About the Role

In this role, 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

• Drive sales, profit and productivity while meeting payroll, expense and shortage goals

• Support and execute the team vision, set clear objectives, assign and direct work, manage performance, and maintain open communications to create an effective work environment

• Deliver consistent merchandise and visual presentation standards in every store

• Communicate inventory needs and business opportunities to appropriate partners

• Achieve operational best practices and OMNI execution, and drive clearance sell-through

• Engage in market analysis to ensure an exceptional product assortment

• Enhance the customer experience throughout your district

• Write and deliver reviews for Store Managers and oversee the review process for all other managers and associates to ensure effective feedback is provided

• Promote associate engagement and support manager retention

• Proactively address associate relations concerns in partnership with the HR team

• Focus on critical strategic priorities and setting clear goals

• Consistently monitor results and ensure follow-through on commitments, driving execution and seizing opportunities to raise the bar

• Create and support multi-year succession planning to meet the long-term needs of the overall business

• Articulate the organization's priorities in a clear and compelling way that engages others and ensures that leaders at all levels maintain focus

What Skills You Have

Required

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work with multiple business partners at various levels within the organization

• Proven success with the growth and development of internal talent

• Demonstrated ability to drive results through partnerships to achieve high-level results

• Significant retail business acumen with specific strengths related to merchandising presentation, merchandising assortments, store operations and competitive analysis

• Adept ability to consider multiple perspectives and incorporate opposing perspectives to drive change and make strategic decisions.

• Ability to foster effective relationships, collaborate seamlessly and navigate diverse communication scenarios at various levels within the organization

• Ability for daytime travel (up to 80%) and overnight travel (approx. 30%)

  Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline

• 8-10 years of progressive retail experience

• Minimum 3-5 years store management experience in a high volume, big box environment

• 2-5 years of successful multi-unit leadership experience