H&M Store Manager - Hill Country Galleria TX

About the Role
As a Store Manager, you’ll be responsible for the total holistic omni customer experience in your store, ensuring high visual and commercial curation & standards according to the store format location and global & regional strategies. You have the responsibility of leading the full store team to excel. You create an inclusive culture that promotes collaboration and entrepreneurial spirit and are responsible & aware of the store’s strengths, opportunities, and competitors. You’ll also be the person who analyzes and follows up on sales, creating plans to optimize results and profits.

A Day in the Life
Working at H&M means no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will include the following responsibilities*

Customer Sales & Profit

• Responsible for the total OMNI customer experience in your store, ensuring visual and commercial curation according to your store format environment, global guidelines and regional strategies
• Represent yourself and the H&M brand positively during all customer interactions
• Establish, analyze, and follow up on sales & budget goals, and create plans to optimize results
• Ensure personal customer service is provided in all areas of the store, ensuring your team initiates customer interactions, guiding customers through fashion stories and works towards actively selling our products
• Following up that your teams are actively promoting our Customer Loyalty App (Hello Member) & in-store sustainability initiatives
• Schedule to budgeted hours plan in line with sales budget and commercial activities
• Ensure correct routines in fitting room and checkout, including transaction, returns and exchanges
• Be aware of your store strengths and opportunities, identifying commercial opportunities and acting on them. Maintain competitor awareness & knowledge
• Manage store maintenance in a cost-efficient way
• Ensure all admin routines for both people and operations are handled in a correct way

Fashion & Trend Awareness

• Keep up to date with fashion scene, trends, tendencies, styles, brands, products, competitors, and relevant influencers, etc
• Ensure your team provides product and fashion knowledge as well as other relevant information during customer interactions
• Ensure good understanding of the local area of your store, customers, competition, and fashion trends

Team & Development

• Responsible for talent and performance management in your store – recruiting, onboarding, upskilling, and developing your team
• Complete performance evaluations and succession planning to support business needs & team
• Retain and share your knowledge and skills with your team
• Strong collaboration with Area team and store leadership team including VMs
• Ensure excellent communication & professionalism
• Responsible for the teams planning & scheduling
• Regular communication to store colleagues to inform, motivate and inspire – daily/weekly meetings, etc
• Ensure all procedures, routines, security, and legal requirements in all areas of the store are followed
• Participate in relevant available Onboarding & introduction processes, trainings and courses relevant for your role & future development

Retail Operations/ Visual & Commercial Execution

• Ensure a clean and tidy sales floor and back of house.
• Ensure high fashion quality, visual and commercial product presentation, with great garment care.
• Ensure good stock levels and provide input on allocation to relevant area or sales market colleagues
• Responsible for & supports with the daily opening & closing of store routines and processes
• Ensure the full garment cycle – from delivery to garment presentation – and fitting room routines are according to our standards, processes, utilizing all tools and technology provided
• Upkeep & following best practices for any in-store OMNI Services & in-store tech services/tools etc (Instore Care App, Click & Collect, Smart Store etc)
• Secure a strong balance and the maintenance of price signs in-store and throughout the sales floor/store following guidelines according to global & local strategies & sales market/regional requirements to ensure a strong and consistent price perception throughout the store
• Update & maintenance of BOH areas for all colleagues (key information, health & safety, tidiness etc)

Who You Are

• To be a successful and effective Store Manager, you’ll be a strong leader who enjoys taking responsibility for others.
• Confident in team coaching & development. You must be ambitious, an effective communicator, an analytical solution finder, capable of working with numbers & managing statistics.
• Relevant experience working in a leadership position that you can apply to your role
• Retail management and retail operations experience
• Experience collaborating closely with a team

Why You’ll Love Working at H&M

• We value diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and disability
• We pride ourselves on being a values-driven organization, guided by our 7 unique values that have been part of our success story for over 75 years
• You’ll have access to our Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs) to find community and networking opportunities among colleagues
• We are an inclusive company where you’re encouraged to be yourself at work
• You will have access to a large global talent community, where career growth and aspirations have no limits
• We believe in supporting your overall wellbeing and offer comprehensive benefits inclusive of health insurance, wellness and family support programs, company match retirement plan, paid leave programs, and paid time off, including a community day to serve your local community
• You’ll be able to express your personal style with our employee discount at H&M, & Other Stories, and COS

Compensation: expected base salary range is $69,357-$76,188annually**

EEOC Code: OFM
Pay Status: Salary, Non-Exempt (Exempt for Top Volume locations)

*This job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job and is not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, and responsibilities assigned for this job at the company’s discretion.
**H&M, in good faith, has assessed this posted range of compensation as the accurate range for this role and location at the time of this posting. H&M may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range depending on candidate qualifications. This range may be modified in the future.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact us at https://hm.ethicspoint.com, and use Ask a Question.

Benefits:

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

We offer: 25% Staff Discount - Medical, Pharmacy Vision and Dental Coverage – Employee Assistance Program - Vacation, Wellness, Holiday and Parental Pay – 401K – Commuter Benefits, Health and Dependent Care FSA. Plus, additional Voluntary Benefits.

Inclusion & Diversity:

H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.

Company Description:

At H&M, our purpose is to liberate fashion for the many. We want to shape a new world in Fashion. A world with one ultimate goal: to unleash your self-expression. As an H&M colleague, you’re encouraged to be yourself & more. You’ll take on new responsibilities from day one, learn skills for life, and find new ways to make your big dreams come true.

Our company is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we actively seek colleagues who share our commitment.