District Manager - Southwest Market

Albertsons Companies•Phoenix, AZ

About The Position

The District Manager is responsible for efficient operations and maximizing sales and profits across retail stores in the assigned area, ensuring compliance with company policies and objectives. The role develops store teams that provide outstanding customer satisfaction and operate clean, fresh, well-stocked stores with merchandising that reflects local neighborhoods. Through coaching and counseling, the District Manager develops store directors and department managers and holds them accountable for fiscal responsibilities and operational commitments. The position oversees financial performance, merchandising execution, local competitive and customer analysis, and people development. It reviews financial and operating reports, helps leaders address performance issues, controls costs, and ensures company and division initiatives are executed effectively. The District Manager also supports staffing and succession planning, maintains relationships with support staff, suppliers, and the community, and ensures stores comply with applicable laws. Extensive travel within the assigned area is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
5–10+ years of retail/category experience.
15 total years of experience in the grocery industry.
5 years of experience managing people.
Working knowledge of procurement procedures, economics, marketing, mathematics, and accounting principles.
Ability to analyze and interpret data from reports and respond with appropriate remedies.
Good organizational and supervisory skills, including the ability to manage large numbers of employees effectively.
Ability to motivate and work with and through others to achieve desired results and ensure execution.
Good verbal, written, and public-speaking communication skills.
Ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of people in person and by telephone and to represent the company’s interests to outside vendors.
Analytical ability and mental alertness to ensure accurate, safe, and thorough completion of work activities.
Ability to concentrate and deal with frequent interruptions.
Ability to travel extensively within the assigned area.

Responsibilities

Develop store teams to achieve and exceed period, quarterly, and yearly financial metrics, including sales, EBITDA, DSI, shrink, and NPS.
Review sales, P&L, and labor reports; evaluate trends, opportunities, and underlying problems; and coach store directors on solutions.
Ensure store directors and department managers understand fiscal responsibilities and are accountable for commitments.
Coach store directors and department managers in budgets, projections, sales forecasts, and other aspects of financial management.
Control operating costs and expenses, labor management and costs, shrink, inventory, and assets to maximize return on investment.
Review and approve store operating commitments with store directors.
Develop store teams to execute merchandising initiatives while remaining locally relevant and maximizing sales and profits.
Review advertising and promotional needs with the marketing team and help develop plans for new or remodeled stores and in-store signing programs.
Monitor and evaluate competitors and work with the marketing team on plans to counteract loss of sales and profits.
Keep abreast of food-industry ideas, innovation, and trends, and assess competition from operational, customer, and cultural perspectives.
Ensure store teams execute company and division merchandising initiatives, coaching them to improve execution and create profitable local merchandising concepts.
Work with store directors to understand customer needs and evaluate opportunities based on local demographics.
Conduct regular store walks with store management to assess merchandising execution, opportunities, ordering, in-stock conditions, stock rotation, product mix, inventory, and price integrity.
Support company, division, and store charitable initiatives to maintain a strong community presence.
Develop store directors and department managers to maximize associate potential and engagement.
Model open-door communication, listening, and a collaborative work environment.
Ensure accountability for staffing, interviewing and selection, future-leader development, training, performance coaching and management, succession planning, change management, and recognition and rewards.
Manage staffing for the assigned area and develop store directors to fulfill staffing and succession-planning responsibilities in their stores.
Develop and maintain positive working relationships with store support staff, suppliers, and the community.
Ensure stores in the assigned area comply with federal, state, and local laws and maintain good working relationships with relevant agencies.