Job Description: Assists the management team with the day-to-day operations within a rue21 store; reports to members of store management.

Apply online at http://careers.rue21.com/ or call the Harrisburg rue21 store at 717-545-1868 with any questions.

Job responsibilities include: 

- Provide and promote exceptional customer service and offer positive resolutions to challenges and complaints from customers

- Generate sales through customer interaction, fitting room assistance, and suggestive selling

- Prevent asset loss through proper zoning and floor awareness

- Effectively perform associate register transactions without errors or shortages

- Adhere to store visual directives, maintenance standards, and cleanliness standards

- Consistently exemplify a teamwork attitude with management and coworkers to improve personal and store performance

- Communicate effectively with management and coworkers concerning business issues and opportunities

- Comply with all company policies and procedures, and follow all safety standards to ensure a safe work and shopping environment

- Support the Store Management team in driving and maximizing store sales, controlling and minimizing shrink to achieve store goals

- Complete all other duties as assigned

Qualifications: 

- No prior experience required; however, prior customer service and/or retail experience is a plus

- Work a schedule reflective of availability established at the time of hire, with the ability to increase hours based on business needs which may include weekends and/or holidays

Physical Requirements:

- Stand for up to 8 hours

- Carry up to 40 pounds

- Climb and balance on ladders

- Bend at the waist

- Lift up to 40 pounds

- Kneel and squat on the ground

- Reach above the shoulder frequently

Apply online at http://careers.rue21.com/ or call the Harrisburg rue21 store at 717-545-1868 with any questions.

Job Description: Assists with the management of day-to-day operations within a rue21 store; reports directly to the Store Manager.

Apply online at http://careers.rue21.com/ or call the Harrisburg rue21 at 717-545-1868 with any questions.

Job responsibilities include: 

- Provide managerial, operational, and financial support to the Store Manager

- Drive and maximize store sales, control and minimize shrink, and control payroll within budget to achieve store goals

- Execute company directives for merchandise placement, visual displays, and signage as well as maintain company standards for cleanliness and organization within a store

- Ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures, and follow all safety standards to ensure a safe work and shopping environment

- Demonstrate exceptional customer service

- Support the Store Manager in driving associates to execute their job duties, provide exceptional customer service, and offer positive resolutions to challenges and complaints from customers

- Achieve accuracy in executing markdowns, shipping, receiving, and cash control- Help recruit, train, develop, and retain qualified associates to ensure staffing needs are consistently met

- Participate in the performance counseling of associates

- Complete all other duties as assigned

Qualifications: - Demonstrated ability, in a sales and customer service, or management capacity, in assisting the Store Manager to operate and drive sales, preferably in a retail environment.

- Minimum of 1 year retail management experience

- Minimum of 1 year work experience at an apparel retailer

- Work a scheduled minimum of 15 hours per week including weekends and holidays with the ability to increase hours based on business needs

Physical Requirements:

- Stand for up to 8 hours

- Carry up to 40 pounds

- Climb and balance on ladders

- Bend at the waist

- Lift up to 40 pounds

- Kneel and squat on the ground

- Reach above the shoulder frequently

Start Date
September 18, 2017

Jobs Description
Assist with the management of day-to-day operations within a rue21 store; reports directly to the store manager

Areas of Responsibility

• Provide managerial, operational, and financial support to the Store Manager
• Drive and maximize store sales, control and minimize shrink, and control payroll within budget to achieve store goals
• Execute company directives for merchandise placement, visual displays, and signage as well as maintain company standards for cleanliness and organization within a store
• Ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures, and follow all safety standards to ensure a safe work and shopping environment
• Demonstrate exceptional customer service
• Support the Store Manager in driving associates to execute their job duties, provide exceptional customer service, and offer positive resolutions to challenges and complaints from customers
• Achieve accuracy in executing markdowns, shipping, receiving, and cash control
• Help recruit, train, develop, and retain qualified associates to endure staffing needs are consistently met
• Participate in the performance counseling of associatesComplete all other duties as assigned

Education / Experience Requirements

• Demonstrated ability, in a sales and customer service, or management capacity, in assisting the Store Manager to operate and drive sales, preferably in a retail environment
• Minimum of 1 year retail management experience
• Minimum of 1 year work experience at an apparel retailer
• Work a scheduled minimum of 30 hours per week including weekends and holidays with the ability to increase hours based on business needs

 Physical Requirements:

• Stand for up to 8 hours.
• Lift and carry up to 40 pounds.
• Climb and balance on ladders
• Bend at the waist
• Kneel and squat on the ground
• Reach above the shoulder frequently 

Competencies:

• Business Acumen: demonstrates financial and operational understanding of organizational strategies and apply this knowledge to business situations
• Communication: effectively conveys information and ideas in concise and meaningful exchanges through written and verbal communication
• Customer Focus: demonstrates a customer-driven approach that focuses on anticipating, understanding and servicing customer needs in order to facilitate a relationship with the brand
• Leadership: empowers, coaches, and influences others to achieve a common goal or change behavior
• Planning and Organizing: effectively creates a plan and executes the process required to achieve the desired outcome of the plan in a timely and efficient manner
• Talent Assessment & Development: manages employee development in a manner that is deliberate and strategic in order to move employees through the organization

How to Apply
Apply online