Manager in Training

maurices; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) after 6 months

Paid time off

Job summary

maurices is seeking a Manager in Training (MIT) in Omaha, NE, to partner with the Store Manager and teams to drive sales, deliver a customer-focused environment, and execute visual standards. The MIT will participate in a structured training program with relocation flexibility to a new or multiple stores and assume a managerial role upon completion of training.

The role emphasizes leadership, hiring, coaching, and ensuring store performance while adhering to company policies and procedures in a

Qualifications

• High School Degree or GED required; a business or retail merchandising degree preferred.
• Supervisory experience in a customer-focused environment; experience in fashion preferred.
• Proven track record of achieving and setting goals and executing company direction.
• Experience in hiring, promoting, and motivating talent.
• Proven ability to lead by example, make sound decisions, and demonstrate professionalism.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Customer Obsession: Drive and achieve a customer-focused store environment; demonstrate fashion knowledge to customers.
• Drive Sales: Analyze store performance, adjust plans, manage payroll hours, direct promotional changes, and schedule staff.
• Talent Management: Hire, coach, and develop talent; build succession pools and provide actionable feedback.
• Operational Execution: Maintain an operational store, minimize inventory loss, implement company direction (POS, Visual, HR, Operations).

Skills

Leadership

Talent management

Team coaching

Customer focus

Decision making

Interpersonal skills

Education

High School / GED

Retail merchandising degree

Job description

Brand Overview

At maurices, we’re all about feel‑good fashion for real life. We’re committed to our service with style promise and to offering affordable fashion that takes women from workday to weekend—and all of life’s adventures in between. With inclusive sizing from 0–24, maurices is known for versatile styles across key categories like denim, dresses, tops, and more.

We’ve been doing this since 1931, and today you’ll find us in over 800 communities across North America and online at maurices.com. At maurices, it’s more than clothes – it’s where fun, friendship and fashion come together!

Position Overview

The Manager in Training (MIT) works with the store manager and store teams to achieve sales goals, drive a customer‑focused environment, manage talent and performance, and execute visual standards. The MIT participates in a training program to prepare them for a store manager position within 3–6 months. The MIT is hired with the expectation that they are relocatable to a specific new store or a group of new and existing stores and must actively participate in all training modules while fulfilling a managerial role on the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Obsession: Drive and achieve a customer‑focused store environment; create and demonstrate fashion‑focused store environments by delivering product knowledge and fashion expertise to customers.
• Drive Sales: Manage sales goals by analyzing store performance, adjust plans and priorities as necessary; manage payroll hours to support business needs and sustain profitability; assess visual needs and direct implementation of promotional changes; prepare schedules based on business needs; direct team to use sales‑driving programs.
• Talent Management: Make quality hiring decisions and nurture talent; provide direct, actionable feedback; develop successors and talent pools for all store positions; coach associates; create an environment that allows others to reach their full potential.
• Operational Execution: Maintain an operationally sound store; minimize inventory loss; ensure execution of company direction (POS, Visual, HR, Operations); enforce company policies and procedures.

Requirements

• High School Degree or GED required; a business or retail merchandising degree preferred.
• Supervisory experience required in a customer‑focused environment; experience in the fashion industry preferred.
• Proven track record of achieving and setting goals and executing company direction.
• Experience in hiring, promoting, and motivating talent.
• Proven ability to lead by example, make sound decisions, and demonstrate professionalism.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship‑building skills.
• Diligence and the ability to persevere in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Must commit to a specific store location or a group of new and existing stores.

Unique / Physical Requirements

• Work varied hours and days as business dictates.
• Able to reach, push, pull, stand, squat, and bend for up to 8 hours or longer as necessary.
• Able to operate and use all equipment necessary to run the store.
• Able to operate a computerized register system.
• Able to move or handle merchandise throughout the store weighing up to 50 pounds.

Location

Store 2139-Village Pointe‑maurices-Omaha, NE 68118

Position Type

Regular/Full time

Benefits Overview

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial security, and work‑life balance. Full‑time associates are eligible for a suite of benefits, including medical plans, dental and vision coverage, flexible spending accounts, accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity coverage, voluntary life, spouse and child life insurance, long‑term disability coverage, basic life and short‑term disability coverage, a wellbeing platform, employee assistance program, 401(k) after 6 months, tuition assistance after 1 year, PayActiv, paid time off, sick time, holiday pay, and new parent leave.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all employment decisions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business. The Company welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the application process.