Sr Director, Stores
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Description
This position is responsible for enterprise-level leadership, direction, and vision across multiple groups of stores or store types. Serve as an extension of the VP, Corporate Stores & Sales by helping shape store strategy, developing store leaders, and driving performance beyond a single portfolio. Seek to maximize profitability, customer experience, employee experience, sales performance, and operational execution across the store organization.
Essential Functions and Accountabilities:
- Partner with the VP, Corporate Stores & Sales to shape store strategy, priorities, and improvement plans across the organization.
- Lead performance across multiple groups of stores, regions, or store types and drive impact beyond a single assigned portfolio.
- Develop, coach, and support Directors, Stores and Associate Directors, Stores; may have Directors reporting directly to this position.
- Build leadership capability and succession depth across the store organization in anticipation of growth and future openings.
- Partner with the VP and Human Resources on organizational design, workforce planning, leadership selection, succession planning, and performance management to support current and future business needs.
- Ensure leaders create positive work environments that foster engagement, teamwork, personal excellence, and respect for customers.
- Provide leadership, motivation, facilitation, and training that strengthens execution across the store organization.
- Establish a culture of accountability, development, collaboration, recognition, and continuous improvement across store leadership.
Business Performance & Strategy
- Drive sustainable profitability by connecting sales performance, labor, operating discipline, customer experience, and employee experience.
- Use P&L results, financial, sales, labor, and operating measures to identify opportunities, set priorities, and hold leaders accountable for results.
- Lead significant performance improvement efforts and determine strategies needed to improve underperforming stores or markets.
- Translate enterprise goals into clear store strategies and lead change when business performance requires adjustment.
- Partner with executive leadership on business performance, investments, resource needs, and growth opportunities.
- Evaluate trends across stores and markets to anticipate business needs and recommend strategies that strengthen long-term performance.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Collaborate with leaders across the organization to build and execute strategies that support the overall store business.
- Represent store leadership on enterprise issues and initiatives that affect multiple teams or areas of the business.
- Carry the store and sales vision across the organization and influence decisions outside of directly assigned areas.
- Remain close to the business through regular store presence, observation, coaching, and direct engagement with leaders and employees.
Safety:
- Adheres to safety policies and practices and consistently models safe behaviors and risk reduction procedures.
Salary Range:
$118,000- $197,000
Slumberland offers best in class benefits including:
- Competitive wages: Guaranteed minimum $43,000 with potential to earn up to $75,000 in first year.
- Full benefits package including; medical, dental, vision, short term and long term disability and more.
- Up to 3 weeks of paid time off in your first year, plus 24 hours of PTO from first day.
- Generous merchandise discount
- Retirement and Profit Sharing
- Tuition Reimbursement program