District Manager, Stores

About the Role

Kohl’s is currently hiring District Managers to join our store teams in locations across the country. As a District Manager you will provide leadership for 15-20 stores and own the execution of Kohl’s store priorities including: driving sales, enhancing the customer experience, managing profitability and shortage and developing your team. 


What You'll Do

Responsibilities include: 
 

• Driving sales, profit and productivity while meeting payroll, expense and shortage goals
• Teaching, training and developing your team
• Delivering consistent merchandise and visual presentation standards in every store
• Communicating inventory needs and business opportunities to appropriate partners
• Achieving operational best practices, OMNI execution and driving clearance sell through
• Engaging in market analysis to ensure an exceptional product assortment
• Enhancing the customer experience throughout your district 
• Writing and delivering reviews for Store Managers, and overseeing the review process for all other managers and associates to ensure effective feedback is provided
• Promoting associate engagement and supporting manager retention
• Proactively addressing associate relations concerns in partnership with HR team
   

Who You Are

You have 8-10 years progressive retail experience, a minimum of 3-5 years store management experience (preferably in a high volume, big box environment) and 2-5 years successful multi-unit leadership experience. A Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline is preferred. 

Additionally, some capabilities that will contribute to your success in this role:

Results Driven

• You are focused on critical strategic priorities and setting clear goals. You consistently monitor results and ensure follow-through on commitments, driving execution and seizing opportunities to raise the bar.

Developing Talent & Effective Teams

• You have a demonstrated commitment and passion for developing talent and drive a culture of high-performance and continuous development. You create and support multi-year succession planning to meet the long-term needs of the overall business. 

Leading the Business with Vision & Strategy

• You have a strategic vision and can articulate the priorities of the organization in a clear and compelling way that engages others and ensures that leaders at all levels maintain focus.

Influencing & Building Networks

• Through strong interpersonal written and verbal communication skills, you are able to foster effective relationships, collaborate seamlessly, and navigate diverse communication scenarios at various levels within the organization.

Business Acumen

• You have an expert knowledge of business operations and financial management and can effectively lead initiatives that drive business growth and success.

Adaptability & Agile Thinking

• You have an adept ability to hold multiple perspectives in mind and incorporate opposing perspectives to drive change and make strategic decisions.

Ability for daytime travel (up to 80%) and overnight travel (approx. 30%) is required for this role.