Manager, Customer Experience

Saks • Palm Desert, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As the Customer Experience Manager, you’ll enable relationship selling and client retention and activation strategies in partnership with your store team. You’ll strengthen the brand by leading all branding and marketing activities at the store level including event planning and community engagement. You will work on-site, at your assigned store, and you will report to the store General Manager.

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant experience
• History of building, leading, motivating, and coaching teams
• Ability to synthesize data to determine relevant actions
• Experience presenting at the executive level
• Proficiency with necessary tools including but not limited to social media, google suite, Tableau, and CONNECT
• Experience with InDesign

Nice To Haves

• Develop community relationships with philanthropic organizations, social groups, and corporate partnerships

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed action plans for events applicable to stores and manage execution in partnership with Selling Managers, Group Managers, Corporate Special Events, Client Development, and Senior Store Leadership
• Manage the scheduling, budgeting, internal and external communications, planning, production, breakdown, wrap up, and reporting of each event
• Plan seasonal events calendar across Market / Metroplex in collaboration with Corporate Brand Experience, Merchants, Communications, Marketing, Creative, and brand partners
• Partner with Regional Director to create seasonal strategies to support business
• Generate excitement around the Brand by creating inviting and compelling activations and events; balance this with a commercial mindset to help events generate both short- and long-term ROIs with clear selling goals and appropriate Associate follow up
• Cultivates relationships with all client segments within the store/market
• Engage directly with clients, as appropriate, in support of client development efforts
• Monitors Client Relationship KPIs (e.g., trips frequency, spending tier migration, engagement/building relationships) for new and existing MVC customers
• Drives all Client Relationship-specific initiatives in Store or Market in partnership with GM and Store Leadership team
• Identify opportunities to deepen relationships with top clients for Private Client Relations (PCR) programs and experiences
• Serve as a strategic business partner to the General Manager and DSEs owning overall store MVC health, working collaboratively to achieve and exceed MVC & store targets.
• Surfaces Top Client Liabilities to GM and develops strategy to anniversary large ticket sales from LY in partnership with key associates and store leaders.
• Monitor and analyze weekly store and divisional customer performance (sales, count, trips, $/Customer) and inform real-time strategy adjustments.
• Oversight and ownership of client relationship initiative results and execution

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• basic life insurance
• supplemental life insurance
• disability insurance
• a variety of additional voluntary benefits (such as critical illness, hospital and accident insurance)

What This Job Offers

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