Assistant Store Manager - Visual Merchandising

Summary:

The Assistant Store Manager position requires an individual who is:

• Sales and Customer Service oriented

• Professional, Friendly, Diplomatic, Motivated, and Proactive

• Creative, Organized and Detail Oriented

• Analytical

• Adaptable and a Multi-Tasker

• Excellent Communication Skills, especially Verbal

• Computer Literate – NetSuite software, Microsoft Excel and Word, email

• Physically Able to Move Light Furniture, Boxes, and Merchandise

Essential functions:

• Initiating and developing customer relationships; resolving customer service and inventory issues in a timely manner

• Focusing on visual merchandising, maintaining and creating displays that maximize sales revenue and profitability

• Coordinating and collaborating with Corporate team on major floor sets, ensuring full implementation within company visual standards and making adjustments as necessary

• Overseeing the daily activities of the store staff, following up on assigned duties to ensure completion

• Motivating sales staff to reach or exceed store sales goals

• Meeting company shipment processing and distribution standard of 24 hours from receipt of product to sales floor

• Managing all aspects of products from start to finish including receiving, stock organization, visual displays, tagging, signage, and sell down solutions

• Restocking product, as necessary to ensure full capacity and shelf quantities are maintained

• Analyzing product and sales to ensure optimum performance•

• Enforcing store policies with customers and employees

• Strong emphasis on operational duties –training and scheduling sales staff, data input into NetSuite, running sales and labor reports

• Maintaining merchandise displays, signage, and cleanliness, and overall store appearance

• Maintaining inventory and store supply levels

• Developing sell down strategies, planning and adjusting as necessary

• Developing and implementing plans for markdowns/promotions, coordinating and collaborating with the Store Manager and Corporate team as necessary

• Assisting with Special Events and Open House as necessary

• Processing required reporting and activities on a routine basis

• Communicating and collaborating with Corporate Staff routinely

• Monogramming merchandise on the monogram machine or by adding a vinyl

• Assisting the Store Manager as required, attending meetings, and acting in the Store Manager’s absence as necessary

Position Requirements

Required education and experience:

• HS diploma or equivalent

• 6 months to 1 year in retail management or sales leader experience required. Experience in retail soft lines, interiors, gifts, or accessories strongly preferred.

• Strong interpersonal communication skills required

• Must have working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel

Additional eligibility qualifications:

• Ability to work special events (Ten Sales, Trunck Shows, Open House, etc.)

• Frequent standing, walking and moving required

• Must have the ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 30 pounds or more

About The Royal Standard

In 1995 on an antique buying trip in England, we found a flag of the British royal family. This flag, in British terms, is known as the royal standard. We adopted this name, and our company, The Royal Standard, began. Since the founding of our company, we have tirelessly traveled throughout Europe and the world in search of inspiration to design unique accessories for you and your home. Our product mix ranges from fashion accessories to home decor and from holiday decorations to entertaining essentials for hosting the perfect gathering.

Our products offer an uncompromising combination of exceptional quality with tremendous value. Our products combine classic elements with modern touches and are designed to enhance a wardrobe, complete a room or to become the perfect gift.

The Royal Standard opened its first retail store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1998. A second and then a third store soon followed. During the years that ensued, we had numerous requests to wholesale our products. In 2009, we opened our first wholesale showroom in Atlanta. Today, we have 7 retail locations in Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama and wholesale showrooms in Dallas and Atlanta. Our products are available across the US in over 4,200 retail establishments.