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 outstanding customer experience, and keep the store visually distinctive and impeccably maintained.
• Identify opportunities to grow the business and improve performance through collaboration.
• Maintain corporate visual merchandising directives and standards for the sales floor and back room.
• Work with the visual merchandising team to ensure clear communication and understanding between visual merchandising and store teams.
• Partner with the store management team to develop business opportunities and achieve company standards and objectives.
• Emphasize high-quality relationships with internal and external customers, and hold staff accountable for building repeat business through exceptional, spirited service.
• Conduct daily and weekly store walkthroughs to evaluate product performance, pricing, service levels and inventory.
• Keep the Store Manager informed about sales drivers, issues and priorities to develop business-maximizing strategies; ensure weekly visual presentation action plans are in place.
• Analyze store-level reports and create action plans to improve results.
• Assist with workforce planning, identification, recruitment, interviewing and hiring; recruit store personnel 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.
• Clearly communicate store and individual sales goals, key performance expectations and sales results to staff, and guide them on improving performance.
• Deliver an excellent customer journey and achieve exemplary mystery-shop results.

Qualifications

• Previous supervisory or specialist experience within a premium or luxury brand, with a track record of connecting with consumers.
• Previous people-management experience and the ability to resolve conflict and unproductive disagreements purposefully.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to cultivate belonging.
• Collaborative approach and ability to recognize and celebrate others’ contributions and achievements.
• Courage in giving feedback that promotes positive behavioural change.
• Ability to adapt quickly and work at pace.
• Energy, ability to inspire trust, and a clear presence on the shop floor.
• A can-do approach to issues and the ability to make informed decisions to find in-store solutions.

Skills

Benefits

A competitive and comprehensive benefits programme designed to support associates at home and at work, offering protection, peace of mind and flexibility.

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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