Function: Responsible for creating and delivering a positive and satisfying in-store experience for both the internal and external customer to maximize business results and the customer experience. Interaction: - Reports to the Regional Director, District Manager, or Area Store Manager, with extensive interaction with the Regional Manager Operations, Regional Manager of Merchandising, and Regional Visual Merchandise Manager. - Some interaction with various Corporate personnel. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: People: - Recruits, hires, and on boards direct reports, including all management and hourly associates. - Maintains a fully staffed store through succession planning, building bench strength, and filling all openings in a timely manner. - Leads training, on-going development and performance feedback for all associates and the Management Team. - Develops, builds and maintains ongoing, collaborative, working relationships among the store team to achieve the goals of the organization. - Leads and coaches a timely resolution of associate concerns and customer situations. - Influences and promotes a climate which encourages others to do their best. Identifies and uses new, creative ways to motivate others. Disciplines: - Drives store merchandise presentations that maximizes sales. Ability to re-merchandise in order to drive a satisfied customer experience and meet sales plan results. - Treats our product with care and respect by maintaining a clean, neat and organized store. - Executes merchandise functions within the store, including pricing policies and sales events. - Ensures visual execution standards are met. Process: - Communicates effectively with direct reports, Regional teams, and Corporate partners. - Leads and models a consistent customer experience daily. - Builds customer loyalty by driving the Bealls Credit Card Program and email capture. - Initiates, supports, and implements changes needed to improve the company's efficiency. - Creates and implements overall store action plans to drive key performance indicators and advance results around people, operations, merchandising, financial and customer aspects of the business. - Evaluates and responds to store sales and payroll results on a daily basis using sales data and workforce scheduler. - Executes all company policies, procedures, processes and ensures full compliance of federal, state and local laws and regulations. - Manages controllable expenses at store level. - Performs all operational functions needed to run the store on a daily basis (e.g. opening, closing, POS system, computer network, maintenance, customer service and sales). - Manages a safe working environment and the ongoing protection of Beall's assets and funds. - Accountable for all operations within their building. Supervisory Functions: - Supervise management associates through activities including (but not restricted to) hiring, motivating, delegating, promoting, counseling and coaching, performance appraisals and pay-rate reviews; scheduling and terminating. Physical Demands: - Must have adequate vision, speech, hearing and physical ability to perform essential job duties. - Must be able to stand/walk 95% of the day to perform the essential job duties. - Must be able to climb 12 foot ladder. - Must have full body rotation (i.e. bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, etc.). - Must be able to lift at least 20 pounds. Qualifications: - Minimum of five years retail management experience with a two year college degree or equivalent upper-level retail management experience. - Must have strong verbal and written communication skills. - Highly organized and able to adapt to quickly changing priorities. - Proven ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks efficiently. - Demonstrates entrepreneurial, strategic, and analytical skills. - Ability to work well with all levels of management, build partnerships and influence teams. - Schedule flexibility to include evenings, weekends, and holidays to meet demands of the business. A minimum of 45 hours are to be worked per week. - Must have a valid Florida driver license and reliable transportation. - Ability to travel based on business needs.