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Assistant Manager - 2nd

Rack Room Shoes • Morrisville, NC 27560 • Posted 4 days ago

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The Assistant Manager at Rack Room Shoes assists the Store Manager in managing all day-to-day store operations, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures. This role involves providing leadership, guidance, and training to store staff, assuming total responsibility in the absence of the Store Manager, and striving to meet and exceed sales, service, and operational objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the safety and welfare of employees and customers.
  • Create and maintain an excellent customer shopping experience.
  • Maintain and reinforce current service level standards.
  • Provide service training and leadership to staff members.
  • Manage customer issues with urgency and to customer satisfaction.
  • Conduct all POS terminal transactions in accordance with policy.
  • Manage sales, discounts, refunds, loyalty programs, and inventory control.
  • Maintain sales floor merchandising and visual presentation.
  • Manage inventory control, including shipping, receiving, price management, and physical inventory.
  • Manage payroll control, including scheduling and compliance with payroll budget.
  • Provide training and development for direct reports.
  • Ensure adherence to Loss Prevention policies and procedures.
  • Work towards understanding and managing all day-to-day operations.

Qualifications

Required

  • An approved background check
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills
  • Managerial and organizational skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills for customer and employee interactions
  • Strong visual merchandising skills
  • Working knowledge of footwear, accessories, and shoe care
  • Basic mathematical skills
  • Knowledge of Corporate and Store Operations policies and procedures

Full Job Description

26569

Full Time

Rack Room Shoes

Job Description Summary
The Assistant Manager assists the Store manager in managing all day to day store operations, while ensuring that compliance exists with all established company policies and procedures. Provides leadership, guidance and training to the store staff via direction from the Store Manager. In the absence of the Store Manager, the Assistant Store Manager will assume total responsibility for all store operations. Consistently strives to meet and exceed all established sales, service and operational objectives.

Duties and Responsibility
  • Primary responsibility is the safety and welfare of employees and customers.
  • Create, establish and maintain an excellent customer shopping experience.
    Maintain and reinforce current service level standards.
    Provide service training and leadership to staff members.
    Manage customer issues with a sense of urgency and to the satisfaction of our customer.
  • All POS terminal transactions in accordance with policy and procedure
    Sales, Discounts and Refunds
    Loyalty
    Open/Closing procedures
  • Inventory Control responsibilities to include adherence to all policies and procedures in regards to:
    Shipping and Receiving
    Price Management (Price Changes, Markdowns etc.)
    Singles
    Damaged Merchandise
    Conducting a Physical Inventory
  • Sales Floor Merchandising and Visual Presentation responsibilities to include adherence to company standards:
    Merchandise Placement
    Sales floor maintenance and housekeeping
    Promotional event directions, materials and signage
  • Payroll Control responsibilities to include adherence to all policies and procedures in regards to:
    Scheduling
    Payroll budget compliance
    Time and Attendance
  • Training and Development of direct reports, responsibilities to include adherence to all policies and procedures in regards to:
    Utilization of all available training tools
    Consistent reinforcement of operational standards
  • Loss Prevention responsibilities to include adherence to all policies and procedures in regards to the protection and control of all Company assets.
  • Work towards a complete understanding of managing all day to day operations.

Principal Working Relationships

Customers, Sales Associates, Store Management, District/Regional Managers, Store Operations and Training Personnel.

Key Qualifications

An approved background check
Effective verbal and written communication skills
Managerial and organizational skills
Strong interpersonal skills necessary for customer and employee interactions
Strong visual merchandising skills
Working knowledge of footwear, accessories and shoe care.
Basic mathematical skills
Knowledge of Corporate and Store Operations policies and procedures
A complete understanding of the standards of Store Presentation and strong visual merchandising skills.

Store Number: 618

Rack Room Shoes 618

Pay Range:

Park West Village

3017 Market Center Drive

About Rack Room Shoes

Great shoes for men, women and children in comfort, dress, casual, and athletic categories make Rack Room Shoes the family footwear retailer of choice. The company offers a wide selection of nationally recognized brands known for their quality. Rack Room Shoes also offers an assortment of exclusive private brands commissioned from the best manufacturers in the business. Our private brands offer customers great styles and outstanding values, which translates into satisfied, loyal, repeat customers.

Morrisville, North Carolina US

Rack Room Shoes provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, military service, or any other characteristic that is protected by applicable law. This policy of equal employment opportunity extends to all aspects of employment including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, reassignment, demotion, discipline, discharge, performance evaluation, compensation and benefits.