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Assistant Store Manager
| Company | HARMAN International |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $84750 – $124300 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Associate’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Associate degree in business, or related field or equivalent experience.
- 5-6+ years of progressive experience in merchandising, forecasting, analytics and/or business intelligence required; (consumer electronics industry strongly preferred)
- Management competence – Required experience in providing leadership to teams. Strong communication skills, teaching and coaching skills, with excellent time management skills.
- Microsoft Office skills
- Previous knowledge and experience with retail POS systems.
Responsibilities
- Assist and lead with the Management team in ensuring each team member is promoting the daily professional behavior defined by our Harman Store Customer Experience Standards.
- Support a local store sales and marketing strategy and help manage daily to achieve financial objectives linked to sales growth, profitability and cost control.
- Ensures the store is merchandised correctly to sell according to the monthly sales plan and that all promotional and marketing plans are executed as scheduled.
- Review sales results daily and take aggressive action to correct deficiencies and maximize positive sales results.
- Ability to identify performance gaps, root causes and develops and implements plans to close the gaps.
- Assist in day-to-day operations with opening and closing as well as inventory and pricing tasks.
- Lead by example, help customers and ensures that a high level of customer service is given and maintained, providing a world class Harman experience for each customer.
- Act as a liaison along with the other Store Managers to partner with existing other Harman team members as well as dealer partners to provide service and accommodate for client store visits.
- Assist and collaborate daily / monthly inventory projections, analyze and maintain forecasts. Requires close collaboration with the team.
- Contribute and participate in assisting with employee targets and annual reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strategically and operationally strong – Ability to synthesize complex information into a simple strategy and then execute and communicate against this strategy.
- Drive for Results – Able to meet and exceed goals.
- Solid planning and organization skills – Ability to manage complex projects and schedules necessary with this retail management role.
- Good communication, collaboration and Team Building Skills – Ability to effectively collaborate with people and teams from all functions within Harman.
- Demonstrated creativity and out-of-the box thinking – Constantly pushing new ideas and programs to solve logistical challenges.
- Interest in consumer electronics products/hard goods – Keen understanding of consumer wants and needs that can be effectively applied to creating cutting edge, market-winning retail sales strategies.
- Bachelor of Arts/Science Degree preferred.
