District Manager - Retail Execution

Summary
Retail Execution District Manager

The Retail Execution District Manager leads frontline execution within a defined territory, overseeing a team of retail associates responsible for in-store merchandising, sales support, and program delivery. This role ensures consistent execution of client standards through hands‑on coaching, store‑level engagement, and day‑to‑day operational management.

The role is focused on execution excellence, including staffing, scheduling, training, and performance management of hourly or field‑based teams, while maintaining strong relationships with store leadership and ensuring retail objectives are achieved.

Responsibilities

• Retail execution:
  • Oversees in‑store program execution, merchandising, and audit activities to meet client standards
  • Ensures product placement, shelf standards, and merchandising compliance
• People leadership:
  • Directly manages, coaches, and develops retail associates through field engagement and structured feedback
  • Supports hiring, scheduling, training, and performance management of frontline teams
• Results and execution management:
  • Monitors execution through reporting and store visits; addresses performance gaps through coaching and training
  • Ensures timely completion of retail projects and coverage expectations
• Client and store relationships:
  • Builds relationships with store leadership and client partners to support execution objectives
• Operational and administrative excellence:
  • Manages schedules, reporting, and expenses aligned to territory expectations

Qualifications

• Education Requirements:
  
  High school education
• Experience Requirements: 2-4 years experience in relevant field
• Travel requirement: 30% travel expected

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled

The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Responsibilities

• Retail execution:
  • Oversees in‑store program execution, merchandising, and audit activities to meet client standards
  • Ensures product placement, shelf standards, and merchandising compliance
• People leadership:
  • Directly manages, coaches, and develops retail associates through field engagement and structured feedback
  • Supports hiring, scheduling, training, and performance management of frontline teams
• Results and execution management:
  • Monitors execution through reporting and store visits; addresses performance gaps through coaching and training
  • Ensures timely completion of retail projects and coverage expectations
• Client and store relationships:
  • Builds relationships with store leadership and client partners to support execution objectives
• Operational and administrative excellence:
  • Manages schedules, reporting, and expenses aligned to territory expectations

Qualifications

• Education Requirements:
  
  High school education
• Experience Requirements: 2-4 years experience in relevant field
• Travel requirement: 30% travel expected

Supervisor Responsibility

Direct Reports:
Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company‑wide processes, tools and resources

Indirect Reports:
May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports

Required Knowledge and Skills

Retail execution and merchandising fundamentals

• Understanding of in‑store retail standards, including planograms,…