Experience
Aeropostale!
The true spirit of Aeropostale is in the people who work hard each and every day to help achieve success for the brand and for each other. Aeropostale employees are smart, creative, energetic, talented, and diverse individuals who embrace the core vision, mission, and values of the company. Aeropostale has become one of the fastest growing and most recognized young men's and women's, specialty retailers. We have grown to over 900 stores nationwide, and still counting. Aeropostale prides itself on carrying a focused selection of trend setting, high quality, graphic tees, denim, bottoms, dorm gear and accessories, all at an affordable price.
Position:
Store Manager
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Sales
- Meet sales plans and expectations
- Meet statistical quality selling expectations
- Develop/implement seasonal strategies to increase sales and quality selling statistics
- Lead the selling effort on the floor
- Act as role model for customer interaction
- Personnel
- Make sound hiring decisions
- Anticipate hiring needs, recruit management and staff
- Train employees for increased effectiveness
- Develop employees to support career growth, meet expectations for internal promotion
- Evaluate performance against company standards
- Merchandising
- Lead execution of company directed floor set and visual display
- Lead execution of company marketing strategies
- Drive sales results by ensuring appropriate merchandise levels on selling floor
- Operations
- Responsible for executing company policy and procedures related to store operations
CRITICAL SKILLS:
- Leadership
- Interpersonal communication
- Planning
- Time management
- Decision making
- Motivation
- Delegation
- Problem solving
- Staff and management development
- Competition and industry awareness
PERSONAL TRAITS:
- Commitment to career growth of self and others
- Team focus
- Professional
- Confident
- Awareness of fashion trends and personal appearance
- Flexible, open to the ideas of others
- Positive outlook
- High level of integrity