Retail Department Manager - Colorado Springs, Co

What's Cool About This Job

REI is committed to becoming a fully inclusive, antiracist, multicultural organization. To fulfill our brand promise of enabling a life well-lived outside for everyone, we are seeking candidates who demonstrate shared values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism.

As a Retail Department Sales Manager, you are a key member of the retail store management team. You will be a critical manager in the store coaching, developing, and motivating sales teams to impact REI’s organizational goals. You will report to the Store Manager, manage a team of retail staff to deliver on business goals of sales, memberships, and service. You will spend most of your time as an energetic, visible manager, motivating, directing, and coaching hourly staff. Specific responsibilities include:

• Recruits and develops diverse managers from within and outside the organization.
• Drives sales through all channels by maximizing selling behaviors. Capitalizes on all promotional events through successful event execution and staff excitement
• Delivers motivational experiences for our members and customers through effective execution of outdoor programs and outreach
• Recognizes and rewards team members to deepen engagement and cultivate teamwork
• Ensure execution of all visual merchandising standards
• Provides dynamic and regular customer-focused feedback and engages in two-way dialogue
• Builds agile, service-focused teams to deliver on the evolving expectations of our customers
• Leverages tools, reports and insights to make appropriate business adaptations that result in increased sales and service
• Directs the execution of our core standards and overall visual direction to maximize sales
• Aligns with company direction and communicates critical company strategies and changes to teams as needed

Bring your passion and expertise

Are you a bold person? Do you thrive in the outdoors? Are you ready to drive and coach a dedicated teams to reach organizational goals? Bring your leadership skills to REI and help us enhance our co-op by promoting the REI culture within the co-op and evangelizing our brand to our external customers. We pride ourselves on living our values and we look to our store leadership teams to deliver on that promise. Ready for your next journey? Take a look at the skills we look for in our Sales Managers:

• Commitment to deliver an outstanding customer experience
• Proficiency in interpreting and using retail financial metrics to drive key performance indicators
• Effective communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to set standards and hold team members accountable
• Minimum of 3+ years of successful retail management experience
• Demonstrated experience in Visual Merchandising
• Demonstrated dynamic managership skills with the ability to drive, motivate and develop future managers

REI hires, trains, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We remain deeply committed to making the Co-op a place where everyone can feel safe and be themselves. Join us.

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.

The pay for this role is: $26.90 - $33.65 per hour .

At REI we offer an enviable work environment that Fortune Magazine has recognized on the "100 Best Places to Work" list since the award's inception – 23 years in a row! Sure, we work hard, but it’s balanced with time off to play—a strategy that works for us as we continue to grow and thrive. Want to enjoy a workplace where you can be yourself, be heard and be respected while having a job that challenges you? This is the place.

With more than 160 retail locations (and growing), REI offers unique competitive benefits to its more than 15,000 employees, including healthcare, gear and apparel discounts, free equipment rentals and challenge grants to help employees reach personal outdoor goals, generous retirement plan contributions, public transit subsidy, adoptions assistance, paid sabbaticals, and more.

REI is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Posting Range

$26.90 - $33.65 per hour