District Manager

2 months ago


Kingston, Canada Talize Full time

**About Us**:
Talize is a proudly Canadian owned and operated national for-profit retailer offering quality resale apparel and housewares at unbeatable prices. As Canada’s newest and most unique shopping experience we offer new, like-new, and vintage items all under one roof. That means fantastic deals on brand names and designer fashions, and housewares

**The Role**:
The Role of District Manager is to support our stores and be the first communicator between the store support center teams and the stores. The District Manager will travel between stores 60%-80% of the time in between stores (4 out of 5 days/week) with 20% dedicated to project support, store efficiency review and store reporting. In this role you will drive for Sales and Profit through our process driven organization while managing people effectively. As a District Manager you will play an important role contributing to our operational success and growth of stores.

As a District Manager for Ontario East you will be travelling between our Peterborough, Kingston, Belleville, Whitby, and Oshawa store. You will also be responsible for any new store opening for this district.

**You will be working on**:

- Building the brand
- Maximizing profits while focusing on EBITDA results
- Identifying opportunities by studying P&L and KPIs
- Attracting, retaining, and developing leaders
- Developing and maintaining customer friendly stores
- Building bench strength
- Ensure compliance to SOPs and company policies and procedures.

**Duties And Responsibilities**:
**Leadership and People Development**:

- Motivate team through a compelling vision and direction to encompass Talize Core Values.
- Form partnerships with peers and key business partners
- Lead consistent store visit evaluations and provide proactive feedback.
- Communicate clear expectations and hold the store teams accountable to achieving all brand, performance, and behavioral standards. Conduct productive conference calls & team meetings.
- Proactively seek personal learning and development opportunities.
- Attract, retain, and develop talent for the district, in partnership with the Recruitment team.
- Develop an effective talent mapping for your stores and create individual development, succession, and talent plan. Train store management in creating development plans.
- Recommend and approve all salaries and wage changes in conjunction with conducting and approving performance reviews for direct reports.
- Consistently achieving store labor standards
- Recognize performance issues in a timely manner and partner with the HR Business Partnerto develop action plans for resolution.
- Oversee the effective implementation of the company culture, human resource policies, procedures, and practices.
- Ensure that all staff have an orientation to the organization and that appropriate training is provided.
- Coach and motivate employees to seek opportunities and achieve high standards while building morale and bench strength.
- Partner with HR to ensure all processes remain compliant with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and other governmental regulations. Establish a positive, healthy and safe work environment in accordance with all appropriate legislation and regulations.

Visual Merchandising
- Ensure that all visual directives are executed seamlessly and within scheduled time frame and allotted budget.
- Maintain extensive knowledge of product assortment and key items.
- Communicate current trends and competitor strategies in the market.
- Through partnership with the General Managers, ensure that stores are merchandised as per company directive and have sufficient inventory levels.
- Analyze, identify, and capitalize upon opportunities for increasing revenue and profitability.

Driving Results
- Establish and lead the execution of district business strategies to drive store sales and profit results that maximize performance and achievement of sales plan and goals.
- Participate in the annual budget process to include; sales, controllable expenses etc.
- Communicate business needs for the district and company that play an active role in driving results.
- Plan and execute effective, productive store visits reviewing store performance, production, visual merchandising, store operations and key-business initiatives.
- Hold General Managers accountable for execution of all operational responsibilities and instill a high standard for compliance.

Drive Sales, Profitability and Gross Margin Growth
- Responsible to drive district sales and profit plans to budget through successful leadership, organizational plans, customer service and execution of all field operations strategies, consistently across all stores.
- Know and manage the business by effectively using KPIs such as sales reports, assessing departmental results, and developing specific actions directly related to business development and growth, consistently across all stores.
- Lead and direct the development of store le


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