District Manager, Gulf Coast

District Manager

Reports to:

Senior Director of Retail

Job Code: 10582

Our Brand mission is to inspire confidence and optimism, inviting everyone to shine bright and stand out. Our Brand vision statement is:  Create Your Sunshine, A Resort State of Mind . Our Brand Equities are:
Casual Glamour, Sunny & Spirited, and Charmingly Disarming.

The District Manager’s ultimate responsibility is to see that the stores assigned to their region district are profitable and well-staffed with A+ talent and are operating with an A+ consumer experience. The measure of doing this well will result in the achievement of the budgeted net sales, gross profit, and direct contribution of the district for the year. The District Manager must react to the business trends and do this in a manner that is consistent with the company’s Leadership Qualities and Core Values.

The District Manager is part of the Senior Leadership Team, and as such is responsible for training and developing the company’s future leaders.

• Recruit, hire, train, and retain A+ talent
• Operate profitable stores assigned in district
• Ensure that each employee operates within our selling culture and store experience expectations
• Deliver the highest level of excellence for our customer experience in our stores
• Develop future leaders and identify candidates for a health bench of management
• Collaborate effectively with key leaders and colleagues in the retail channel as well as those outside of the retail channel
• Always operate consistently with our Core Values and Leadership Qualities

• Achieve or exceed Direct Contribution & Budgeted Net Sales
• Ability to effectively manage payroll
• Train, reinforce and utilize KPIs in daily conversations with stores
• Understand financial results, annual budget and utilization of information to impact business favorably
• Apply and foster strategic and critical thinking to the overall business and talent
• Have strong knowledge of product by season and develop strong productive relationships with Planning & Allocation to support store needs and trends

• Educate and reinforce the Lilly’s Resort Chic lifestyle
• Embrace, teach and implement the Lilly Pulitzer selling culture
• Inspire and hold teams accountable to deliver an exceptional in-store experience consistent with company culture
• Create an optimistic, high-energy store and district team leadership
• Conduct effective store walk throughs and train Store Managers to conduct the same
• Embrace, exhibit and uphold the Company’s Core Values and Core Leadership Qualities

• Lead through adversity
• Win as a team mentality across all points of the company
• Keen oversight and financial management including control of payroll and expense budgets
• Enhance store culture by engaging with and inspiring others through Lilly Pulitzer’s Core Values and Core Leadership Qualities

• Foster and encourage building teams and skills within those DORs.

• Provide the team with actionable, regular and effective feedback
• Consistency in utilization of company training tools
• Create strong succession in store and company
• Have strong market knowledge and high expectations of SMs to be market savvy as well

• Create a strong line of communication with corporate partners and the Operating Committee as appropriate
• Collaborate effectively with cross functional partners and colleagues
• Maintain the integrity of the store inventory
• Maintain exceptional visual and operational standards as set by the Visual and Retail Operations teams

• A four-year college degree is required.
• At least 4+ years of experience supervising at least 7 stores in the women’s fashion or luxury retail industry, preferably with a lifestyle brand, are required.
• This experience must be in store operations.
• Full understanding of specialty retail, including business development, visual merchandising, and store operations.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem…