Vans: Interim Store Manager - Whittwood Town Center

Overview

Vans: Interim Store Manager – Whittwood Town Center. As the Store Manager, you inspire, motivate, lead, and develop a store team. You champion business strategies, vision, and values. You maximize store profitability by controlling expenses, protecting company assets, and ensuring that store standards and processes for merchandising, operations, and community participation are well executed. You create an inclusive environment and always put our internal and external customers first.

What you will do

• You will strategically lead the team in maximizing and achieving store sales goals and monitor sales progress & results against key targets.
• Model and foster a consumer centric mindset within the store, and model selling behaviors through genuine interactions with consumers for the teams to emulate.
• Attract, recruit and hire high caliber, diverse talent, and maintain a strong succession plan within your store.
• Provide direct coaching, feedback, training and supervision of the associates.
• Demonstrate clear communication, training and coaching the team, set expectations for customer engagement, store policies and procedures as well as hiring and building a strong team.
• Manage expenses to maximize sales and profitability, lead an environment of productivity by ensuring the team has the knowledge and skills to meet store goals for sales and customer engagement.

Qualifications / Skills for Success

• 3-5+ years of related professional/retail management experience
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business; will require weekends, evenings, and holidays
• Ability to meet business goals by driving results through store teams
• Ability to coach and motivate a team to excel at sales & profit results
• Proven communication skills
• Ability to be solution oriented and flexible in a fast-paced environment
• A formal education and subsequent undergraduate/graduate degrees are nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.

Equal Employment Opportunity & Benefits

VF is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable law. VF will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities to the extent required by law. This position may be eligible for additional compensation awards including an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential. Hiring ranges and benefits are provided during the recruiting and interview process and may vary by location.