Retail Fashion Manager - Talbot Green Extra

Retail Fashion Manager - Talbot Green Extra

About the role

As F&F retail fashion manager, you will ideally have fashion experience including visual merchandising, customer service and team management skills. You will have an eye for detail ensuring your department is upholding to the highest operational standards for our customers. You will be familiar with the fast-paced environment of clothing retail and can deliver results under pressure.

Coach your team to be passionate and knowledgeable about the products in your store, building its brand and providing customers with the right range, quality and service to ensure they keep coming back

Lead your team in the driving of trade activity and use your expertise and knowledge to grow sales and maximise profit

The safety of your colleagues is your top priority, and you ensure your store is always trading legally by coaching the team to use all security tools available to provide a safer place to work Manage colleague schedules on F&F clothing department ensuring the right people are in the right place accordance to our F&F operating model and trade plan, within agreed hours

Oversee the end-to-end F&F clothing operation, managing the stock from backdoor to shopfloor

Managing and motivating the team deliver on key metrics to support the operation including RFID routines, availability, delivery schedules and stock routines

Making sure F&F clothing department is always clean, tidy and well-presented and merchandised to the F&F clothing principles and standards

You will be an F&F brand ambassador - executing commercial strategies and maintaining store displays that consistently align with brand identity

Being the F&F brand and clothing expert and championing F&F in store, delivering the practical actions to make improvements where necessary by conducting a daily floor walk outlining the tasks to be completed for the day by the team Analysing product performance and sales data to refine visual merchandising strategies and optimise promotional initiatives ensuring profitability is maximised and sales targets are regularly reached, if not overachieved

Complete market research, analysing trends, competitor activity, and consumer behaviour (including social media and F&F online)
Have a commercial mind-set, knowing your customers and local community, to advertise and regularly change lead ins to entice customers onto the F&F department and adapt product placement to respond effectively to changing market conditions

Curate visual impactful merchandising displays and a welcoming store atmosphere in line with the visual merchandising guidelines set out in your VM guide adapting your store layouts to reflect local customer profile

Building strong relationships with your team (including colleagues who work on F&F clothing overnight), the wider store team and your home and clothing area manager, including providing feedback and sharing future opportunities

You will need

You will need to be:

You are a great communicator who will share knowledge, experience and best practices, you understand the importance of what you do and work collaboratively with your team to deliver results

You are natural and welcoming with customers, putting them at the heart of whatever you. You take the time to listen and understand others, building strong relationships with your colleagues and customers

You use your energy and resilience to keep momentum going when working in challenging environments. You own the decision making for the store, and can act quickly, making decisions based on what is right for customers and colleagues

You have energy and drive to deliver beyond expectation. You do the right thing whether everything is going well or times are tough, and know how to consistently be at your best, you inspire confidence in those around youYou are aware of what our competitors are doing, with a well-developed commercial mindset and you are always looking for ways to build and deliver new initiatives to help improve our store for customers

Clothing experience essential

Impeccable visual merchandising standards

Attention to detail and a creative flair

Well-developed commercial mindset

Effective leadership with the ability to motivate others

Results driven and sales oriented

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