[Hiring] Group Sales Manager @Saks Fifth Avenue

Role Description

Under the direction of the General Manager, the Group Manager is responsible for driving sales through developing and managing effective selling teams to create a culture. The Group Manager must maintain high visibility to model clienteling behaviors and ensure an enhanced customer experience. The Group Manager takes an active role in the ongoing education and training of the selling teams and specifically, Brand Ambassadors. You understand that in order to ensure the success of the team, performance issues must be effectively managed and a solid pipeline of talent should be in place. The Group Manager is a stepping stone from Senior Selling Manager to Assistant General Manager of Merchandise.

What You Will Do

• Guide the Saks clienteling culture and the use of technology to increase overall business and engagement.
• Coach Selling Managers to lead selling and model clienteling behaviors.
• Champion the use of technology to increase sales and enhance service.
• Maintain a floor presence.
• Provide ongoing education to the selling team to increase product knowledge.
• Communicate with DMMs, Buyers and Regional Store Merchandising.
• Directly oversee the majority of Selling Managers in specific departments.
• Responsible for developing top talent Selling Managers for promotion.
• Lead ongoing training for Brand Ambassadors to enhance.
• Know competitors' top talent selling Associates.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and Talent Development to ensure top talent is placed in focus businesses.
• Manage substandard performance to improve the team while partnering with the Employee Relations Service Center.
• Create clienteling behaviors through marketing outreach.
• Foster a store climate that coaches Selling Managers to achieve Marketing event goals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of management experience with retailer.
• Full mobility required.
• Develop, manage and motivate a sales team while driving company programs.
• Proficiency in using available technology (Microsoft Office Suite is required).
• 4 year degree.
• You are a respected and proven thought leader with a quantifiable track record of success in delivering results within a large complex organization.
• A natural problem-solver, who is also intuitively analytical and creative.
• Comfortable working in a remote environment.

Salary and Other Benefits

• The starting salary for this position is between $94,388–112,000 annually. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include market, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
• This position is also eligible for bonus.
• Benefits: We offer the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Basic life insurance
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • A variety of additional voluntary benefits (such as critical illness, hospital and accident insurance)