National Stores Growth Director | Retail Strategy

Forsyth Barnes; Nebraska; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes is partnering with a well-established US consumer brand to appoint a Senior Director, Stores who will reshape and grow the national brick-and-mortar business from a leadership position.

You will own the future direction of the store network, drive expansion, elevate customer experience and sales performance, and lead regional teams across multiple markets in a hybrid Nebraska-based setup.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience within multi-site or national retail.
• Proven experience developing store expansion, market entry or location strategies.
• Strong track record of improving commercial performance across an existing store estate.
• Experience leading regional, district or multi-site retail teams.
• Strong understanding of customer experience, local-market activation and retail brand development.
• Ability to assess organisational structure, talent and capability and make effective changes.
• Commercially minded with strong strategic and analytical judgement.
• Comfortable operating with significant autonomy in an evolving environment.
• Experience within consumer, specialty retail, food retail, hospitality or another customer-facing environment would be highly relevant.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the future strategy for the national store network.
• Develop a scalable store growth and expansion roadmap.
• Identify high-potential markets and locations for future store openings.
• Improve store sales, traffic, profitability and overall commercial performance.
• Redefine and enhance the in-store customer and sales experience.
• Strengthen local marketing, brand presence and customer engagement.
• Assess the existing store leadership structure and identify opportunities to improve capability.
• Lead and develop regional, district and store leadership teams.
• Establish clear KPIs and performance measures across sales, customer experience and profitability.
• Partner with senior leadership across Marketing, Digital, eCommerce and Operations.
• Balance transformation and growth initiatives with the ongoing operational requirements of the existing store network.

Skills

Leadership

Multi-site retail

Strategic thinking

Customer experience

Store growth strategy

Talent assessment

Data-driven decisions

Job description

Forsyth Barnes is partnering with a well-established US consumer brand to appoint a Senior Director, Stores who will reshape and grow the national brick-and-mortar business from a leadership position.

You will own the future direction of the store network, drive expansion, elevate customer experience and sales performance, and lead regional teams across multiple markets in a hybrid Nebraska-based setup.