Store Manager, Levi’s® Mall, Schaumburg

Levi Strauss • Schaumburg, IL

23h • Onsite

About The Position

Levi Strauss & Co. is seeking a creative and leadership-oriented Store Manager to join their team. The ideal candidate will help bring fashion to the future while maintaining the integrity of the brand's heritage. Reporting to the District Manager, this role is responsible for directing retail strategies and performing store operations to achieve financial growth and sustained brand equity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (5+ years of retail work experience may be substituted for a degree)
• Minimum 3 years experience in a retail store management position managing and coaching sales associates
• Apparel experience
• Positive, helpful demeanor and a passion and interest in Levi Strauss & Co
• Ability to lift up to 40 pounds, and constant standing, walking, squatting, kneeling, bending carrying items, and reaching overhead; comfortable climbing ladders.

Responsibilities

• Guide profitable sales and meet store financial plans by making decisions and leading the store team to accomplish performance goals (Conversion, Units Per Transaction and Sales Per Hour).
• Recruit, hire, manage pay, and make termination decisions for all store personnel, including store management. Manage employee relations issues, including performance management, and ensure associates follow LS&CO Operational Excellence policies and procedures.
• Manage the training process for new hires on LS&CO culture, product knowledge, selling practices, and other associate responsibilities, holding all employees accountable to individual sales goals.
• Coach staff to increase their knowledge, providing opportunities for continued development and creating succession plans for developing associates for promotion.
• Achieve payroll plan through managing store schedules, monitoring labor costs, and adapting to business conditions based on weekly and monthly sales. Plan payroll/scheduling based on store traffic to ensure the store is staffed to assist customers.
• Ensure sound inventory management through an accurate receiving and sending merchandise process, completing all required business directives such as price change and ticketing procedures. Prevent loss by educating associates, monitoring daily store activity, ensuring company policies are followed, and partnering with Loss Prevention and Merchandising.
• Perform store visual standards following visual merchandising direction, accomplishing product presentation. Make decisions about and adaptations to visual merchandising direction based on the layout and needs of the store. Ensure product is displayed in a manner that tells a story through styling and propping and is compelling to the customer.
• Maintain appropriate levels of product on the sales floor by planning and directing floor replenishment.
• Create a compelling store experience for customers by engaging and modeling appropriate customer service behaviors to associates.

Benefits

• 401K match: $1.25 for every $1.00 you contribute up to the first 6% of pay you save.
• Five hours of paid volunteer time per month with nonprofit organizations
• Product discount of 60% off regular-price merchandise
• 3 weeks of paid time off for the first year, growing to 4+ weeks thereafter.
• Immediate medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Free Medical Premiums w/Live.
• Paid volunteer hours & charity donation matching up to $2000/year.
• 50% employee discount.
• 125% match on your 401k, up to 6%!
• Explore advanced opportunities at Levi's, Dockers & Beyond Yoga.
• Competitive pay
• Incentive plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Health care benefits for eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager