Manager In Training

Raymour & Flanigan Furniture and Mattresses•Buffalo, NY

12d

About The Position

At Raymour & Flanigan, the Manager In Training helps oversee sales associate performance, sales, showroom operations, and financial performance while implementing individual and team goals. The role focuses on training and developing a high-performing sales team, coordinating showroom operations, and helping sales consultants set and achieve objectives. The manager coaches consultants on monthly sales goals and action plans, monitors their daily performance, and supports them during the selling process to enhance the customer shopping experience. The role also helps maintain attractive, welcoming merchandising displays, signage, and store arrangements. Additional functions may be assigned at management’s discretion. The role requires flexibility to work a retail schedule that includes nights, weekends, holidays, and special events. Physical duties include moving around the showroom over 8–12-hour periods, walking, standing or sitting for extended periods as customer needs dictate, and pushing or pulling furniture for merchandising. Raymour & Flanigan supports a drug-free and smoke-free work environment. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship. The company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate on legally protected grounds.

Requirements

Three years of leadership experience in retail management in a high-volume environment.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
Computer skills and the ability to learn new programs.
Desire to succeed in a revenue-driven atmosphere.
Proven track record of sales success in a retail environment.
Flexibility to work a retail schedule that includes nights, weekends, holidays, and special events.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Oversee sales associate performance, sales, operations, and financial performance, and implement individual and team goals.
Train and develop a high-performing sales team.
Coordinate showroom operations by establishing goals for sales consultants.
Set objectives, plan, organize, and direct sales associates to meet objectives and maximize their potential.
Coach sales consultants to set realistic monthly sales goals and develop action plans; provide advice, support, and motivation.
Monitor each consultant’s daily performance against monthly objectives.
Use effective displays, signage, and sales-floor or store arrangements to make the showroom attractive and welcoming.
Mentor, coach, and develop team members and motivate them to achieve results.
Assist sales consultants in the selling process and participate in sales to enhance the customer shopping experience.
Perform additional functions assigned at management’s discretion.