Manager in Training

Maurices • Lynchburg, VA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager in Training (MIT) works with the store manager and store team 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 requires active participation in all training modules and activities while also fulfilling a managerial role on the team. The MIT is expected to be relocatable to a specific new store or a group of new and existing stores.

The MIT supports the store manager across customer service, sales, talent management, and store operations. This includes delivering fashion and product knowledge, analyzing store performance and managing schedules and payroll, hiring and developing associates, maintaining operational standards, minimizing inventory loss, and following company policies and procedures.

Requirements

• High school degree 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.
• Must commit to a specific store location or a 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 8 hours or longer as necessary.
• Ability to operate and use 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

• Business or retail merchandising degree preferred.
• Fashion industry experience 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.
• Demonstrate fashion and product knowledge, use customer service training resources, and keep customer needs central to actions and decisions.
• Analyze store performance and historical reports, adjust plans and priorities, and manage the store team’s performance against sales goals.
• 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 quality hiring decisions, develop successors and talent pools, and provide actionable positive and corrective feedback.
• Coach and develop associates using company programs, assess their strengths and weaknesses, and foster an accountable, fun, and rewarding work environment.
• Maintain an operationally sound store, minimize inventory loss, and direct effective use of store security equipment and daily sales documentation.
• Ensure execution of company direction across POS, visual, HR, and operations, use resources appropriately, and enforce and follow company policies and procedures.
• Respond appropriately to policy and procedural violations and use HR resources in accordance with company guidelines.
• Commit to a specific store location or a group of new and existing stores.

Benefits

• Choice of three medical plans, including PPO and High-Deductible plans; High-Deductible plans offer a Health Savings Account option 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 at no cost to associates.
• Access to the Wellbeing platform with Personify Health.
• Employee Assistance Program for associates and their families.
• 401(k) eligibility after 6 months of employment, with an immediately vested Safe Harbor matching contribution.
• Tuition Assistance program after 1 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.
• Monthly incentive compensation based on store performance.

What This Job Offers

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