Visual Manager - Plaza at Frotenac

ALO; United States; On-site; USD 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous employee discount

Free ALO Wellness Club membership

401K with company matching

Monthly store incentives

Clothing allowance

Free yoga classes

Job summary

ALO is seeking a Visual Manager to lead visual and product strategy across the store, ensuring the space is customer-ready at all times. You will combine planning, product knowledge and reporting with hands-on merchandising execution to drive store performance.

You will manage scheduling, coach a visual team, and partner with the General Manager to align on budgets, metrics, and quarterly business planning.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of retail or related industry leadership experience.
• Extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills.
• Agile with the ability to handle multiple tasks in a changing environment.
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) proficiency.
• Independent work ethic, time management and personal accountability.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support execution of key operational and visual processes.
• Champion strong visual standards for the salesfloor using business performance data.
• Lead strategic product presentation and merchandising with restock and stock level management.
• Plan visual floor changes through payroll and align with business needs.
• Own visual direction from planning through execution and budgeting.

Skills

Retail leadership

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Agile

Self-motivation

Time management

Guiding principles

Tools

MS Office

Job description

WHY JOIN ALO?

Mindful movement. It’s at the core of why we do what we do at ALO—it’s our calling. Because mindful movement in the studio leads to better living. It changes who yogis are off the mat, making their lives and their communities better. That’s the real meaning of studio-to-street: taking the consciousness from practice on the mat and putting it into practice in life.

OBJECTIVE

The Visual Manager is a member of the store leadership team who deals with ALO’s visual and product strategy in the store. This individual is passionate about planning, product knowledge, analyzing reporting and visual execution – all with a lens on driving efficient and effective visual merchandising. This role’s north star is pointed at ensuring that the store is customer-ready at all times.

Visual Leader

• Oversee and support execution of key operational and visual processes
• Champion strong visual standards for the salesfloor by leveraging business performance data
• Lead strategic product presentation and merchandising by ensuring product recovery, restock, destock, and making visual merchandising change in accordance with directive and with partnership of the Visual Manager
• Effectively plans Visual floor changes through payroll management and adapting visual support to the needs of the business.
• Own visual direction from planning through executing to meeting company expectations, budgets, timeline
• Utilizes reporting tools in partnership with management to identify business opportunities with product placement, outfitting, and stock levels. Makes changes as necessary

Business Leader

• Represent the business in meetings and on conference calls, in partnership with General Manager
• Review, Monitor and partner with General Manager to manage the budget, reporting and other business data; including metrics (e.g. Expenses, Sell-Thru) and inform planning processes (e.g., quarterly business review and sales planning)
• Future planning workflow business needs to protect optimal performance

People Leader

• Ensure that the Visual team exudes ALO's mission and guiding principles to effectively communicate to our visitors who we are, what we do and why we do what we do
• Leads a team through accountability, continuous coaching on a regular basis, development of talent, and elevating effective communication throughout the Operations and Visual team
• Establish internal & external pipeline through succession planning and recruitment strategy
• Writes an effective schedule that prioritizes the best business strategy, in partnership with the General Manager

Flow Experience Leader

• Oversees the execution of deliverables on sales floor, achieving KPI’s, while protecting operational efficiency and visual sets
• Collaborates and implements General/Store Manager’s vision and work cross-functionally with business partners, as directed, to support organizational goals and to achieve visual and sales floor KPI’s
• Demonstrate an ability to navigate the organization with a balance of business need and brand culture

VISUAL MANAGER QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of retail or related industry leadership experience
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Agile with the ability to handle multiple tasks in a changing environment
• Independent work ethic, time management skills, and personal accountability
• Aligns with and embodies ALO’s Guiding Principles
• Requires constant movement in and around all areas of store
• Ability to lift, push, carry or otherwise move up to 50 pounds
• Ability to lift, bend, kneel, climb, crawl and/or twist, and safely climb up/down a ladder
• Ability to stand and move for an entire shift

VISUAL MANAGER SCHEDULE

The Visual Manager role is a full-time role. To build a balanced schedule that supports the needs of the business and our teams, we expect all full-time employees to be available for opening, closing and weekend shifts, which may be subject to change.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, ALO does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

JUST SOME OF THE PERKS

• Generous ALO employee discount and free membership to ALO Wellness Club, with access to hundreds of streaming fitness and yoga classes with top instructors
• Competitive medical, dental and vision plan options, and enhanced additional benefits such as free virtual access to mental health providers and new parent support for employees and dependents
• 401K with company matching
• Monthly Store Incentives
• Clothing Allowance
• Free yoga classes at any of our Sanctuaries (select cities)

The Company’s Visual Manager base pay ranges from $31.25- $39.43/ hr. Please also note, Visual Managers are eligible to participate in the Company’s Monthly Store Incentive bonus program, which may result in bringing the total compensation to a higher range. Further, the range listed is just one component of the Company’s total rewards package for retail employees. Other rewards may include: clothing allowance, employee discount, 401K, competitive medical, dental, and vision plans, commuter benefits, and ALO Wellness Club.

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