Civic-minded web + brick and mortar based specialty retailer
Assistant Manager
Part-TimePosted on 10/28/2026
No salary listed
Junior
Brownsville, TX, USA
In PersonOnsite.
RetailRetail Store Management
About the job
Requirements
At least 1–2 years of retail store management experience.
Skills in communication, recruiting, operations including payroll, reporting, scheduling, and merchandising, and team development.
At least 18 years of age.
A high school diploma or GED equivalent.
Ability to navigate the store, merchandise products using approved store equipment, and pack and unpack boxes weighing up to 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Responsibilities
Support the Store Manager in achieving the sales plan and comparable sales goals.
Help recruit, develop, and retain a collaborative team to run the store.
Promote new products using social media platforms and customer-engagement services such as buy online, pick up in store and curbside pickup.
Lead store operations, including delegation and customer-first selling practices.
Monitor shrink and loss prevention, payroll hours, and associate schedules.
Communicate with retail leadership and headquarters partners about trends and customer feedback.
Run sales reports and use data to guide strategy for achieving sales targets.
Merchandise the store using planograms and launch promotions on time.
Partner with the Store Manager to develop high-performing, customer-focused associates.
At BoxLunch, we’re committed using our love of pop culture to do something amazing: eliminate hunger. With every $10 spent, we donate a meal to Feeding America that directly benefits the communities we are in.
BoxLunch Houston Galleria is on the search for a Part-Time Assistant Manager – Level 2 that will help lead our civic minded, pop culture driven brand.You’ll support the Store Manager in achieving store objectives with regards to hitting sales targets, recruiting, and development. You’re Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker rolled into one; you can handle anything that comes your way while driving sales and building lifelong relationships with our customers.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Support your Store Manager in achieving the sales plan and/or comp sales goals. It’s not all about the Benjamins, but then it kind of is
Help recruit, develop, and retain a super collaborative, passionate team to run your store alongside you
You’re the store’s #1 fan – you’ll create buzz and customer engagement through promotion of new products, use social media platforms, and additional benefits such as BOPIS and curbside pickup
Provide leadership around running an operationally sound business; you’ll bring the right balance of ops, delegation/autonomy, and customer-first selling practices
Keep watch (like the Night’s Watch) on shrink/loss prevention, payroll hours, and associate schedules
Collaboratively communicate with retail leadership and HQ partners on trends & customer feedback
Run sales reports and use data to help guide your strategy to hit sales targets
You’ll merchandise the store in a compelling way, leveraging planograms as a guide, while launching all promos on time. In short, you’ll deliver the goods!
Every Frodo needs a Fellowship! In partnership with your Store Manager, you’ll develop your team of loyal associates that are high-performing and customer-focused
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
At least 1-2 years of retail store management experience. If you’re passionate about philanthropy & all things pop culture, you're in the right place!
You’ve led teams to success and want to experience more of it. You’ll have skills to pay the bills: communication, recruiting, operations (payroll, reporting, scheduling, merchandising), and be a developer of your peeps
You have Avenger-like skills: communication, time management, professionalism, operations, and a drive to develop your peeps
You'll have to be at least 18 years of age to join the fandom force
A high school diploma or GED equivalent. If you have a degree, even better
Roll with the punches. Retail is a fast-changing industry and you like catching curveballs thrown your way
The usual retail stuff (with or without reasonable accommodation): able to navigate your way around the store, merchandise product utilizing approved store equipment, and pack and unpack boxes of awesome merch that may weigh up to 50 pounds