DISTRICT MANAGER

The Kroger Co.•Glen Allen, VA

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About The Position

The District Manager is responsible for ensuring district stores exceed customer expectations in ease of shopping, service, variety, freshness, cleanliness, food safety, and regulatory compliance. The role spends time in stores coaching, training, and developing store leadership teams, ensuring execution of merchandising and operational plans, and providing feedback on their effectiveness. The District Manager is accountable for meeting or exceeding district and division sales budgets, sales growth and market share goals, and controllable expense targets. The role also executes and establishes accountability for all segments of the Company Strategy while demonstrating the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Any merchandising experience.
At least 2 years of experience working as a multi-unit supervisor in a retail setting.
Must have held a store manager position within the company or a high-level company management position.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree.
High initiative.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
Leadership skills training.
District Manager training.

Responsibilities

Spend time in stores, leading store leadership in implementing and executing merchandising and operations initiatives.
Interact regularly with the division President to ensure division priorities align with total company direction.
Work with store leadership to identify opportunities in assigned stores and develop solutions and action plans to ensure implementation.
Achieve or exceed sales goals and targeted goals, including safety and shrink.
Discuss store-level financial performance, including sales, shrink, labor, and other expenses, as well as other targeted goals such as safety, with store leadership in P/L meetings.
Achieve return on investment on approved capital projects and help identify potential capital project opportunities in the geographic area of responsibility.
Understand the district’s competitive landscape and provide feedback to field merchandisers.
Partner with field staff to help departments achieve financial goals and ensure communication, implementation, and execution of corporate plans.
Provide division and corporate staff with upward feedback on company merchandising, operations, training, human resources, and change management initiatives.
Promote and support strong store relationships with the community.
Demonstrate inclusionary leadership, model friendly behaviors, expect inclusive and friendly behavior from associates, and support store and district Our Promise teams.
Counsel and assist store leaders in developing assistant store leaders and store associates.
Coach store leaders, provide candid feedback, and identify and train store leaders with district manager potential.
Work with appropriate HR resources to ensure adequate recruiting, hiring, training, development, and evaluation of store leadership.
Supervise and coach direct reports, complete performance reviews, and provide feedback.
Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.