Calvin Klein Assistant Store Manager

About Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein is a globally influential American fashion house founded in New York in 1968, celebrated for its refined minimalism, modern sensuality, and cultural impact across apparel, underwear, denim, fragrance, and lifestyle categories. As an employer, the brand offers a dynamic environment where design intelligence, commercial agility, and inclusive storytelling converge. Its teams contribute to a legacy shaped by bold imagery, disciplined simplicity, and a distinctly urban point of view. Calvin Klein seeks talent eager to challenge convention, understand contemporary consumers, and build resonant brand experiences within an international organization committed to creativity, collaboration, and responsible growth.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead store teams to generate sales and profit, minimize losses, deliver an excellent customer experience, and maintain a distinctive, impeccably presented store.
• Identify opportunities to grow the business and improve performance through collaboration.
• Maintain corporate visual merchandising directives and standards across the sales floor and back room.
• Collaborate with the visual merchandising team to ensure clear communication and understanding between VM and store teams.
• Partner with store management to develop business opportunities and achieve company standards and objectives.
• Emphasize high-quality relationships with internal and external customers; hold staff accountable for building repeat business through spirited, high-calibre service.
• Conduct daily and weekly store walkthroughs, evaluating product performance, pricing, staff service levels, and inventory levels.
• Communicate sales drivers, issues, and priorities to the Store Manager and develop strategies to maximize business; ensure weekly visual presentation action plans are in place.
• Analyze store-level reports and create action plans to improve results.
• Support manpower planning and the identification, recruitment, interviewing, and hiring of store personnel, recruiting individuals with a broad range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds.
• Work with the Store Manager to build bench strength for key positions, including potential successors.
• Participate in weekly management and other staff meetings.
• Communicate store and individual sales goals, performance expectations, sales results, and guidance on performance improvement to staff.
• Deliver an excellent customer journey and achieve exemplary mystery-shop results.

Qualifications

• Previous supervisory or specialist experience within a premium or luxury brand.
• Previous people-management experience and the ability to resolve conflict and unproductive disagreements.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to cultivate belonging.
• Collaborative approach, recognizing and celebrating others’ contributions and achievements.
• Confidence in giving feedback that promotes positive behavioural change.
• Ability to adapt quickly and work at pace.
• Energetic, trustworthy presence on the shop floor.
• Can-do approach and ability to make informed decisions and find in-store solutions.

Skills

Benefits

Competitive and comprehensive benefits programme designed to provide protection, peace of mind, and flexibility at home and at work.

Culture

Calvin Klein fosters a modern, inclusive workplace culture shaped by bold creativity, confident self-expression, and a global fashion perspective. As an employer, the brand encourages collaboration across disciplines, empowers teams to challenge conventions, and maintains a fast-paced environment where innovation and cultural relevance are central to its identity.

About Cerulean

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