Area Manager

Position title: Area Manager

Reports to: Regional Manager

[Brand Story of MINISO]

The MINISO Brand founder Jack Ye gained inspiration for MINISO while on vacation with his family in Japan in 2013. He came across several specialty stores which stocked good quality, well designed, and inexpensive products that were mostly manufactured in China. With his knowledge and experience in product development, supply chain, and the fashion industry, Jack established MINISO with its headquarters in Guangzhou, China, a brand catering to young people around the world.

MINISO s original intention was to enable the young generation to enjoy life through high-quality products and services. He wanted customers to have affordable, well-designed, quality products.

Through consumer insights gained from its international operations, MINISO evolved its definition of "extreme affordability", while proposing the concept of "interest-based consumption" for the first time in the retail industry. To meet the needs of young consumers, MINISO innovates through co-branding partnerships with popular license holders, its excellent designs, and sophisticated technology, and launches products that are visually pleasing, easy to use and fun to play with.

At the same time, as consumer behavior has shifted to include multiple touchpoints, MINISO has embraced an omni-channel strategy combining the online and offline market, providing consumers with a seamless shopping experience.

MINISO operates its global business under its brand slogan " Life is for fun ". Today, MINISO has successfully entered over 105 countries and regions and opened more than 5,500 stores around the world, covering the core business districts of world-renowned cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Dubai, Sydney, and Istanbul. MINISO will continue creating joyful and high-quality life experiences for hundreds of millions of consumers around the world.

About the Position

The Area Manager will support the Regional Operations Manager in ensuring that the stores within their region operate smoothly by actively providing the industry s best employee practices, improving customer shopping experiences, cultivating a team-driven environment and achieve financial successes, are a few key ingredients to making this role pertinent to MINISO-USA. The Area Manager s major emphasis is to recruit, hire, train, and develop a diverse and high-performance team of Store Managers (SMs) who will deliver on our company s goals and reflect our values. The Area Manager will directly manage multiple Store Managers and up to 15 retail stores within the area. The ideal candidate for this position would reside in the PA area.

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Responsibilities:

• Evaluating existing operations and developing appropriate strategies.
• Training store managers in effective sales and supervisory techniques. Creating and communicating sales targets at regular intervals.
• Monitoring sales across stores to check that quotas are met.
• Detecting, investigating, and remedying discrepancies in sales across stores, if required.
• Setting and implementing performance standards across all stores.
• Ensuring that employees observe company protocols.
• Collaborating with other Area Managers to ensure that operations are consistent across the board.
• Traveling to stores to conduct your duties on-site, as needed.
• Informing your manager of progress and pitfalls on a regular basis. Drive operating stores success through achieving KPI metrics to maintain company standards and financial results, and articulate KPI metrics to direct supervisor
• Ensure retail stores within the district are clean, well maintained, and that managers create a service culture that reflects the corporate image, values, and strategy of MINISO
• Set and monitor operational goals and priorities for all Store Managers, and work with Store Managers to resolve escalated concerns and ensure company policies and procedures are enforced
• Partner with human resources to develop the area team by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring, with emphasis on management positions.
• Recommend additional product, special pricing, promotions, and facility remodels
• Create Individual Development Plans (IDP) and operational business plans with Store Managers, and work with them to ensure that they proactively execute plans by using performance checkpoints
• Provide consistent accountability for Store Managers through training, coaching, conducting planning sessions and performance reviews. Recognize good performance and when discipline is required.
• Other tasks as assigned by management

Qualifications:

• Retail Industry knowledge, skills, and abilities
• High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor s Degree preferred
• 3-4 years of progressive management experience overseeing 10+ stores, preferably in the retail industry
• Comparable multi-unit management experience highly preferred
• Prior experience in the retail industry required
• Operations/District management experience preferred
• Consultative sales experience preferred

Physical Qualifications

• Ability to move about in retail store floors and rooms, review, revise, and create retail paperwork, and communicate with employees and customers
• Must be able to travel to different store locations in the area and as needed across the U.S. up to 100% of the time
• Ability to access and operate the company computer system to prepare documents, enter data, and read reports
• Willingness to work irregular schedules and extended hours (including holidays, weekends, and peak seasons) as needed.
• Willingness to transport merchandise and supplies to area stores if needed.
• This position description intends to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities. The order in which duties and responsibilities are listed is not significant.

Experience:

• Retail management: 2 year (Preferred)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Auburn Hills, MI: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 100% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person