Store Community Lead, Atlanta

Lululemon Athletica; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 81,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading performance apparel company seeks a Store Community Lead to inspire local store teams and manage community initiatives. Responsibilities include coaching, event execution, and building relationships within the community, reflecting lululemon's commitment to wellness and inclusivity.

Benefits

Extended health and dental benefits

Paid time off

Savings and retirement plan matching

Generous employee discount

Fitness & yoga classes

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of local trends in wellness/fitness industry.
• Proficient communication skills with an aptitude for building relationships.

Responsibilities

• Coach and coordinate stores on community engagement and budget management.
• Execute local events and support the Ambassador Journey.

Skills

Communication

Relationship Building

Dynamic Workload Management

Job description

Business Unit: Store Support Centre (SSC)

Time Type: Full-time

Description & Requirements

who we are

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

about this team

The North America Community team is responsible for the creation and execution of our community strategy, inclusive of relationship management, product seeding, activations and campaign activity across the entire NA store fleet, campuses, and key cities. The broader team is comprised of the NA Events, NA Community and NA Sports marketing organizations who work in partnership with myriad cross functional partners to build meaningful local relationships, to engage our ambassadors and talent through relevant activations and to further lululemon’s commitments within diversity and inclusion.

a day in the life: what you’ll do

The Store Community Lead will coach, support, and inspire our local store teams to deliver on lululemon’s Community commitments. Additionally, lululemon’s local community success is dependent on the Store Community Lead’s ability to powerfully represent lululemon to the local market and represent the local market to lululemon.

• Coach and coordinate stores on vision and execution around all phases of Community foundational excellence including full and intentional spend of community budgets (Product Seeding, Community Engagement & Activations) and allocated community hours
• Execute events locally for relevant activations/campaigns and Strategic Initiatives on the Brand and Marketing Calendar including budget management and strategic execution
• Partner with Community Manager, Regional Manager and Store Managers to support all phases of the Ambassador Journey including selection, onboarding, engagement and offboarding to ensure regional Ambassador roster is inclusive and reflects the diversity the market
• Maintain close relationship with store teams through regular store visits, attendance at team meetings and joining Ambassador connects and classes
• Advise and partner with Regional Manager and stores when submitting to Community Initiatives Fund and Store Local Events
• Enroll store teams in: Centre for Social Impact, Brand campaigns and Cultural Awareness Days
• Collaborate with key cross-functional partners including NA Community and NA Events. Additional partners include NA Community Program Lead for New Stores and Optimizations, NA Talent Acquisition and NA Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action (IDEA)

qualifications

• A strong understanding of local trends, opportunities, and leaders across various industries, with a special attention to the local wellness/fitness industryKnowledge of lululemon brand position, aesthetic, and product
• Proficient communication skills with an aptitude for building powerful relationships and partnerships
• Comfortable tackling and prioritizing a dynamic workload
• Desire to join an upbeat, movement-loving, collaborative team

must haves

• Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
• Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
• Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take yourself too seriously.

Additional Notes
Immigration support is potentially available for this role.

Compensation and Benefits Package

lululemon’s compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and teamperformance. Thetypical hiring range for this positionis from $81,100-$106,500 USD annually ; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements.

At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. We strive to be the place where inclusive leaders come to develop and enable all to be well. Recognizing our teams for their performance and dedication, other components of our total rewards offerings include support of career development, wellbeing, and personal growth:

• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
• Paid time off
• Savings and retirement plan matching
• Parenthood top-up
• Extensive catalog of development course offerings
• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Compensation and Benefits Package lululemon’s compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and teamperformance. Thetypical hiring range for this positionis from $81,100-$106,500 USD annually ; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements. At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. We strive to be the place where inclusive leaders come to develop and enable all to be well. Recognizing our teams for their performance and dedication, other components of our total rewards offerings include support of career development, wellbeing, and personal growth:

• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
• Paid time off
• Savings and retirement plan matching
• Generous employee discount
• Fitness & yoga classes
• Parenthood top-up
• Extensive catalog of development course offerings
• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Note: The incentive programs, benefits, and perks have certain eligibility requirements. The Company reserves the right to alter these incentive programs, benefits, and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

workplace arrangement

Remote – Field Based

Field/Community-based work is necessary or important within a designated area, with relevant travel required.

Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. Lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that Lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

lululemon is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you would like someone from our team to contact you for individualized support, email us [e-mail] . In your email, please include the position title, the location of the position and the nature of your request.