for all operations within their building.

Supervisory Functions:

• Supervise management associates through activities including (but not restricted to) hiring, motivating, delegating, promoting, counseling and coaching, performance appraisals and pay-rate reviews; scheduling and terminating.

Physical Demands:

• Must have adequate vision, speech, hearing and physical ability to perform essential job duties.
• Must be able to stand/walk 95% of the day to perform the essential job duties.
• Must be able to climb 12 foot ladder.
• Must have full body rotation (i.e. bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, etc.).
• Must be able to lift at least 20 pounds.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of five years retail management experience with a two year college degree or equivalent upper-level retail management experience.
• Must have strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly organized and able to adapt to quickly changing priorities.
• Proven ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks efficiently.
• Demonstrates entrepreneurial, strategic, and analytical skills.
• Ability to work well with all levels of management, build partnerships and influence teams.
• Schedule flexibility to include evenings, weekends, and holidays to meet demands of the business. A minimum of 45 hours are to be worked per week.
• Must have a valid Florida driver license and reliable transportation.
• Ability to travel based on business needs.