Market Manager - Perry Ellis

Perry Ellis International, Inc. represents a diverse portfolio of lifestyle apparel brands. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries owns and licenses nationally and with a brand portfolio of over 42 Brands domestically and internationally recognized brands including:
Perry Ellis®, Original Penguin® by Munsingwear®, Laundry by Shelli Segal®, Rafaella®, Cubavera®, Ben Hogan®, Savane®, Grand Slam®, John Henry®, Manhattan®, Axist® and Farah®. The Company enhances its roster of brands by licensing trademarks from third parties, including:
Nike® for swimwear, and Callaway®, PGA TOUR®, and Jack Nicklaus® for golf apparel.

Perry Ellis is a clothing company of Menswear designer & retail chain featuring tailored apparel, from suits to casual wear & accessories. Perry Ellis’ passion and OPTIMISM for living life to the fullest is instilled in the culture, written into its history, and sewn into every product.

The Market Manager has overall responsibility as the Store Manager of one store and has added responsibility in supervising a small group of stores within a geographic area. The Market Manager’s responsibilities include all of the responsibilities of the Store Manager position in addition to the supervision of the operations of a small group of stores. In addition, the Market Manager is to direct all activity required to achieve or exceed goals, including sales and profit objectives, customer service, human resources (as it related to development and retention of the team), payroll and operating expenses, loss prevention, and merchandise presentation.

This position requires constant travel to stores in their designated area.

Customer Experience

• Ability to function as a role model during all store visits, ensuring that customers remain the top priority; ability to respond to all customer complaints or needs.
• Achieves excellent scores on secret shopper reports.
• Promotes merchandise and demonstrates product knowledge to customers and assists them with any requests.
• Ensures stores in the area have adequate and appropriate merchandise to meet customer needs.

Revenue Generation Responsibilities

• Shares vision and plans execution of area strategy in alignment with corporate and district initiatives.
• Achieves store financial objectives in the areas of sales goals, comp store increases, sales per square foot, expense control, units per transaction, payroll percent and shrinkage.
• Educating store teams on reports, analysis of business trends and inventory opportunities.
• Analyze business reports consistently and develop strategies to maximize financial performance.
• Initiates and promotes sales contests and promotional directives set forth by the company.

Operational Responsibilities

• Prioritizes workflow through successful planning and time management.
• Maintains appropriate staffing levels based on business trends and payroll guidelines.
• Understands and complies with all company policies, procedures and operations.
• Responsible for maintenance of the physical appearance and cleanliness of the store within the area.
• Recognizes problems, analyzes causes, and generates alternatives and solutions.
• Tracks and checks for compliance of all company assigned training within the area.
• Recommends ideas to improve standards and process.
• Demonstrates ability to convey company expectations.
• Responsible for the protection of the Company assets (Inventory, Cash, Store fixturing and all other company property).
• Communicates all loss prevention occurrences to District Manager and Loss Prevention Manager.
• Practices excellent customer service at all times in order to prevent possible theft.
• Reviews and audits store processes, transactions and paperwork to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Communicate regularly with the District regarding operating and merchandise issues.
• Acts as a liaison between stores and the home office.
• Supervises, leads, and motivates staff members.

Visual, Brand And Product Management

• Ensures execution of all pricing strategies to achieve gross margin.
• Ensures all stores in the area are merchandised according to visual guidelines, understands and holds teams…