District Leader-maurices (Iowa) - maurices

Brand Overview:

maurices is a women’s apparel retailer that celebrates feel good fashion for real life. It’s committed to its service with style promise and offering affordable fashion that takes women from workday to weekend and all of life’s adventures in between. With inclusive sizing from 0-24, maurices is famous for its versatile styles including key categories such as denim, dresses, tops, and more. Established in 1931, maurices operates 935 stores in communities across North America. Discover even more fashion at maurices.com.

Ready to apply? We currently have an opportunity for a District Leader-maurices (Iowa) to join our team located at our Field Mgmt-District 411-maurices.

Ready to help bring feel good fashion for real life™ to hometowns across North America?  Join our family of amazing individuals in our corporate office in Duluth, Minnesota, ranked one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2019. Since 1931, we’ve helped women look and feel their best every day — making maurices not only a special place to shop, but a great place to work and connect. Apply today!

Position Overview:

The District Leader is responsible for the overall success of their district (VA, WV, KY, OH).  The District Leader (DL) is responsible for cultivating an environment of genuine customer connection, building strong teams and directing all activities required to drive sales and maximize results in the district.    

Key Accountabilities:  Sales Performance, Profit Performance, Talent (quality and succession plans), Brand Leadership

Performance requirements

• Owns profitability and business results for district:
  • Directs all activities required to achieve sales, inventory, payroll and operational goals within a geographic market.
  • Challenges and develops Store Leaders to accomplish objectives.
  • Sets clear expectations, manages priorities, and monitors progress in achieving company goals.
  • Forecasts and analyzes business trends to impact results.
• Serves as a brand ambassador and ensures a customer and associate centric culture across all channels. 
  • Ensures maurices customer service standards and programs are learned and modeled.
  • Builds multi-channel business and maximizes tools to better serve the customer.
  • Attends external events / creates external networks as a way to spread the word about maurices and “live” one of the company’s core values of community support.

• Ensures the continued vibrancy/success of his/her region, maurices through talent acquisition and management.
  • Assesses, develops, educates and mentors store leaders in all areas of responsibility.
  • Fosters a positive, motivating and challenging working environment by inspiring field leaders and capitalizing on individual strengths and talents, retains top talent to build bench.
  • Prepares and conducts performance assessments, recognizes performance gaps and coaches associates to take appropriate action.  Holds store leaders accountable for business results.
  • Selects recruits and hires strong leaders; has solid succession plans in place at all times and ensures store leaders receive a thorough onboarding.
• Maintains operationally strong stores and execute company directives.
  • Coaches store leaders on standards for effective execution of workload planning, scheduling and all operational standards.
  • Ensures stores meet visual presentation expectations and are clean and shoppable for our customers.
  • Organizes, delegates, prioritizes and ensures leaders meet deadlines. 
  • Trains and follows up on operational and asset protection strategies in order to improve productivity and reduce shrink.

Work Experience and education requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred.
• Retail Management experience required with multi-store supervisory experience preferred.
• Must have a strong interest in fashion and product knowledge.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Business and financial acumen including strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and challenge teams to achieve results.
• Strong problem solving/conflict resolution skills and the ability to make sound decisions.
• Diligence and the ability to persevere in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Basic skills in Microsoft Office.

Unique Working Conditions:

• Extensive travel required (70%)

Physical Requirements

• Able to reach, push, pull, stand, squat and bend for up to 4 hours or longer as necessary.
• Able to operate and use all equipment necessary to run the store.
• Able to operate computerized register system.
• Able to move or handle merchandise throughout the store weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Work varied hours/days as business dictates.

Location:

Field Mgmt-District 411-maurices

Position Type:

Regular/Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all personnel actions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.