SEATTLE, Jan. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading fashion
retailer Nordstrom, Inc. will hire 250 employees for its first
stand-alone Men's Store in Manhattan, which will open on Broadway between
West 57th and West 58th Streets in
April 2018. The company will also
open a New York City flagship
store in 2019 at the base of Central Park Tower, an Extell
Development Company Project. Sales and support positions will be
posted on Wednesday, January 3 and
interested applicants are invited to apply for jobs online at
careers.nordstrom.com. The retailer also announced Cailin Caro, as store manager of the NYC Men's
Store, and company veteran Chris
Wanlass, as vice president of its Manhattan full-line stores.
"This is an exciting and historic time to be a part of Nordstrom
as we prepare to open our first full-line store in one of the best
retail cities in the world," said Caro. "We're building an
empowered team of people focused on service and providing customers
with an elevated experience that reflects the best of what we have
to offer."
Sales positions are available in all areas, including men's
apparel, designer, furnishings, shoes and grooming. Hiring will
also take place for various support positions in building services,
housekeeping, loss prevention, as well as jobs in the store's food
offerings. Nordstrom offers employees a competitive benefits
package including a retail discount, medical coverage, 401(k),
commuter benefits (up to $100 a month
towards transit elections) and paid parental leave. New hires will
participate in extensive product-knowledge seminars, selling
immersion and a day of shadowing at one of the neighboring
full-line stores.
To promote the start of employee hiring, the retailer wrapped
the exterior of its Men's Store with larger-than-life 'help wanted'
banners incorporating witty job descriptions like "Desperately
Seeking Sock Svengali," "Now Hiring: Sneaker Obsessives," and
"People People Wanted." The recruiting campaign also includes
digital and social media placements.
"Nordstrom is a great place to build your career, something I've
been fortunate to have experienced firsthand over the course of my
25 years with the company," said Wanlass. Adding that he and Caro
are "committed to creating an environment that fosters career
development and growth opportunities, not only within our
Manhattan stores, but the company
as a whole."
Wanlass began his career in 1992 as a stockperson at Nordstrom
Fashion Place in Salt Lake City,
Utah. He relocated to Atlanta in 1997 to open the company's first
store in the southern U.S. at Perimeter Mall as a department
manager. In 1999, Wanlass made the move to Seattle, where he worked as an assistant buyer
and then buyer in the men's division. Relocating again in 2003, he
accepted a new challenge as the Assistant Store Manager of the
Downtown San Francisco store. Over
the past 10 years, Wanlass has been the store manager at Stonestown
(San Francisco), The Westchester (White
Plains, N.Y.), Arden Fair
(Sacramento, Calif.), Bellevue Square (Bellevue, Wash.), and most recently Pacific
Centre (Vancouver, B.C.).
Caro joined the company as a seasonal salesperson in Lingerie in
2006 at the Nordstrom Downtown Seattle flagship store, and then
went on to hold various store and regional management positions in
the Lingerie division in Oregon,
California and Washington D.C. In 2012, she became store
manager of the Nordstrom Rack Towson in Baltimore, and later served as the store
manager at Nordstrom Rack Union Square. Most recently Caro was
store manager of The Westchester
full-line store in White Plains,
N.Y.
Nordstrom has been recognized as an employer of choice by
Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For (for 20 consecutive
years); Human Rights Campaign's Best Places to Work for LBGT
Equality (for 13 consecutive years); Forbes' Best Employers for
Diversity 2017; and Business of Fashion's The Best Companies to
Work For in Fashion 2017.
About Nordstrom
Nordstrom, Inc. is a leading fashion retailer based in the U.S.
Founded in 1901 as a shoe store in Seattle, today Nordstrom operates 366 stores
in 40 states, including 122 full-line stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto
Rico; 232 Nordstrom Rack stores; two Jeffrey boutiques; two
clearance stores; seven Trunk Club clubhouses; and its Nordstrom
Local service concept. Additionally, customers are served online
through Nordstrom.com, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook and
TrunkClub.com. Nordstrom, Inc.'s common stock is publicly traded on
the NYSE under the symbol JWN.
Editor's Note: Renderings of the Nordstrom NYC
Men's Store can be downloaded in the Nordstrom Press Room at
Nordstrom.com/pressroom.
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