Store Manager - Barrie, Canada - Hot Topic, Inc.
Description
At Hot Topic, we're passionate about a few things: music, pop culture, and creating the most amazing in-store experience for our customers and employees.
We're on the search for a Store Manager that will be at the forefront of bringing the fandom to life.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Ensure that your store achieves the sales plan and/or comp sales goals. It's not all about the Benjamins, but then it kind of is
- Recruit, develop, and retain a super collaborative and passionate team to run your store alongside you
- Lead an operationally sound business; you'll bring the right balance of organizational structure, delegation & autonomy, and customer first selling practices
- Keep watch (like the Night's Watch) on shrink/loss prevention, payroll hours, schedules, and external factors that will affect business
- Collaboratively communicate with retail leadership and HQ partners on trends & customer feedback
- Run sales reports and use data to help guide your strategy to hit sales targets
- You've got the keys to the kingdom, and you're not afraid to use them You're willing to adapt to new technologies, communicate company policies & procedures, and control supply ownership (spending only as needed)
- Deliver the goods you'll merchandise the store in a compelling way, leveraging planograms as a guide, while launching all promos on time
- Every Fellowship needs a Gandalf Ensure that you're continually building a bench of equally talented, passionate staff through mentorship, recognition, and feedback
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- At least 12 years of retail store management experience; you've led teams to success and want to experience more of it.
You'll have skills to pay the bills:
communication, recruiting, and operations (payroll, reporting, scheduling, merchandising)
- A high school diploma or GED equivalent. If you have a degree, even better
- Roll with the punches Retail is a fastchanging industry and you like catching curveballs thrown your way
- Openminded and inquisitive regarding pop culture fandoms & music trends
- The usual retail stuff (with or without reasonable accommodation): able to navigate your way around the store, merchandise product utilizing approved store equipment, and pack and unpack boxes of awesome merch that may weigh up to 50 pounds
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Onsite parking
- Paid time off
- Store discount
- Vision care
Day range:
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Flexible Language Requirement:
- French not required
Shift:
- 8 hour shift
- Afternoon shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Morning shift
Work setting:
- Apparel store
- Specialty store
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Barrie, ON L4M 4Z8: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- Secondary School (required)
Experience:
Store Management: 1 year (required)
Work Location:
In person
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