Visual Manager - South Coast Plaza

Alo Yoga; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the retail apparel and fashion industry is seeking a Visual Manager in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will be part of the store leadership team, responsible for visual merchandising and ensuring the store is customer-ready at all times. You will lead visual standards while managing a team and reporting on business metrics. Alo Yoga offers generous employee discounts, competitive benefits, and the opportunity to influence through mindful movement.

Benefits

Generous employee discount for Alo Yoga

Competitive medical, dental, and vision plan options

401K with company matching

Monthly Store Incentives

Clothing Allowance

Free yoga classes at any of our Sanctuaries

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of retail or related industry leadership experience.
• Ability to lift, push, carry 50 pounds.
• Requires constant movement in the store.

Responsibilities

• Oversee execution of key operational and visual processes.
• Lead strategic product presentation and merchandising.
• Represent the business in meetings and budget management.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Time management

Agility in task handling

Tools

MS Office

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Base pay range

$32.00/hr - $36.06/hr

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.

Role Objective:

The Visual Manager is a critical member of the store leadership team accountable for bringing Alo’s visual and product strategy to life 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. Duties require constant movement in and around the store, including the sales floor and back of house. When not actively assisting guests, this position takes initiative to perform other tasks, as needed, to keep store clean, safe, inviting and operating efficiently.

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 partnership of General/Store 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/Store 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 guests who we are, what we do and why we do what we do
• Leads a team through accountability, continuous coaching, development of talent, and elevating effective communication throughout the Operations and Visual team
• Establish internal & external pipeline through succession planning and recruitment strategy
  
  

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

To build a balanced schedule that supports the needs of the business and our teams, we expect all full-time employees to have open availability and are expected to work variable shifts including peak days and weekends. All employees without exception are expected to be able to work during the company’s Blackout period, from the week of American Thanksgiving (including Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend) through the end of the holiday season (the 1st week of January)

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 employee discount for Bella+Canvas, Alo Yoga, and free membership to Alo Moves, 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 (Full-Time Employees)
• 401K with company matching (Full-Time Employees)
• Monthly Store Incentives
• Clothing Allowance
• Free yoga classes at any of our Sanctuaries
  
  

The Company’s Visual Manager base pay ranges from $32.00 - $36.06/ 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, Talkspace, and AloMoves.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Purchasing and Supply Chain

• Industries

  Retail Apparel and Fashion

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