District Manager

greenthumbindustries; Virginia; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The District Manager at Green Thumb leads multiple retail stores within a district, driving sales, compliance, and customer engagement across the portfolio. You will develop General Managers, align store operations with the company vision, and ensure profitability and inventory control while maintaining brand standards.

You’ll spend ~75% on tactical store initiatives and 25% on strategic initiatives, building a high-performing, customer-focused team across locations and navigating regulatory

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least five years managing teams in a retail setting with POS operations.
• At least two years of multi-unit management experience preferred.
• Cannabis experience preferred.
• Experience maintaining P&L responsibility for a significant retail operation.
• Able to work a flexible schedule including weekends, evenings, and holidays.
• Must have reliable attendance, 21+ and valid driver's license or state ID.
• Ability to travel up to 75%, mostly within the state.

Responsibilities

• Lead district stores with focus on talent development and operational excellence.
• Set store targets, monitor performance, and drive profitability.
• Collaborate with GM teams to build internal talent pipelines and succession plans.
• Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and applicable laws.
• Coach store managers and maintain strong guest experiences.
• Partner with regional leadership to align retail strategy and growth objectives.
• Forecast sales and inventory needs for the district.
• Travel across stores within the district as needed.

Skills

Self-motivation

Teamwork

Communication skills

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

The Role

The District Manager at Green Thumb plays a critical role in leading multiple retail stores within a district, as a part of a dynamic and expanding national cannabis retail footprint. They will be responsible for overseeing and elevating multiple retail stores within a district (commonly state-based) with the ultimate focus on the professional development of General Managers, operational alignment and excellence within the store, meeting budgetary and sales goals, and ensuring consistency and the execution on alignment the overall vision for each store in their district. Establish benchmarks for store management teams and implementing policies and programs that will help those teams achieve their goals to ultimately drive sales and customer/patient engagement within the district.

Our ideal candidate is confident in day-to-day store operations but can elevate to effectively lead from a distance. Ultimately, they are passionate about leading, building and motivating a strong performing and highly engaged team and can connect the pieces to understand the importance of this compliance, store revenue performance, and the customer and patient connection in the cannabis space.

This position is 75% focused on store based Tactical initiatives and 25% on Strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

Leadership and Talent Management

Prioritize talent development and talent pipeline to build, train and develop strong retail store leadership team within the district within an evolving retail environment.

Continuous talent planning to ensure that the staffing plan of the region reflects the mission and standards of Green Thumb's values.

Hold General Managers accountable for assessment of their team's talent to help build a strong pipeline of internal talent ready to rise and ensuring a thoughtful succession strategy and plan.

Inspire teams through shared goals and dedication to creating a culture of positive recognition and business accountability.

Models strong interpersonal and communication skills to coach and hold others within their respective markets to the same.

Store Performance and Customer Engagement

Partner with the Regional Director in Retail leadership to develop, implement, execute and maintain the retail strategy and growth objectives partnering with FP&A on the sales trends and make recommendations to define that strategy to maximize profitability.

Partner with other District Managers within Region and outside to create synergies and to develop each other.

Set sales targets and implement action plans for achieving set goals in each market and overall.

Monitor the P&L reports for each store and collaborate with General Managers on effective ways to fill in any gaps between actual performance and company projections.

Forecast sales figures and inventory requirements for each location within district.

Prioritize store performance issues to make certain that the issues most directly affecting profitability are addressed first.

Collaborate with Compliance and Operations to ensure quality and compliance to policies, procedures, and regulations; immediately address any lapses in compliance with company policies or local, state and federal laws.

Act as a coach to the store managers and as a resource to each store employee to help inspire the success of each store.

Set high expectations for exceptional guest experiences that are engaging, educational and consistent.

(Optional for Pharmacist, District Manager)

Plays a proactive liaison role between the respective state's governing pharmacy regulatory unit and the Pharmacists and/or General Managers.

Thoroughly onboards and trains all pharmacists and ensures proper staffing structure and coverage for mandatory on-site pharmacists to ensure compliance with license and regulations.

Act as in-store Pharmacists for applicable patient intake and consultations, as needed.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience

At least five years of experience managing teams in a retail setting, specifically with POS business operations

At least two years of multi-unit management experience preferred

Cannabis experience preferred

Experience maintaining P&L responsibility for a significant retail operation

Able to work a flexible schedule depending on the needs of the business; will require work on weekends, evenings, and holidays

Must have reliable, responsible, and dependable attendance

Must be 21 years or older.

Must pass any and all required background checks.

Must possess valid driver's license or state ID.

Ability to travel up to 75%, mostly within the state between stores

Skills

Highly motivated, self-directed, innovative and able to work independently or among teams with keen judgement, common sense and resourcefulness Superior communication and interpersonal skills (verbal, non-verbal, written), with the ability to build relationships at all levels, both internally and externally Ability to make data-based decision