Store Manager

Hot Topic; Frederick (MD); On-site; USD 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Hot Topic in Frederick, MD is seeking a Store Manager to lead the store team, drive sales, recruit top talent, and manage performance. You’ll champion exceptional customer service and pop culture engagement, acting as a retail maverick who can handle anything that comes your way.

You’ll oversee recruiting, training, scheduling, payroll, and operations while leveraging data to hit targets and deliver a compelling in-store experience.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of retail store management experience.
• Strong communication, recruiting and operations skills (payroll, reporting, scheduling, merchandising).
• Ability to manage a team and develop talent.
• Experience in fast-paced retail and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Ensure store hits sales plans and comp goals.
• Recruit, develop and retain a collaborative team.
• Lead customer engagement via social media and clienteling.
• Oversee store operations, scheduling and payroll hours.
• Monitor shrink and adapt to trends with HQ partners.
• Run sales reports and leverage data to guide strategy.
• Merchandise the store using planograms and timely promos.
• Mentor staff and provide feedback for growth.

Skills

Communication

Recruiting

Operations

Merchandising

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

At Hot Topic, we’re passionate about a few things: music, pop culture, and creating the most amazing in-store experience for our customers and employees.

We’re on the search for a Store Manager that will be at the forefront of bringing the fandom to life. You’ll lead the store in achieving store objectives with regards to hitting sales targets, recruiting, development, and performance management. You’ll be a retail maverick that can handle anything that comes your way. You’ll be a believer in developing talent and providing the best customer service in the mall. In short, you’re a superhero.

What You'll Do

• Ensure that your store achieves the sales plan and/or comp sales goals. It’s not all about the Benjamins, but then it kind of is
• Recruit, develop, and retain a super collaborative and passionate team to run your store alongside you
• You’re the leader of the band, and you love to create buzz and customer engagement through staying connected on social media, store web applications, and clienteling
• Lead an operationally sound business; you’ll bring the right balance of organizational structure, delegation & autonomy, and customer first selling practices
• Keep watch (like the Night’s Watch) on shrink/loss prevention, payroll hours, schedules, and external factors that will affect business
• Collaboratively communicate with retail leadership and HQ partners on trends & customer feedback
• Run sales reports and use data to help guide your strategy to hit sales targets
• You’ve got the keys to the kingdom, and you’re not afraid to use them! You’re willing to adapt to new technologies, communicate company policies & procedures, and control supply ownership (spending only as needed)
• Deliver the goods - you’ll merchandise the store in a compelling way, leveraging planograms as a guide, while launching all promos on time
• Every Fellowship needs a Gandalf! Ensure that you’re continually building a bench of equally talented, passionate staff through mentorship, recognition, and feedback

What You'll Need

• At least 1-2 years of retail store management experience; you’ve led teams to success and want to experience more of it. You’ll have skills to pay the bills: communication, recruiting, and operations (payroll, reporting, scheduling, merchandising)
• A high school diploma or GED equivalent. If you have a degree, even better
• Roll with the punches! Retail is a fast-changing industry and you like catching curveballs thrown your way
• Open-minded and inquisitive regarding pop culture fandoms & music trends
• The usual retail stuff (with or without reasonable accommodation): able to navigate your way around the store, merchandise product utilizing approved store equipment, and pack and unpack boxes of awesome merch that may weigh up to 50 pounds

$22 - $27.50 an hour

Please note the pay range for this position starts as listed in the job posting, but other factors such as an individual’s education, location, meeting the minimum job requirements for the role, training and experience, will determine the final salary for potential new hires.