The brand delivery manager provides leadership that drives total store results with specific ownership for the product lifecycle and merchandise presentation. The role involves developing and executing short-term action plans and long-term strategies to support growth in sales and service, ensuring maximum productivity, profitability, and compliance with company policies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver a best-in-class, captivating, branded customer experience that builds loyalty and enables consistent sales and profit growth:
- Foster a customer-centric culture focused on delivering highly satisfying customer experiences.
- Serve on the Sales Leadership Team, responsible for total store results.
- Ensure compelling visual merchandising standards are achieved and maintained, including sell-down strategies.
- Drive brand guide planning and execution in partnership with category managers.
- Leverage tools and reports to maintain a full, diverse sales floor with all styles, colors, and sizes.
- Maintain an organized back room and efficient product flow.
- Optimize use of all non-sales space, including back room, associate areas, and off-site storage.
- Support store strategy to reduce shrinkage.
- Spend at least 50% of scheduled time on the sales floor, demonstrating excellent customer sales lead behaviors.
- Analyze customer reports and insights to create SMART action plans.
- Enhance selling behaviors to ensure a seamless customer experience.
- Monitor customer experience reports, conduct observations, and provide coaching.
- Manage payroll daily and optimize labor scheduling based on associate skills and availability.
- Resolve customer relations issues and drive customer loyalty through brand strategies.
- Partner with the Sales Leadership Team to address maintenance and housekeeping issues.
- Ensure a safe working environment and foster a culture of honesty in loss prevention.
- Build a high-performance team:
- Attract, recruit, and hire qualified team members supporting product flow and visual merchandising.
- Manage talent lifecycle of direct reports, including onboarding, development, and recognition.
- Coach and develop team members, build connectivity, and manage relations.
- Establish clear performance goals with store management and ensure proper training.
- Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- Focus on key metrics such as conversion, retention, merchandise availability, and store appearance, alongside performance evaluation criteria.
Qualifications:
- Proven ability to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.
- Strong delegation, follow-up, and communication skills.
- Excellent visual merchandising skills.
- Ability to manage complex priorities with strong organizational skills.
- Talent assessment, coaching, and performance management capabilities.
- Business acumen with strategic and analytical skills.
- Flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and non-business hours.
- Previous management experience, preferably in high-volume settings.