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Job Title: Juicy Couture, District Manager, NORTH
Job Location: NY: New York City
Pay Rate: Open
Job Length: full time
Start Date: 2008-09-06

Company Name: Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Contact: HR
Phone: email only please
Fax: email only please

Description: Juicy Couture, District Manager, NORTH

Job ID: 9583 # Positions: 1 City - State - Country: US-NY-New York City Position Type: Full Time Posted Date: 08-05-08 Category: Retail -Stores/Other

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More information about this job: Overview: DISTRICT MANAGER OPPORTUNITY Juicy Couture. Luxurious, sexy and fun. Juicy is all about feeling happy, and comfy and gorgeous. Designed with a strong sense of whimsy, this fashion-forward collection of clothing, accessories, jewelry and fragrances is created for women, men, children and dogs who want to look and feel fabulous. Juicy Couture, founded in 1994 by Gela Nash-Taylor and Pamela Skaist-Levy, has evolved into a multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand. Originally known for the tracksuit, Juicy Couture has expanded into womens and girls ready-to-wear apparel, shoes, swimwear, timepieces, handbags, sunglasses, jewelry, optic eyewear, small leather goods and womens fragrances. Juicy also offers baby gear and a wide array of doggie accessories for the savvy puppy. Juicy Couture for Men (soon to be Dirty English), was debuted in 2003 and includes denim, ready-to-wear, accessories, fragrance and sunglasses. Its luxury collection, Couture Couture, launched in 2007 and is manufactured with premier Italian fabrics designed exclusively for the brand. Juicy Couture currently has 36 retail locations across the U.S. and is set to expand to 60 stand-alone retail stores in the U.S. by year-end 2008. Internationally, Juicy Couture retail locations can be found in Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and will expand in Asia with 18-21 stores by the end of 2008, totaling 83 retail locations worldwide. Juicy Couture has an outstanding opportunity available in the Retail Outlet Division. Juicy Couture is opening stores, and looking for an exemplary and experienced District Manager for the rapidly expanding West Coast territory.

Responsibilities: In this role the District Manager will: -Ensure store team development: Recruit, select, train, develop, evaluate, motivate and manage the performance of your Managers. -Be based in the NJ/NY area, travel 60-70%%. -Facilitate sales achievement, productivity, and profitability in all district locations. -Lead your store teams to cultivate Client relationships that represent a gracious, interactive and fun Customer experience in every store. -Work closely with business partners in merchandising, marketing, operations, and visual presentation to support consistency, compliance and operational standards in all stores. -Be an integral part of building the Juicy Couture brand in our Specialty Retail Division. - Oversee and direct multiple stores within an assigned geographic proximity. - Provide strong leadership and motivation to the management team, in order to execute sales generation, operational, visual, and human resources functions in the store to ensure customer satisfaction, maximum productivity and profitability, and compliance with store and company procedures. - Through their managers and individual coaching, the District Manager is also accountable for the quality of training and development for each of their staff members, in their assigned locations. Sales Generation -Supervise Store Managers and their employees to ensure that all store sales goals are met or exceeded. -Identify ways to drive sales generation and ensure action is taken to achieve those goals. -Hold Store Managers accountable for achieving productivity standards in accordance with plan. Customer Service -Support, model, and enhance the seamless customer service focus by creating an environment that is engaging, sales focused and friendly for customers and co-workers. -Model and reinforce Clienteling standards within the store supervisors. Merchandising -Ensure high visual merchandising standards are reinforced. Meet or exceed expectations to support brand consistency across the format(s) supervised, and ensure store presentation standards are achieved and maintained. -Communicate merchandise sell-through and market trend information to Regional Manager. Operations/ HR Administration -Conduct management and sales associate recruiting, interviewing, and selection processes. -Create and maintain store, team, district, and regional relationships. -Train, develop, and supervise management staff. Ensure high quality supervision, training, and development of sales associates. -Review and assess the performance of store management staff. -Ensure high quality reviews are administered. -Ensure compliance to payroll and business planning process. Create or oversee creation of schedules for all stores assigned according to the needs of the business. -Model, monitor, maintain, and follow company policies; support district/regional expectations and systems. -Handle store level Human Resources or Loss Prevention issues with Regional Manager, Corporate HR, and Loss Prevention support when necessary.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate: -Will have a minimum of 5 years experience in fashion retail management; multi-store accountability, in better or luxury environments. -Have a proven track record of leading successful Management & Sales Teams that make business happen and achieve desired results. -Have a knowledge, understanding and are comfortable working in a Clientele service environment. -Extensive background in the opening of stores in new markets. -Ability to travel (auto, airplane), visit stores, and attend corporate meetings as appropriate - Proactive ability to multi task and prioritize - Strong time management skills - Follow-up skills and self-starter attitude - Strong leader, hands-on, and exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills. -Proficient in MS Word, Excel, and retail analysis skills. -Are successful in identifying talent; recruiting, training and developing Managers and Sales Associates to meet and exceed their career objectives. - High school graduate or equivalent experience required - College degree preferred - Able to lift 30 (lbs). If you are passionate about fashion, enjoy luxury retail and posses the above referenced qualifications, review our website at:

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