Job Context & Major Challenges:
A Department Manager has to ensure, through his Team Members, customers could identify and purchase required goods as per their need, and also to encourage the customers to have a higher ticket size. The Department Manager has to manage the relationship with various other support functions like Visual Merchandising, Front end Category, Warehouse, Operations, Human Resource etc., to ensure that the overall business of his department is aligned with the business objectives of the store /company.
Key Challenges:
- The major challenges of the jobholder are:
- Responsibility of the FA s, guiding them in a manner so that pre-set target sales are met.
- Preventing attrition of FA s due to foreign brands entry into the market reason being, high pay-packages
- Consistency of the achievement of business targets throughout the year.
- Footfall high in certain stores but sales not up to those standards due to recreation shopping
- Proper knowledge regarding Inventories details of stock & products.
- Limited stock present in the warehouse, and its immediate requirement in many stores
- Non availability of fast moving items on the floor.
- Keeping staffs motivated to drive business targets.
3) Key Result Areas:
Customer service quality
- Establish rapport with potential and actual customers.
- Ensure clean and safe environment for the customer.
- Ensures capture of customer feedback by the usage of feedback forms.
- Ensure that customers become repeat customers once they enter.
People Management
- Schedule the shifts of the staff, and ensure the punctuality of the staff
- Motivate the staff during the morning briefing about the sales targets
- Regular training on fabrics, styles and fashion to the store staff
- Planning, monitoring and Appraisal of the staff on the monthly basis
- Take the initiative at the store level to improve the employee engagement
Visual Merchandising
- Implementation of the plan along with the VM implementer
- VM changes at the suitable times in the store
- Ensures the display of all physical branding elements on the shop floor
- Ensure the lighting, display is proper and is as per VM manuals
SOPs
- Ensures that store opening standards are followed properly
- Responsible for personnel planning, work hours, store / team holiday plan
- Inventory management and planning for each product category
- Ensure effective display and quicker refill without spoiling the garments
- Ensure that the housekeeping staff follows the checklist properly
- Control mechanical maintece of lights, air-system, electrical equipment
- Reports property damage, request needed repairs within company time frames
- Conducts monthly meetings and prepares documents as per the manual
- Ensure proper installation of displays properly
Cost and Cash Management
- Schedule the expenditures for the month(petty cash management)
- Follow the preventive maintece schedule to reduce the costs
- Maintain the safety, energy consumption, and expenses reports
- Containing costs incurred on the services provided by the vendors
- Control cash deposits and submission of credit slips on a daily basis
- Maintain records pertaining to customer discounts, schemes
Achievement of sales targets
- Co-ordinate with the Zonal team about the monthly targets
- Explain the sales targets to the staff about the morning briefing
- Contribute to the team efforts for accomplishing desired results
- Below the line activities store promotion initiatives
Shrinkage control
- Ensure the count as scheduled in the SOP manual
- Ensure that nobody from the staff indulges in pilferage and other activities
- Co-ordinate with security guard & staff to keep a watchful eye on customers
Warehouse Management
- Inventory control as per the standards
- Proactive in taking care of the availability of the stock at the store
