Sales Manager - Fifth Avenue Club

Sales Manager

As the Sales Manager, you possess total ownership of the sales experience within your Saks Fifth Avenue store and occupy a critical role in the achievement of the company's objectives. Within this role, you facilitate partnerships across functions and leverage team skills to build a customer-centric sales experience, all while being a steward of the Saks Fifth Avenue brand. You have an appetite for driving sales by developing the clienteling skills and selling behaviors of a team of high-performing direct reports. You maintain high visibility on the selling floor to coach and develop our selling force, while refining the art of connecting with clients to build sustainable relationships through exceptional service and regular outreach. With strong oversight of onboarding, training, ongoing education, and performance management of the selling team, you foster a powerful sense of teamwork and collaborative spirit to successfully achieve the store's goals.

Required Qualifications (Minimum Requirements):

• Relevant experience and leading a team, with supervisory experience managing a team of direct reports
• A proven track record of success managing a selling and operations workforce and achieving business results
• Proficiency in utilizing available technology, including clienteling tools and social media (social selling), as well as Google Workspace programs, advanced proficiency preferred
• History of building, leading, motivating, and coaching teams to achieve objectives
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, structuring messages in a clear logical manner using the most appropriate communication medium
• Strong attention to detail
• May require standing, bending, climbing stairs, and lifting and carrying up to 10 pounds
• Willing to work a flexible schedule based on business need, which will include evenings, weekends, and holidays

Preferred Qualifications:

• Luxury retail fashion experience preferred
• 4-year degree preferred
• Continuously builds skills and knowledge through training, coaching, and career experiences
• Demonstrates a working knowledge and appreciation of the Saks Fifth Avenue business and the fashion industry
• Adapts personal approach in response to diverse situations and people
• Responds to unexpected changes in work environment with creativity and resilience
• Establishes and upholds high personal standards for individual work and environment
• Maintains a customer-centric mentality versus a solely store-centric one
• Comfortable working in a remote environment

Your Life and Career at Saks Fifth Avenue:

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic fast paced environment at a company experiencing growth and transformation
• Exposure to rewarding career advancement opportunities across the largest multi-brand luxury retailer from retail to distribution, to digital or corporate
• Comprehensive benefits package for all eligible full-time employees (including medical, vision and dental)
• An amazing employee discount

Salary and Other Benefits :

The starting salary for this position is between $85,000 - 100,000 annually. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include market, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for bonus

Benefits :

We offer the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, disability insurance, and a variety of additional voluntary benefits (such as critical illness, hospital and accident insurance).