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Do you have what it takes to lead Rice’s Gift Gallery? Are you a positive, energetic leader who lights up a room? Do you love serving people and helping a team grow? Do you take pride in a beautiful store and a job done right? If you answered yes to these questions, please read on...
Rice’s Gift Gallery is looking for a Manager to lead our department, serve our customers, and grow our team. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build the business while building the people in it — pouring into our team members so they can grow professionally and live lives of purpose and service.
This is an experienced leadership position, not an entry-level role. We are looking for a proven retail leader who has run a department or store, managed a team, and owned results. If that’s you, we’d love to meet you.
Rice’s Gift Gallery is looking for a Manager to lead our department, serve our customers, and grow our team. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build the business while building the people in it — pouring into our team members so they can grow professionally and live lives of purpose and service.
This is an experienced leadership position, not an entry-level role. We are looking for a proven retail leader who has run a department or store, managed a team, and owned results. If that’s you, we’d love to meet you.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading the Gift Gallery with positive, energetic, hands-on leadership
- Purchasing and buying — selecting merchandise our customers will love and keeping the floor fresh
- Managing inventory — ordering, receiving, stocking, pricing, and controlling shrink
- Driving sales and creating an inviting, beautifully merchandised store
- Building and growing our online sales presence — e-commerce, social media, and digital marketing
- Hiring, scheduling, and staffing the department to serve our customers well
- Training, coaching, and developing team members — growing them professionally and personally
- Building a team culture of kindness, ownership, and excellence
- Building relationships with our customers and assisting with product selection and gift registries
- Being a source of kindness for all customers
- Overseeing point of sale operations and cash drawer management
- Setting goals for the department and the team and leading the way to reach them
Required Qualifications:
- 2+ years of retail management or supervisory experience (department manager, store manager, assistant manager, or similar)
- Proven experience directly hiring, scheduling, training, and leading a team of employees
- Hands-on experience with purchasing, buying, or merchandising for a department or store
- Experience managing inventory — ordering, receiving, pricing, and loss prevention
- A track record of driving sales and being accountable for results
- Technically capable — comfortable building and managing an online sales presence (e-commerce platform, social media, and digital marketing)
- Strong organizational skills and comfort with point of sale and basic retail reporting
Preferred Qualifications and Skills:
- A positive, energetic attitude that motivates and encourages others
- A heart for developing people and growing a team
- Background in gift, home décor, boutique, or specialty retail
- Experience running an online store (Shopify, Square, BigCommerce, or similar) and growing sales through social media
- Excellent relational and verbal communication skills with people of all ages
- Ability to serve all types of people with kindness
A few things about us:
- Team environment that works well together
- We serve a small community with extreme love
- Over 50 years of serving Ohio County, KY
- We invest in our people and help them grow for lives of purpose and service
- We work really hard and love what we do
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