District Manager - Alberta North

Old Navy; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merchandise discount

Competitive PTO

DONATION MATCH

RRSP

Employee stock purchase plan

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Virtual health care

Parental top up

Job summary

Old Navy is seeking a District Manager to lead a portfolio of stores and coach General Managers to deliver outstanding customer and employee experiences, operational excellence, and profitable growth. You will be accountable for performance across initiatives, ensuring consistency across stores as measured by P&L and reports.

You will attract and develop top talent, drive results, and implement data-driven merchandising plans while fostering an inclusive environment and maintaining store

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to drive results and manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to build diverse, high-performing teams with an inclusive environment.
• Deliver an exceptional customer experience across channels.
• Willingness to travel overnight or between stores as required.
• Flexibility to work days, nights, weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Attract, hire, develop and retain the best team to meet short and long-term goals.
• Monitor performance and follow up to ensure results are delivered.
• Develop individual and team performance via clear expectations and recognition.
• Foster an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
• Identify product themes and create a district merchandising plan using data and seasonality.
• Lead store visits to drive behaviors and results across the business.
• Plan contingencies and solve problems with sustainable solutions.
• Monitor the external market and competition.
• Ensure stores comply with Gap Inc. policies and procedures.

Skills

Drive results

Merchandising capability

Diverse high-performing teams

Customer experience

Change management

Multi-tasking

Travel readiness

Education

College degree preferred

Job description

About Old Navy

Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you’re choosing a different path. From day one, we’ve been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season.

We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we’re family.

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+ year’s 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.

Benefits at Old Navy

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Athleta, 30% off at Outlet, and 10% off markdowns at Gap, Banana Republic and Outlet.
• Competitive Paid Time Off plans.*
• Company match for donations and volunteer time*
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee stock purchase plan.*
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
• Virtual health care 24/7*
• Maternity/Parental Top Up.*
• See more of the benefits we offer.
• For eligible employees

Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.