The Skechers Retail Team obsessively drives outstanding sales gains, fueling growth and expansion for the Skechers brand worldwide! The District Sales Manager in Waiting is a store expert who passionately leads and develops a talented team of store managers to deliver exceptional store results. This energetic leader is talent, product, and sales-focused and has the positivity, resilience, and grit to solve anything, even on tough days.
Entrepreneur: Drives their district to meet and exceed sales and metrics goals and guides their team in addressing and correcting store performance challenges. Ensures their team is proactively building their sales and conversion by localizing and tailoring their assortment and merchandising to their customers’ wants and needs. Maximizes profitability and a healthy balance sheet by keeping costs and losses in line with goals.
Expert: Leverages their deep wealth of retail knowledge and their internal partners to solve problems and remove obstacles for their team, regardless of operational challenges or circumstances beyond their control. Brilliantly shifts gears to respond to sudden changes or demands from corporate HQ and teaches their team how to pivot effectively, staying flexible to the ever-evolving retail landscape. Drives compliance with policy and procedure and ensures their team applies those policies consistently. Proactively informs their Regional Sales Manager, retail operations, and senior retail leadership of realities in stores, including wins, opportunities, and obstacles.
People Champion: Always insists on recruiting and hiring top talent and consistently engages their network for referrals. Develops, coaches, and mentors their Store Managers and Store Teams to meet their full potential and run successful stores. Focuses on succession planning and ensures constructive and clear performance coaching to help our team meet challenges and improve as needed.
Merchant: Translates and trains their team on the company’s strategic objectives within product, in-store marketing, community events, shopping experience, etc. Ensures their stores are a delight to shop in and that conversion and customer experience are top-notch.
Retail Leadership is in your blood! You have 5+ years of multi-store leadership experience at the District Manager level and have a proven track record of exceeding sales and metrics targets. Equally adept at sales, people, product, and operations, you’ve trained and developed countless retail staff and store managers to their own accolades and career growth. You understand the fast-moving world of retail, executing flawlessly while staying adaptable and flexible to the unexpected and unforeseen. You’re known for transparent, open communication and enthusiastic leadership. You’re a retail systems veteran with strong technological savvy and can learn new retail systems and applications rapidly. Finally, your grit and resilience are well-honed, and you’re happy to be a road warrior, traveling up to 100% by car, air, or rail as needed.
90,000.00-125,000.00
About Skechers
Skechers (NYSE: SKX), a global, Fortune 500® brand develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Developing comfort technologies is the foundation of all we do – delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,200 company-and third-party-owned retail locations. Headquartered in Southern California, with offices and distribution centers around the globe, Skechers has spent 30 years helping people of all ages look and feel good.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.