NYC Flagship Store, 5th Ave - Assistant Store Manager

Citizen Watch Company Of America, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 27,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Citizen Watch America is seeking an Assistant Store Manager in New York to support the General Manager in driving store productivity and top-line sales. You will help analyze daily, weekly, and monthly sales and develop action plans to boost performance, while ensuring excellent customer service and brand presentation.

You will also recruit, train, and develop staff, manage payroll budgets, and maintain accuracy in operations and visual merchandising.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma and three years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Retail jewelry and watch experience highly desirable.
• Flexible with work schedule including days, evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Achieve store’s sales and profit budgets through motivation and control.
• Develop a selling culture in the store and model exemplary customer service.
• Support General Manager with payroll budgeting and staffing.
• Assist in recruiting, training and retaining store staff.
• Monitor weekly schedule for optimal talent, payroll and coverage.

Skills

Customer service

Sales

Team leadership

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

NYC Flagship Store, 5th Ave - Assistant Store Manager

Regular Full-Time New York, NY, US

30+ days ago

Citizen Watch Americarepresents the sales and marketing for the Citizen Group within the U.S., Caribbean and Latin American markets. The brands included within Citizen Watch America are Citizen, Bulova, Frederique Constant and Alpina. Each individual brand builds upon their very distinctive identities in the market with their unique, differentiated advertising, marketing and brand campaigns. As a combined company, however, the brands can assist each other and leverage the power that a larger unified entity brings.

Our vision is to lead the affordable luxury watch market by offering the most compelling collection of brands and products that are loved, favored, and respected by citizens of the world.

We will continue to leverage our heritage and expertise to enrich the lives of our current and future customers and Employees through unparalleled excellence in creativity, design, craftsmanship, innovation, technology, value, and service.

Summary

The Assistant Store Manager assists the General Manager in motivating and inspiring their team to achieve store productivity goals. They help the General Manager to analyze daily, weekly, and monthly sales. Assists in developing action plans to drive top line sales. Other responsibilities include; managing payroll budgets to ensure store’s goals are on target, ensuring the individual and collective skills of the team are utilized effectively, and both the staff and customer experience is positive. Assists General Manager in recruiting, hiring, training and development of the store team. Effectively manages store operations, ensuring consistency and compliance. The Assistant Store Manager is a brand ambassador. Targets include top line sales, bottom line profits, staff training, development, retention and motivation, increasing traffic counts and brand building through visual merchandising and presentation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Achieve the store’s sales and profit budgets through consistent sales motivation and expense control.
• Develop a selling culture in the store.
• Model exemplary selling techniques and customer service.
• Support the Store or General Manager in achieving the store’s payroll budget goals through effective staffing and sales productivity.
• Assist in recruiting, training, supervising, and retaining store staff.
• Monitor weekly schedule maximizing talent, payroll and store coverage.
• Assist in the training of store associates in all aspects of their job responsibilities including customer service, clientele, company history, product knowledge, visual merchandising and basic store operations.
• Motivate team to encourage positive work environment fostering friendly and service-oriented atmosphere.
• Maintain adequate sales floor coverage.
• Track and ensure that KPI metrics are clearly communicated and achieved.
• Ensure that sales associates are developing and maintaining long-term clients through the effective use of customer service, client books, and store and community events.
• Ensure that all product presentation is maintained to company standards.
• Ensure that product transfers, receiving, customer repairs are accounted for with accuracy.
• Ensure that all visual and merchandising directives are implemented according to company standards.
• Analyze product sales performance and inventory needs and communicate to supervisor and retail team.
• Maintain store safety and abide by local, state, and government regulations.
• Supervise the enforcement of company cash handling, loss prevention, store funds and deposit procedures.
• Ensure all administrative responsibilities are completed promptly and accurately.
• Identify and discuss operational issues and concerns with management.
• Maintain efficient and organized office filing and in-store communication system.
• Regularly utilize store inventory audits to ensure consistent inventory control.
• Maintain a consistently clean and well-maintained sales floor and stock room.
• Utilize maintenance and visual merchandise checklists regularly to ensure store standards are consistently being met.
• Prepare and send nightly business recap.
• Maintain responsibility of the store and all its parts when the General Manager is not in the store.

Qualifications

• Flexible with work schedule to work days, evenings, weekends, per the needs of the business.
• High School Diploma and three years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Retail jewelry and watch experience highly desirable.

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Pay: $24.00/hr plus Commission and Bonus Potential