District Manager

**District Manager (Chico's/White House Black Market/Soma - New Hampshire/Maine)** Job Ref#: 8793 Brand: Chico's FAS, Inc-Shared Services Category: Retail Other Job Type: Full-time Location:

Northshore Mall, Peabody, MA Employment Type: Full-time With approximately 1,300 boutiques and outlets throughout the U.S., as well as an online presence for each of our brands, it takes sophisticated technology, resources and infrastructure to ensure the continued success of our businesses. From finance and accounting to technology and merchandising careers, we have diverse opportunities available for talented professionals to join our team of nearly 16,000 associates who share our commitment to excellence.

At Chicos FAS, we are **INVESTING IN TALENT** in our Stores organization to fuel our growth. We are looking for **District Sales Managers** with a high passion for fashion, a commitment to building customer and internal team community and demonstrated experience in driving results, to fill our newly created leadership roles. Since 1983, our customers have led the way in everything we do. We are a close-knit sisterhood of three brands, includingChicos, Soma and White House Black Market (WHBM), offering unique products and personalized experiences for our amazing customers. We are poised for growth, bringing innovative solutions, and driving data, scalability, flexibility, and agility. We are excited to bring the best that the industry can offer to join our team NEW roles and career opportunities exist Nationwide at the multi-store leadership level: **Northeast Region:** **District Manager, Central Pennsylvania** **District Manager, Long Island, New York** **District Manager, New Hampshire, Maine District Manager, Rhode Island** **District Manager, West Connecticut** **District Manager, Western New York** **POSITION OBJECTIVE:** This position acquires, develops, promotes and retains industry-leading talent to thrill Customers and grow Community and Sales for Chicos, FAS and each of its Brands. Demonstrates alignment with company strategic priorities and sales growth objectives. Serves as a role model to train and develop talent. Inspires and motivates the sales force, preserves the culture, and drives and executes company and brand strategies to grow the customer file and topline sales at Chicos, FAS. **FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES****:** > **Build and Inspire Talent and Teamwork** > > + Builds Field leadership structure and capacity that aligns talent with business requirements. Develops and executes timely succession strategies to meet business growth. Has bench. + In partnership with HR and Finance, executes short and long-term external recruiting strategies to acquire external industry-leading talent. + Models certification and drives short and long-term leadership training, including onboarding, HR training, and ongoing leadership development. + Mentors leader development, graduation, and placement of senior leader (DMIT) training. + Commits to a national (cross-brand) DOL program to develop leaders at the DSM, and GSM level. Adjusts as necessary to empower future leaders and address business opportunities. + Approval in performance 9-box and responsible to ensure performance and accountability in all levels of management. + Accountable to acquisition and retention metrics, including Management Census and Staffing. > **Build Community and Drive Sales** > > + Community: Builds customer relationships and executes sales strategies for expanding the company's customer base. Participates in market-level Customer Chats and events. Participates in Brand Customer Chat meetings. + Uses Data to drive behavior and evaluates the health of the business through the customer file. Leverages weekly reporting, required market visits, Store Scorecards, KPIs, and team behaviors to assess. Builds and communicates course of action. Partners with supervisor and NSSC leaders to action problems and drive resolution with accountability. + Business Insight: > oProvides weekly context/ color to product sellingreports and competitive climate. Notes pricing, promotions and/ or new productimpact on sales. > > oProvides weekly context to Customer Mindset;identifies and communicates feedback both formally (NPS) and informally (marketfeedback). Provides leadership to input into Selling Council. > > oReal Estate: Identifies and communicates market and store level real estateopportunities that support company growth. Is aware of and communicatesfluctuations in market and center conditions. > > **Executes Operations and Visual with Excellence** > > + Leverages resources and follows standard operating procedures (SOP)s. Meets all policy and legal requirements. Challenges obstacles in alignment with supervisor and NSSC partners. + Drives Visual execution directives and flexing requirements with accountability. Models expectations on store visits and ensures District leaderships capacity to merchandise to drive sales and protect experience. + Meets Payroll to Budget. Identifies complexity or obstacles with Sales Plans or Payroll and communicates concerns. Partners with supervisor and Sr Director of Operations to resolve. > **Manage Vision and Values** > > + Aligns to and participates in Chicos FAS, Brand, and leadership communications and directives, inclusive of Conferences, Meetings, Conference calls, Store Visits, and Store Mail. + Provides opportunity for Talent to participate in presentations and company activities, both in store and at NSSC. This includes but is not limited to Customer Chats, Selling Council, Facebook Life, Product Knowledge, Board Meetings and Visual Walkthroughs **QUALIFICATIONS:** * Bachelor's Degree in a business/marketing concentration, strongly preferred * Outstanding leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. Ability to inspire and delight customers, to build trust with business partners, and to foster a rich, team-oriented environment * 8+ years leadership experience with proven success leading large teams, preferably in a sales organization * Demonstrated success driving results. Expertise in selling strategies and methodologies, strategic planning, operational execution, and employee motivation * Positive and self-motivated with a strong work ethic. Ability to push through obstacles. Sets personal standards high and is known as the ideal model of the expectations that he/ she demands * Passion for the company, our customers, and our product. Consistent knowledge of the fashion industry: well read, high awareness, digitally savvy, socially active (Linked In, Insta-gram, Facebook, Tik Tok) * Ability to identify and communicate macro or micro trends that may positively or negatively impact the business * Ability to travel, work weekends, and attend networking events when the business requires Chicos FAS, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, lactation, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military service, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

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