Aje Victoria Area Manager

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Description:
Join icon fashion house Aje as an Area Manager for our Victoria locations.

Aje was created in 2008 to translate the effortless Australian lifestyle into fashion.

Designed for an elegance grounded in ease, our garments empower our customers to feel relaxed, assured and beautiful.

Our company strives to invite freedom of self-expression in each architectural store environment, bringing our customers a confidence and beauty that elevates their every day to an occasion.

About this opportunity:
Being experienced and passionate about retail you will be responsible for:

Leadership:
Responsible for the development of each team member, ensuring they are able to fulfill their duties to the highest standard with minimal supervision
Be a true ambassador by leading by example to deliver a high level of customer care unique to Aje
Fostering a feedback rich culture by identifying opportunities for team members to improve their performance through positive and constructive feedback
Ensure that that the action plans for performance reviews are managed in line with start dates and probation deadlines
When necessary, performance counsel team members to established company guidelines; ensuring appraisals are conducted and succession plans established for the store, exit interviews are conducted when appropriate
Delivers reviews and goal setting for all team members and seeks support from the Regional Manager to create development and performance improvement plans
Deeply understand, model, and coach the Aje Ways of Working, policies, and procedures and other Aje specific guidelines
Responsible for the recruitment of high calibre team members that fulfill the company requirements, taking into consideration succession planning strategies who reflect the company philosophy
Lead a seamless and inspirational onboarding for all new store team members
To supervise team members and provide guidance to the Assistant Managers in their supervision of team members

Customer Experience Journey:
Provide exemplary service experiences to Aje guests, ensuring consistently memorable and inspiring customer journeys
Maintaining an in-depth knowledge of the product and brand to provide advice and recommendations as needed through communicating benefits, fabric properties, fit and styling
Responsible for establishing and building VIP clientele
Responsible for customer and VIP customer follow-ups, through multiple touch point channels to ensure they are kept educated with regards to new deliveries, upcoming promotional activity, and events
First point of contact for general customer inquiries such as customer complaints and refunds to ensure customer satisfaction is received through implementation of consistent best practices.
Identify key customer trends and requests; communicate effectively to Regional Manager relevant corporate partners to support continuous improvement and innovation of the Aje brand experience
Responsible for providing the team with customer updates, feedback, and reports, that will allow them to continuously develop their sales techniques

Visual Merchandising & Stock Management:
To work with the Field Visual Merchandiser to ensure they are maintaining visual merchandising standards and merchandising products to maximise sales potential – taking into consideration actual sales results and category results.
Ensure the team prepare for and execute the VM direction set by the business
To promote VM feedback to ensure that the product is in the right place at the right time to maximize sales opportunities.
Ensure your designated storage space is kept to high operational standard and make refilling practical
To provide feedback to the Regional Manager and or General Manager- Retail & Customer Experience on stock opportunities, or issues with stock through EOD emails

​​​​​​​Administration process:
Provide a Daily Store Performance Report and a Weekly Store Performance Report
Ensure all reports and analysis are clearly communicated to the Regional Manager
Ensure systems are in place to control the loss of revenue due to theft, poor administration, error, and waste at the store level.
Responsible for the completion of rosters for the month ahead. These rosters must be developed to the hours budget set and signed off by the Regional Manager before communicating with team members
Responsible for approving timesheets on a daily basis
Ensure that team members fulfill all administrative requirements.
To ensure that all administrative tasks are completed and submitted in line with company expectations on a daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal basis.
Ensuring all correspondence is actioned according to company standard i.e. memos, emails etc.

​​​​​​​Financial:
Accountable for all store KPIs within their region
Ensure team members are aware of their Aje financial budget and given the tools, training, and support to achieve them
Communicates store financial targets, goals and progress to the team at the start of every shift as well as regularly throughout the day
Motivate and encourage team members to achieve their financial budgets.
Ensure team members are aware of category budgets and KPI results to capitalise on every sale opportunity.
To develop an understanding of the customer profile for their store to enhance stock consolidations, promotional opportunities etc., to increase sales. Providing feedback on opportunities for the store – stock, location, promotion etc.
To ensure that all transfers into the store are accepted correctly and any discrepancies are alerted to the Retail Operation Coordinator.
Complete daily banking, unless otherwise stipulated by the Regional Manager.
Carefully monitor

You will bring:
Previous experience managing a team within customer service or the Retail Industry
Brand ambassador, passionate about fostering strong relationships with key guests
Customer centric mentality with all aspects of the role relating back to building client bases and exceeding expectations
Effective communication and presentation skills that allows you to build relationships with customers, team members and key stakeholders of the business
A proven track record of understanding and achieving performance indicators in a customer facing environment
Lead by example by acting professionally, punctual, and dependable at all times
Knows, accepts and follows all policies and procedures
Continuously train and coach all team members through individual performance and future progression plans
Uses initiative and decision-making skills, whilst ensuring all decisions are aligned to Aje Collective and the boutique
The ability to use initiative when problem solving and resolving conflict
Ability to multitask, prioritise, and manage time effectively within a fast-paced environment

What do we offer?

Generous salary packaging
It is hard to not embrace the Aje style with generous employee discounts and staff wardrobes
Your growth is our growth, training and development programs are recommended and encouraged!
Career progression
You can earn Contra credit
Access to our comprehensive Employee Assistance Program designed to support your wellbeing
No key achievement and success goes unnoticed
Referral incentives

Join now to bring the unique Aje brand of contemporary Australian style to the world.

At Aje Collective, we are committed to developing a culture and environment that celebrates diversity, equality and inclusion by promoting diversity in all forms and creating a safe environment for all employees, applicants and customers. Diversity is a founding principle of the brand, taking inspiration from multicultural Australia throughout all visual communications since inception.