Ralph Lauren Stores - Assistant Manager

Ralph Lauren Retail • Aspen, CO

421d • $48,000 - $67,500

About The Position

The Assistant Manager at Ralph Lauren is responsible for ensuring a memorable customer shopping experience while driving sales and profitability in the store. This role involves supervising staff, meeting sales goals, and maintaining a welcoming environment that fosters customer loyalty. The Assistant Manager will also be involved in visual merchandising, loss prevention, and staff recruitment and development.

Requirements

• College Degree or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of Retail Management Experience, preferably within the luxury retail market.
• Ability to build and maintain an environment projecting high taste and sophistication consistent with Polo's lifestyle philosophy.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for sales and profit performance in assigned store or department.
• Ensure that sales and margin goals are met and monitor performance with the General Manager/Department Manager.
• Establish individual sales goals for associates and supervise sales staff to maximize performance.
• Maintain a welcoming environment that generates customer traffic and builds loyalty by exceeding customer expectations.
• Coach and mentor staff to implement initiatives that support exceptional customer service standards.
• Provide continual feedback to Buyers and Planners to identify high sales and profit potential items.
• Execute visual presentation initiatives that support merchandise presentation and maintain the desired store image.
• Achieve store shrinkage goals and implement loss prevention procedures.
• Recruit, supervise, and develop staff, creating programs to motivate personnel to build sales and transaction volume.
• Work with Senior Management to execute promotional strategies that support sales and marketing objectives.

Benefits

• Robust benefits package
• Above-market time off
• Flexible working arrangements
• Incentive compensation
• Varied learning opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree