Manager in Training

Maurices • Chambersburg, PA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager in Training (MIT) works with the store manager and store teams to achieve sales goals, create a customer-focused environment, manage talent and performance, and execute visual standards. The MIT participates in a training program designed to prepare them for a Store Manager position within 3–6 months. The role is hired with the expectation that the MIT can relocate to a specific new store or a group of new and existing stores. The MIT must actively participate in all training modules and activities while also fulfilling a managerial role on the team.

The MIT supports the store manager across customer service, sales, talent management, and store operations. This includes creating fashion-focused customer experiences, analyzing store performance and setting priorities to achieve sales goals, managing payroll hours and schedules, implementing visual and promotional changes, recruiting and developing associates, providing feedback and coaching, and maintaining an operationally sound store. The MIT also helps ensure company policies and procedures are followed and uses company resources appropriately.

The role is based at Store 1502 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Work hours and days may vary according to business needs. The position involves standing, reaching, pushing, pulling, squatting, and bending for up to eight hours or longer, operating store and computerized register equipment, and handling merchandise weighing up to 50 pounds.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Supervisory experience in a customer-focused environment required.
• Proven track record of achieving and setting goals and executing company direction.
• Experience hiring, promoting, and motivating talent.
• Ability to lead by example, make sound decisions, and demonstrate professionalism.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Diligence and ability to persevere in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Commitment to a specific store location or group of new and existing stores.
• Ability to work varied hours and days as business dictates.
• Ability to reach, push, pull, stand, squat, and bend for up to eight hours or longer as necessary.
• Ability to operate all equipment necessary to run the store, including a computerized register system.
• Ability to move or handle merchandise weighing up to 50 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• A business or retail merchandising degree is preferred.
• Experience in the fashion industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participate actively in all training modules and activities while fulfilling a managerial role on the team.
• Support the store manager in achieving sales goals and maintaining a customer-focused store environment.
• Deliver fashion expertise and product knowledge to customers and lead by example in customer service.
• Analyze historical store performance, adjust plans and priorities, and manage sales goals and store team performance.
• Manage payroll hours and prepare schedules based on business needs, traffic patterns, and store activity.
• Assess visual needs and direct promotional changes to maximize sales.
• Direct the team’s use of sales-driving programs, including the associate ordering system and community outreach.
• Make hiring decisions, develop successors and talent pools, provide feedback, and coach associates.
• Use company programs to develop talent and foster an accountable, fun, and rewarding work environment.
• Maintain operational standards, minimize inventory loss, and ensure effective use of store security equipment.
• Ensure company direction is executed across POS, visual, HR, and operations, and enforce company policies and procedures.
• Respond appropriately to policy and procedural violations and use HR resources to follow company guidelines.
• Commit to a specific store location or a group of new and existing stores, with the expectation of relocation as specified.

Benefits

• Choice of three medical plans, including a PPO or high-deductible plan; high-deductible plans offer an optional Health Savings Account with an employer contribution.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care.
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity coverage.
• Voluntary life insurance for associates, spouses, and children.
• Long-term disability coverage; basic life insurance and short-term disability coverage are provided at no cost.
• Wellbeing platform with Personify Health and an Employee Assistance Program for associates and their families.
• Eligibility after six months for a 401(k) with an immediately vested Safe Harbor matching contribution.
• Tuition Assistance program after one year of employment.
• Early access to earnings through PayActiv.
• Accrued paid time off.
• Annual sick time award of 56 hours, prorated based on hire date unless otherwise required by law.
• Holiday pay for New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
• Two weeks of New Parent Leave for birth, adoption, or foster placement.
• Flexible scheduling.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED