District Manager, Gap Outlet - Chicago

Gap, Inc.

$75K — $95K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Sun Valley, CA
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated ability to drive results in a multi-unit environment.
  • Experience in building merchandising capability and coaching teams.
  • Proven track record of creating diverse, high-performing teams.
  • Ability to deliver exceptional customer experience across multiple channels.
  • Strong adaptability to challenges and change management.
  • Analytical mindset to exceed performance goals based on learnings.
  • Preferred college degree; 3+ years in business leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Attract, hire, and develop a high-performing team.
  • Monitor team performance and ensure results.
  • Develop individual and team capabilities through clear expectations and feedback.
  • Foster an inclusive and collaborative work culture.
  • Analyze product performance to create effective merchandising plans.
  • Lead store visits focused on improving business outcomes.
  • Identify and implement solutions to overcome operational challenges.

Benefits

  • Inclusive work environment promoting collaboration.
  • Opportunities for professional development and team management.
  • Dynamic multi-store leadership role that enhances management skills.
  • Emphasis on data-driven decision-making and merchandising strategy.
Full Job Description
About the Role
As a District Manager, you lead a portfolio of stores and coach a team of General Managers to deliver an optimal customer and employee experience, operational excellence, merchandising execution, maximum productivity and profitable sales and earnings growth. You are accountable to drive consistent, high performance across all initiatives, and for ensuring consistency between your stores as measured by the P&L and other reports.What You'll Do
  • Attract, hire, develop and retain the best team to meet both short and long-term business goals.

  • Monitor performance and consistently followup to ensure results are delivered.

  • Develop individual and team performance & capabilities via clear expectations, intentional conversations, meaningful recognition and accountability.

  • Foster and maintain an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

  • Identify themes in product performance across your portfolio and create a district merchandising plan to excel performance utilizing data points, strategy and seasonality

  • Lead effective store visits focused on driving behaviors which enable the team to consistently deliver results in all areas of the business.

  • Identify and use multiple ways to achieve goals when confronted with obstacles; plan for contingencies.

  • Identify and solve problems with sustainable solutions

  • Maintain a keen awareness of the external market and competition

  • Ensure stores are operating in compliance with all Gap Inc. policies and procedures

Who You Are
  • Demonstrated ability to drive results; execute based upon direction and manage multiple, competing priorities

  • Demonstrated ability to build merchandising capability and coach to sustain merchant strength in stores

  • Demonstrated ability to build diverse, high performing teams with an inclusive environment

  • Demonstrated ability to deliver an exceptional customer experience via all channels

  • Demonstrated ability to continually embrace challenges, take risks, learn fast and enable change.

  • Demonstrated ability to achieve beyond what is expected, and take actions or use improvements or learnings to exceed existing goals.

  • College degree preferred.

  • 3+ years multi-unit, high volume, complex business leadership preferred.

  • Flexible to work days, nights, weekends and holidays to meet the needs of the business.

  • Ability to travel overnight and/or between stores as required.

  • Ability to lift and carry 30lbs.

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