Department Manager

Shoppers Stop; Goa; On-site; INR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Shoppers Stop is seeking a Department Manager in Goa to lead customer care associates, manage inventory and drive VM-driven sales. The role requires a graduate degree or MBA/PGDBM with at least 1 year of managerial experience and a focus on delivering value through service excellence.

You will ensure display compliance, coordinate stock movements, and develop processes to capture and respond to customer feedback, aiming for moments of magic in every shopping experience.

Qualifications

• Graduate/MBA/PGDBM required.
• Minimum 1 year of managerial experience.
• Strong customer-care and service orientation required.

Responsibilities

• Achieve budgeted plan through action-oriented tactics.
• Map competition data and maintain updated resources and databases.
• Manage inventory movement from receiving to floor and plan stock turns.
• Guide customers to value-added services (gift-wrapping, alterations, exchanges).
• Set up mechanisms to record and act on customer feedback and complaints within 72 hours.
• Forecast manpower and schedule CCA availability to match entry patterns.
• Translate VM plan into local floor execution and display plans.
• Arrange stock in space per plan and communicate display principles to supervisors.
• Analyze data, generate reports, identify causes and propose solutions.
• Identify pilferage patterns and implement shrinkage controls.

Skills

Leadership

Customer service

Inventory management

Floor merchandising

People management

Education

Graduate/MBA/PGDBM

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role: Department Manager

Reporting To: Unit Head

People Reporting To DM: Customer Care Associates

Qualification: Graduate/MBA/PGDBM

Experience: Min.1 year Managerial experience

Key Deliverables

Achievement of Budgeted Plan

• Works out action plans/tactics to match requirement

Competition mapping

• Identifies parameters to track competition
• Builds resources and databases of information on an ongoing basis by networking
• Creates an index and updates it

Inventory Management

• Does process mapping for movement of stocks from receiving bay to floor
• Initiates stock-takes as per the agreed and laid down procedure
• Ensures effective displays with the objective of achieving greater number of stock turns
• Plans for perpetual inventory

Customer care/customer service

• Ensures customers are guided to enable them to avail of value added services like gift-wrapping, alterations, exchanges & other conveniences
• Sets up processes/initiates plans to build for moments of magic, avoid customer complaints & grievances

Customer feedback

• Sets up mechanism for recording of verbal complaints / suggestions
• Ensures collation of data on customer complaints / suggestions and circulates it to relevant people
• Ensures in service recovery within agreed time-line (72 hours)
• Ensures customers queries are addressed and complaints / grievances are resolved (I.e. moments of misery are converted into moments of magic)

Manpower availability

• Anticipates shifts in customer entry pattern and directs supervisors to schedule CCA availability accordingly

Floor presentation

• Understands the Visual Merchandising plan and customer buying process and translates the VM plan to match local needs and as per stock availability
• Communicates the above to supervisors

Arrangement of stock in space allocated as per plan

• Creates display plan of merchandise for his sections on the basis of underlying principles
• Communicates the display plan and the underlying principles to the supervisors for the purpose of execution

Analysis and reporting

• Analyzes available data, identifies causes and suggests solutions
• Identifies all reports that need to be generated with frequency, schedules and identifies sources of information
• Ensures compliance

Shrinkage control

• Identifies most pilfered products and common methods of pilferage