Romantix Retail

Area Manager

Starting Pay of $55,000. Salary commensurate with experience.
On-Demand Pay.  Gain early access to your money as you earn it.

Area Manager Requirements

As Area manager you are in charge of multiple stores across multiple states. Area manager enforces the operational practices of all stores in the area. Make sure each location runs smooth, clean, and meets budget / sales goals.

Prefer to hire employees with a bachelor's degree or other formal education in a business-related field. However, actual experience in retail management and sales may substitute for formal education or training.

Compensation:

• Salary commensurate with experience.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability
• 401K with Company Match
• Quarterly Bonus Opportunity
• Member of ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Program)

Key skills for Area managers

Leadership Skills: Area managers have to keep their employees motivated, resolve conflicts and make hard decisions. A successful regional manager is a good leader.

Time Management: Area managers work with multiple stores and managers across a large region, driving many miles to coordinate in-store visits and reviews. District managers might have to create schedules, order supplies and write reports. Time management is essential to make sure everything gets done.

Math and Budgeting: Area managers are expected to keep and maintain a budget for the region, and make sure local stores are staying on budget as well. Confidence in using math skills to make sure you know where your company's money is going.

Analytical Skills: Area managers are in charge of hiring new store managers, and being a good judge of character will help ensure that the right people are being hired. Analytical skills are needed to solve problems that may come up during a typical work day.

Decision-Making Skills: The buck stops with you. Whether it is dealing with employees, management or vendors, area managers will have to make decisions that affect the company. Having the ability to make hard and fast decisions is crucial to success.

Speaking and Writing: Area managers do a lot of communicating. This might be in front of a group of employees, or in a meeting with management. Area managers might be called upon to write reports, recommendations, or reprimands. Great verbal communications and writing skills will help in any of these scenarios.

Area Manager Job Duties:

• Manage 8 Retail locations in OK / TX Region.
• Drive Sales, Profitability and Gross Margin Growth
• Responsible to drive area sales and profit plans to budget through successful leadership, organizational plans, customer service training, and outstanding execution of all field operations strategies, consistently across all stores.
• Know and manage the business by effectively using sales reports, assessing departmental results, and developing specific actions directly related to business development and growth, consistently across all stores.
• Lead and direct the development of department level sales goals and action plans for store teams directly tied into measurable results and timely and consistent execution.
• Know our customer by interacting with the customer on the sales floor and observing shopping behaviors, and associate/customer experience.
• Responsible to ensure that all associates are current and up to date with product knowledge, product use, and related product market through a commitment to formalized training and development within prescribed time lines and standards.
• Accountable to ensure that trends of under-performance are formally addressed, with clear and documented performance improvement plans.

Merchandise Presentation

The store merchandising environment must be a point of differentiation aimed at getting a customer excited about the uniqueness of the offering, the possibilities that may exist, bringing product to life, inspiring a need, leading to the WOW factor.

Our windows must represent a great first impression with clear, creative messages related to the brand offering.

Consistently implement the company visual presentation and merchandising standards to guidance, inclusive of product presentation, sampling, signing, and lighting.

Manage Store Inventory

• Ensure that each store associate is trained and compliant with all basic inventory management/movement/receiving processes. Consistently execute quality inventory practices with receiving, restocking, transfers, and managing inventory discrepancies.
• Comply with prescribed in store/product cycle counts on a timely and accurate basis.
• Manage store receiving consistently across all store teams.

Recruitment/Hiring/Training and Retention of Top Talent

• Ensure the overall people plan of the area reflects high standards, bench and succession planning, coupled with consistent mentoring and people development.
• Manage stores to work within labor scheduling budget/models, both hours and FT/PT ratio.
• Direct a standard with store schedules that reflects a store staffing approach that meets the customer needs.
• Ensure stores have bench strength for future management needs both in existing and new store markets.
• Responsible to maintain a current career path/associate assessment overview of each store team, and the Area as an operating unit.
• Understand and administer the HR policies and procedures and ensure compliance with them, consistently between stores.

Communication

• Responsible to consistently and effectively communicate the company objectives to all store management teams through organized and scheduled conference calls and email communication.
• Establish a process to ensure that stores have accountability to expectations on a consistent and timely basis.

Physical Requirements

• Lifting/Carrying: Must be able to lift merchandise, boxes, magazines and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds
• Bending/Stooping:  Bends to drop money into the safe.  Also bends to stock, arrange, clean and count merchandise at lower levels
• Reaching/Grabbing: Reaches up to the top shelf for movies and other merchandise. 
• Uses step ladder to clean upper shelves
• Pushing/Pulling: Pushes boxes of merchandise and pulls them to the counter
• Standing/Sitting: Stands behind the counter for extended periods of time
• Vision/Hearing/Speech: Must be able to read company information, labeling on merchandise, memos, safety information, etc.  Must have adequate hearing to converse with customers, answer the phone, etc.  Must be able to speak the English language in an understandable manner.

For applicants and /or employees who request a reasonable accommodation in this job, the company is able to adjust the following responsibilities:

• physical requirements involving limitations of weight
• on a limited basis, adjustments for standing
• for a limited time, number of hours scheduled to work

Romantix, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination and harassment against employees, applicants for employment, individuals providing services in the workplace pursuant to a contract, unpaid interns and volunteers based on their actual or perceived: race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex and gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity and gender expression (including transgender individuals who are transitioning, have transitioned, or are perceived to be transitioning to the gender with which they identify), age (40 and over), sexual orientation, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status and any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law (collectively referred to as "protected characteristics").

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