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American Eagle Outfitters Inc. · 6 hours ago

Offline - Merchandising Team Leader (Assistant Manager)

Simpsonville, KY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

American Eagle Outfitters Inc. is seeking a full-time Merchandising Team Leader who will be instrumental in developing and implementing the merchandising strategy for the store. This role involves driving sales, coaching the team, ensuring brand standards, and maintaining a guest-ready environment.

Fashion

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

You have a passion for driving sales: As a key LOD (Leader on Duty), you're an expert at driving sales by maximizing Fitting Room and Salesfloor productivity and building guest loyalty through a best-in-class guest experience. You contribute to the overall financial success of the store by analyzing reporting and daily trends to make strategic business decisions. You're the Store Team Leader's right hand in developing short and long-term business plans to drive key KPIs

You're a merchandising innovator: You coach your team to deliver an outstanding guest experience by ensuring your store is always representative of AEO Brand Standards. You ensure your store stays in tip-top shape by #leading day-to-day merchandising, sell-through adjustments and replenishment. You have a keen eye for merchandising opportunities and are always ready with a game plan to take action!

You're a people leader: You're all about motivating and inspiring your team through AEO's core values. You're a role-model leader and you always hold your team accountable to rocking AEO's customer service standards, especially on the Salesfloor and in the Fitting Room

You've got an eye for talent and a love of training: You make it a top priority to recruit and hire strong talent to ensure the store is always staffed to meet business needs. You take pride in training and developing your team to ensure they continue to provide outstanding service to the best of their abilities

You know that teamwork makes the dream work: You know that building a great team requires you to consistently provide ongoing performance feedback through real-time coaching. You make team touchbases, development plans, and performance reviews a priority and you drive associate engagement by celebrating your team's outstanding performance - #winning!

You're an operational innovator: You're a natural at executing and innovating daily operational procedures, you support the team in maintaining visual standards throughout every zone in the store, and most importantly, you ensure the Fitting Rooms are always guest-ready and rocking AEO Brand Standards

Integrity is your middle name: You ensure store safety standards are maintained, you're committed to Asset Protection standards, you always adhere to AEO's policies and procedures, and you do the right thing - always

Qualification

Retail management experienceMerchandising strategyTeam leadershipBusiness acumenTrainingDevelopmentMulti-taskingGuest serviceAttention to detailTime management

Required

As the full-time Merchandising Team Leader, you are the Store Team Leader's 'go-to' in developing and implementing the Merchandising strategy for the store

Your passion lies in training and coaching your team into great merchants delivering AEO brand Visual standards every day

Through your leadership, your team always nails floorset execution, and rocks merchandising and marketing brand standards

You ensure the store is always 'guest ready' through effective replenishment

You represent our company values and bring your REAL self to work every day

As a key LOD (Leader on Duty), you're an expert at driving sales by maximizing Fitting Room and Salesfloor productivity and building guest loyalty through a best-in-class guest experience

You contribute to the overall financial success of the store by analyzing reporting and daily trends to make strategic business decisions

You're the Store Team Leader's right hand in developing short and long-term business plans to drive key KPIs

You coach your team to deliver an outstanding guest experience by ensuring your store is always representative of AEO Brand Standards

You ensure your store stays in tip-top shape by leading day-to-day merchandising, sell-through adjustments and replenishment

You have a keen eye for merchandising opportunities and are always ready with a game plan to take action!

You're all about motivating and inspiring your team through AEO's core values

You're a role-model leader and you always hold your team accountable to rocking AEO's customer service standards, especially on the Salesfloor and in the Fitting Room

You make it a top priority to recruit and hire strong talent to ensure the store is always staffed to meet business needs

You take pride in training and developing your team to ensure they continue to provide outstanding service to the best of their abilities

You know that building a great team requires you to consistently provide ongoing performance feedback through real-time coaching

You make team touchbases, development plans, and performance reviews a priority and you drive associate engagement by celebrating your team's outstanding performance

You're a natural at executing and innovating daily operational procedures

You support the team in maintaining visual standards throughout every zone in the store

You ensure the Fitting Rooms are always guest-ready and rocking AEO Brand Standards

You ensure store safety standards are maintained

You're committed to Asset Protection standards

You always adhere to AEO's policies and procedures

You do the right thing - always

Preferred

You love AE and Aerie products!

You've led teams in a retail management role previously - #practicemakesperfect!

You can multi-task and have attention to detail; priority-setting and time management are your strong suits

You know how to lead and develop teams and have a general understanding of employment law

Business acumen? You've got it!

You have flexible availability - you're available to work when the guest shops!

Benefits

Health care benefits (including medical, vision, and dental)

Wellness benefits

401(k) retirement benefits

Life and disability insurance

Employee stock purchase program

Paid time off

Paid sick leave

Parental leave and benefits

Discretionary bonuses and other incentives

Company

American Eagle Outfitters Inc.

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AEO is a leading global specialty retailer offering high-quality, on-trend clothing, accessories and personal care products

Founded in 1977

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.aeo-inc.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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