Vans: Assistant Store Manager - Norwalk

VF Corporation • Norwalk, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As the Assistant Store Manager, you will provide leadership and direction to the store team, executing the company’s vision and values under the guidance of the Store Manager. Your role involves maximizing store profitability by achieving sales goals and ensuring that store standards and processes for merchandising, operations, staffing, and community engagement are well executed. You will assume responsibility for the store in the Store Manager’s absence when needed, and are expected to create an inclusive environment, prioritizing both internal and external customers. Vans, founded in 1966, is an original action sports footwear company rooted in authenticity and creativity, impacting its community through action sports, music, art, and street culture. The company's mission is to empower everyone to use creativity to discover themselves, aiming to create a world where anyone can be their unique self. Vans operates with five core values: HEART (Van Doren Spirit), CURIOUS, UNAPOLOGETICALLY AUTHENTIC, INGENUITY, and a passion for local COMMUNITIES. The company fosters an inclusive culture, celebrating individuality and equal opportunities, and is committed to empowering creative exploration and inspiring youth culture.

Requirements

• 3+ years of related professional/retail management experience
• Ability to meet business goals by driving results through store teams
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business; will require weekends, evenings, and holidays
• Ability to coach and motivate a team to excel at sales and profit results
• Proven communication skills, both written and verbal
• Solution oriented
• Ability to be flexible in a fast paced-environment

Nice To Haves

• A formal education and subsequent undergraduate/graduate degrees

Responsibilities

• Maximize store sales, achieve store sales goals and monitor sales progress & results against key targets.
• Inspire and model a consumer centric mindset by exemplifying selling behaviors through genuine interactions with customers for the teams to emulate.
• Support the Store Manager with networking, attracting, recruiting, and interviewing high caliber talent.
• Provide direct coaching, feedback, training and supervision of the associates, ensuring that all company policies and procedures are followed and in compliance.
• Demonstrate clear communication, training, and coaching to assist in setting expectations on customer engagement, store policies and procedures as well as fostering a strong team.
• Assist in managing expenses to maximize sales and profitability.
• Cultivate an environment of productivity by ensuring the store team has the knowledge and skills to meet store goals for sales and customer engagement.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits that encourage mental, physical and financial well-being for all VF associates.
• Additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential.
• Medical plan rates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed