Store Manager, Retail & Store Manager

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At Hot Topic, we’re passionate about music, pop culture and creating the most amazing in-store experience for our customers and employees.

• Ensure that your store achieves the sales plan and/or comp sales goals.
• Recruit, develop and retain a super collaborative, passionate team to run your store alongside you.
• Lead an operationally sound business; bring the right balance of organization, delegation & autonomy, and customer‑first selling practices.
• Keep watch on shrink/loss prevention, payroll hours and schedules.
• Provide a shopping experience that will encourage customers to return.
• Provide music knowledge and information to employees and customers.
• Collaborate 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.
• Deliver the goods. Merchandise the store in a compelling way, leveraging planograms and launching all promos on time.
• Ensure that you’re continually building a bench of equally talented, passionate staff.

• At least a year of retail store management experience and skills in communication, recruiting, operations (payroll, reporting, scheduling, merchandising) and development.
• Passion for music, fashion and pop culture.
• A high school diploma or GED equivalent. If you have a degree, even better.
• Roll with the punches; retail is a fast‑changing industry.
• Inquisitiveness and an open mind regarding teen culture/music trends.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Sales and Business Development

Retail Apparel and Fashion, Manufacturing, and Retail

Traverse City, MI

$43,888.00–$46,932.00 (approx.)