Aerie - Merchandising Team Leader; Assistant Manager

YOUR ROLE

As the full‑time Merchandising Team Leader, you are the Store Team Leader's "go‑to" in developing and implementing the Merchandising strategy for the store. Your passion lies in training and coaching your team into great merchants delivering AEO brand Visual standards every day. Through your leadership, your team always nails floorset execution, rocks merchandising and marketing brand standards, and keeps the store "guest ready" through effective replenishment.

Most importantly, you represent our company values and bring your REAL self to work every day.

• You have a passion for driving sales: as a key LOD, you drive sales by maximizing fitting room and salesfloor productivity and building guest loyalty through a best‑in‑class guest experience. You contribute to the store's financial success by analyzing reporting and daily trends to make strategic business decisions and support short‑ and long‑term business plans to drive key KPIs.
• You're a merchandising innovator: you coach your team to deliver an outstanding guest experience by ensuring the store always represents AEO Brand Standards. You lead day‑to‑day merchandising, sell‑through adjustments, and replenishment, and you spot merchandising opportunities and act on them.
• You're a people leader: you motivate and inspire your team through AEO's core values, hold them accountable to customer‑service standards, and model leadership yourself.
• You recruit and hire strong talent, train and develop your team, and ensure the store is staffed to meet business needs.
• You provide ongoing performance feedback through real‑time coaching, touch‑bases, development plans, and performance reviews, and you celebrate outstanding performance.
• You innovate daily operational procedures, support visual standards throughout the store, and keep fitting rooms guest‑ready.
• You maintain safety and asset‑protection standards, adhere to AEO policies, and always do the right thing.

• You love AE and Aerie products.
• You have prior retail management experience and can lead teams.
• You can multi‑task, pay attention to detail, and set priorities.
• You know how to lead and develop teams and understand employment law.
• You have business acumen.
• You have flexible availability and work when guests shop.

• They work with REAL people—there's nothing like your #AEOFamily.
• They're given opportunities for development, learning new skills, and career advancement.
• They receive 40% off product at both AE and Aerie year‑round (plus seasonal discounts with new floorsets).
• They participate in store contests to win free merchandise and other exclusive prizes.

Built on a platform of power, positivity, and no photo retouching, Aerie inspires people to love their real selves. Aerie is a fast‑growing lifestyle brand offering intimates, apparel, active wear, and swim collections. With the #Aerie

REAL™ movement, we celebrate our community by advocating body positivity and the empowerment of all women. As part of our Real Good promise, we create swimsuits, bras, and underwear with recycled polyester, recycled nylon, or sustainably sourced cotton.

AEO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to complying with all federal and provincial equal employment opportunity and human rights laws. AEO prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability, a conviction for which a pardon has been granted, or any other ground protected by applicable human rights legislation.

This applies to all AEO activities, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, assignment, training, promotion, performance evaluation, discipline, and discharge. AEO also provides reasonable accommodation of religion and disability in accordance with applicable law.

For Brand Ambassador and Stock positions, hiring will be based on need—however, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, and there may not be an opening immediately available when you apply. For all other jobs, applications will be accepted until the Apply Before date (if applicable), but may be extended based on applicant volume.

Job Identification: 18571
Job Category:
Stores
Posting Date: 2025‑09‑11T16:56:27+00:00

Job Schedule:

Full time

Location:

Vaughan, ON, Canada