Store Manager

Location: Singapore

State/Province/City: South East

City: Singapore

Business Unit: Store

Time Type: Full-time

Description & Requirements

1. Create and foster a respectful and inclusive team environment and culture by welcoming and celebrating differences to ensure a supportive and engaging experience for team members and guests.
2. Establish a vision for the store, based on key metrics and initiatives, and ensure all team members are connected and informed.
3. Build a strong and diverse team that includes team members with various experiences, backgrounds, and skillsets to drive store operations.
4. Manage the store’s hiring process, including recruitment, selection, and onboarding, ensuring a focus on IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity, and action) and other lululemon priorities.
5. Support ongoing learning and development of all store team members consistently and equitably by providing direct feedback, coaching, mentoring, and career path guidance.
6. Engage in and drive career discussions to support and reinforce team understanding of how working at lululemon will contribute to career and personal growth by sharing internal opportunities.
7. Provide team member recognition, gap assessment, and overall performance documentation to support growth reinforce the career and personal growth of your team and address performance concerns..
8. Plan and prepare team member schedule according to labour requirements, availability, and budget considerations.
9. Address all employee relations issues, including knowing when to partner with People and Culture (P&C) team to take appropriate action.

1. Support team members (e.g., leading by example or coaching) to ensure a great guest experience, including assessing guest needs, providing technical product education, and supporting in-store transactions and omnichannel programs.
2. Lead dynamically on the floor to assess and fulfill the needs of the business, team, and guests.
3. Address emergent issues, including guest escalations and emergency requests.
4. Increase brand awareness and acceptance in the community by cultivating inclusive relationships with partners and community influencers and seeking to engage with diverse community resources and programs.
5. Establish and maintain local relationships with ambassadors, sweat leaders, and other external partners by identifying, selecting, training, and facilitating relationship building with guests and team.

1. Establish supportive and productive relationships with all team members in-store and within region.
2. Collaborate with in-store team members to ensure optimal guest experience that values guests’ time and support store operations.
3. Collaborate across stores or regions (e.g., regional and area calls with store service center [SSC] partners, with Regional Managers) on topics such as product feedback, community, and conversion.

1. Manage whole store profit and loss (P&L) in accordance with goals (sales, budget, etc.).
2. Plan and execute high-level quarterly and annual planning for store with respect to strategy, budget, and labor (including recruiting and training/development).
3. Manage floor plan and make decisions to drive efficiency and effectiveness of floor operations.
4. Understand and adhere to people safety policies and procedures to maintain a safe work environment.
5. Perform work in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, and laws or regulations.

• Inclusion & Diversity: Creates/supports an inclusive environment that values/celebrates differences
• Integrity/Honesty: Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner
• Leadership: Is able and desires to lead, influence, and inspire others; motivates, empowers, develops, and directs people as they work
• Decision Making: Uses logic and reasoning to evaluate alternatives and make effective, timely decisions
• Adaptability/Agility: Tolerates uncertainty and ambiguity and can change priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Team Building: Creates and develops teams that maximize accomplishments; encourages unique contributions and different perspectives
• Strategic Thinking: Sets strategies that are aligned to vision and values of the company to achieve goals/vision/further the mission; considers the 'big picture' implications of decisions
• Resilience: Remains persistent; recovers quickly from setbacks
• Change Management Leadership: Leads others through all phases of change processes and uncertainty
• Business Acumen: Is able to quickly understand and address business information (e.g., profit and loss statements, budgets and sales forecasts, retail strategy and approaches)

• Legally eligible to work in the jurisdiction of the store which you are assigned to, or willing to work abroad if necessary.

• Willing to work a flexible schedule

• Willing to work as part of a team and also complete work independently or alone
• Willing to move through a store for most of a shift to help guests and accomplish work

• 1 year people management experience

• Education: High School or Secondary school diploma equivalent, or above.
• Experience: 2 years retail or sales specific management experience.