Assistant Store Manager/manager trainees

Our Company & Culture:
Hi there! Do you love fashion, clothing, and the environment? Do you like the idea of sustainable and recycled styles? Do you have experience in retail or management? Uptown Cheapskate is not your typical thrift store. We buy, sell, and trade brands from Forever 21 to luxury names like Gucci. Our store curates an excellent selection of styles for teens and young adults. We are seeking a strong management candidates who can take ownership of a store, store team, and inventory management.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and price inventory using our proprietary buying software
• Manage inventory through regular markdowns and merchandising
• Manage our team of 20-25 people along with 1-2 other assistant managers, store manager and with active owner involvement.
• Understand how to give direction with follow up, how to manage firmly but kindly, how to demonstrate good grasp of all jobs and be willing to jump in and assist sales associates where needed.
• Understand and be willing to train buyers and sales associates along with other managers as training is a huge part of the job.
• Understands this job is a sales floor job and involves very little administration work.
• Has the ability to learn the business and see priority tasks needing to be done to assure retail sales and buys continue to meet established goals.
• Able to take feedback from mentor and willing to use feedback to develop skills.
• Run our boutique with passion and drive
• All fulltime managers must be willing to step in when call outs threaten ability of the store to operate smoothly due to call outs. Must be willing to share responsibility of shift coverage with manager when needed.
• Able to help manage payroll, assure smooth flow of store operations by demonstrating, teaching and mentoring all employees on desired work efficiencies.
• Willing to communicate clearly and professionally the needs, desires, strengths, weaknesses and concerns as they apply to employees and the business functioning.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary/hourly pay
• Bonuses-quarterly
• Excellent employee discount
• Upward mobility
• Flexible scheduling
• 20 days PTO for FT employees
• Will consider health insurance for the right candidate after 90 days.

This job has been created to work in conjunction with one other store assistant manager and one store manager to keep the store operating efficiently. Prefer candidates from fast paced retail and/or restaurant environments and significant stable employment in these environments. Experience in resale buying and management is a huge plus.
All management jobs are fulltime and require open availability and weekend work. If you have experience managing a similiar concept, we really want to talk to you and would be willing to negotiate for experience.

We'd love to chat with you and see if our career opportunity would be right for you. Drop us your application and let's talk! Watch you text messages for initial contact. Please only candidates with a strong, stable history of managing large teams need apply.

This franchise is independently owned and operated by a franchisee. Your application will go directly to the franchisee, and all hiring decisions will be made by the management of this franchisee. All inquiries about employment at this franchisee should be made directly to the franchise location, and not to BaseCamp Franchising Corporate.