REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.) is hiring: Department Manager Visual in Boulde

Overview:

REI Co-op is united around discovering, building and celebrating better ways of working in this world, all so that folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors, for people and our planet.

Our team seeks a Visual Department Manager to help us achieve a high level of brand storytelling. You are skilled in project management, spatial productivity, and brand styling. You make adaptations to your store's assigned assortment, based on company direction. With your help, the team will take ownership of visual standards. You'lldirect, train, and execute visual expectations on the sales floor. Youll make your mark through employee engagement, and customer experience. Ready to discover better with us?

Responsibilities:

How you'll be successful:

• Guide overall visual direction through standards training, floor moves, and seasonal mapping.
• Partners with staff and managers for feedback on visual displays.
• Communicate key company strategies and changes to teams as needed.
• Train store teams on standards, sign placement, and fixture utilization.
• Establish and arrange popular department business drivers to maximize sales.
• Plans, identifies, communicates, and delegatesresponsibilities toteam.
• Handle training, coaching, recognition, and performance management.
• Direct the execution of our core standards and overall visual direction.
• Drive sales through all channels by maximizing selling behaviors.
• Recruits and develops diverse talent from within and outside the organization.
• Inspire a customer-centric culture byrecognizing and rewarding team.
• Develop top performers and evaluate performance, give coaching and appropriate level of feedback.
• Builds teams through effective employee development, involvement, and communication.

Bring your passionate, authentic self.
We lead with our values, and we are creating a culture that inspires and enables everyone to bring their whole self and their highest ambitions to work every day, so that we can achieve more outside together. Join us in seeking, creating, and building new ways to work.

Your qualities:

• 3-5 years of retail management and visual merchandising experience (preferred)
• Enjoys communicating and building relationships, both inside and outside the organization.
• Open to feedback and other viewpoints in the spirit of supporting the business.
• Uses business understanding, innovative thinking, and sound judgment to solve problems.
• Makes solid recommendations by combining information from various sources.
• Produces quality work by setting effective goals and establishing priorities.
• Organizes and uses resources to meet deadlines, keeps others in the loop about plans and progress.
• Engages and influences others to accomplish worthwhile organizational goals.

Closing:

At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all. We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization. We know that there's strength in our diversity that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.??

Pay Transparency?

We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.???

REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off.? Click here for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.?

Base Pay Range:
$30.67 - $38.36 per hour