District Manager - Pennsylvania/DC

Gap; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 103,700 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

50% off regular-priced merchandise

Competitive paid time off

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

Job summary

Gap is seeking a District Manager based in San Francisco, California. In this role, you will lead a portfolio of stores, coaching General Managers to optimize customer and employee experiences, as well as drive sales growth. Your responsibilities will include monitoring performance, solving problems, and maintaining compliance with company policies.

The ideal candidate will have significant leadership experience, a passion for team building, and a commitment to delivering an exceptional customer experience. Benefits include competitive paid time off, a 401(k) plan, and a merchandise discount program.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of multi-unit, high-volume, complex business leadership experience.
• Ability to travel overnight and/or between stores as required.
• Flexible to work days, nights, weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of General Managers to achieve business goals.
• Monitor performance to ensure results are delivered.
• Develop individual and team capabilities through intentional conversations.

Skills

Leadership

Merchandising Capability

Team Building

Customer Experience

Education

College degree preferred

Job description

About Gap

Gap has always been about optimistic American style. Starting with our very first store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco, opened almost 50 years ago by Doris and Don Fisher. The thread that’s run through those five decades is the phenomenal people that make up our brand – our employees and our customers. People who are rooted in the legacy that makes Gap what it is, but who are also focused on the future. People who want to leave the world better than they found it.

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 follow up 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 Gap

• Merchandise discount: 50% off regular‑priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• Competitive paid time off plan.
• Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
• See more of the benefits we offer.

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.

Salary Range: $103,700 - $140,000 USD

Employee pay will vary based on factors such as qualifications, experience, skill level, competencies and work location. We will meet minimum wage or minimum of the pay range (whichever is higher) based on city, county and state requirements.