District Manager - Arizona South

Old Navy; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merchandise discount

Paid Time Off

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Medical, dental, vision, lifeinsurance

Job summary

Old Navy in Chandler, AZ, part of Gap Inc., is seeking a District Manager to lead a portfolio of stores and coach General Managers to drive exceptional customer and employee experiences, operational excellence, merchandising execution, and profitable sales.

You will monitor performance, develop teams, build district merchandising plans, conduct store visits, and ensure compliance with Gap Inc. policies. Travel to stores as needed.

Qualifications

• 3+ years multi-unit, high-volume leadership experience.
• Proven merchandising and team-building capabilities.
• Strong customer experience focus across channels.
• Willingness to travel overnight.

Responsibilities

• Lead a district of stores and coach General Managers to drive customer and employee experience.
• Monitor performance and follow up to ensure results.
• Develop district merchandising plans leveraging data and seasonality.
• Lead store visits to drive behaviors and outcomes across the business.
• Ensure stores operate in compliance with Gap Inc. policies.

Skills

Multi-unit leadership

Store operations

Merchandising leadership

Customer experience

Team coaching

Education

Bachelor's 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.

About Old Navy

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+ 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.

Benefits at Old Navy

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
• 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.
• 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.