District Manager

Responsibilities

• Maximizes store sales through excellent customer service, product availability, merchandising and exceptional store image inside and out.
• Provides information to store management by recapping promotional activity; reporting business opportunities, results, trends and competitive information.
• Manages controllable costs by educating managers on procedures for controlling merchandise variation, managing salaries, overtime, cash, repair and maintenance costs.
• Collaborates with the marketing team to ensure promotions and new product introductions are fully implemented.
• Provides feedback to category managers regarding stock issues.
• Partners with vendors to ensure product availability.
• Timely execution of monthly promotions.
• Ensure vendor's performance and behavior is professional.
• Ensures store operations are profitable by managing cash and merchandise variation, salaries, and other controllable expense lines on the P&L.
• Ensures compliance with requirements by enforcing adherence to policies and procedures, and government regulations.
• Enforces and monitors restricted sales policies; advises management of needed actions.
• Protects employees, customers and company assets by maintaining a safe and secure working environment; enforcing safety practices; providing safety communication and training.
• Achieves financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Provides leadership and direction to store managers, including assistance in recruiting, selection, and orientation processes, assists with employee development and training programs; planning, monitoring and appraising job results.
• Establishes job expectations.
• Provides coaching to develop action plans for issue resolution.
• Administers counseling notices; initiates corrective actions.
• Implements non-discriminatory related management skills while hiring, training, counseling, motivating and separating employees.
• Adheres to the Company Operating Policy of Legal, Ethical, and Moral practices.
• Enhances professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reading professional publications; establishing personal networks; or participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing Financial and Key Result Area targets pursuant to Company plan guidelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field preferred.
• Other combinations of job related experience and education that meet the requirements may be substituted.
• Three to five years of retail business experience or more preferred; including minimum of two years of management responsibility.

Skills

• Demonstrated leadership ability
• Good communication skills
• Self-directed and self-motivated
• Customer service oriented
• Ability