District Manager - Eastern Canada

THE TEAM

JD Sports is a sports-fashion retail company with the incentive to inspire the emerging generation of globally minded consumers through a connection to the universal culture of sport, music and fashion. Established in 1981, the JD Group is a leading global omnichannel retailer of Sports, Fashion, and Outdoor brands. With our retail stores expanding and evolving all throughout Canada, The Group is continuously finding and developing talent that adds to the inclusive and diverse work culture. JD continuously and successfully sets the global standard for retail experience best through the unique delivery of the world’s most authentic brands to the market. Our commitment to showcasing brands in a premium environment and stores remain a key part of the JD strategy.

THE ROLE

Our Retail team is looking for a District Manager - Eastern Canada to join our Toronto Office! This role will be responsible for the growth of district retail sales by demonstrating sales achievements in line with forecasted targets. District Manager - Eastern Canada will deliver best in class store operations, team development, brand presentation, and customer experience.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build strong and effective cross functional relationships within the wider organization, ensuring that the commercial and operations teams work in partnership with buying, merchandising, warehouse operations, marketing, multichannel, finance, property and human resources
• Ensure effective communication and be the key interface between the district and Retail Sales and Operations Director.
• Collate data across the district for presentation to Retail Sales and
• Ensure budgets and manageable costs are controlled and that net profits are met at store, area and district level.
• Analyze complex data and deliver clear conclusions and actions to a diverse audience of senior leaders, peers and subordinates
• Support Retail Sales and Operations Director with the execution of the agreed property strategy for the district, including the opening and closing of stores.

Operations Director

• Ensure compliance in all areas of operational activity to protect the business from legal exposure and financial risk e.g. Profit protection, H&S
• Work with the area team in providing strategy, guidance &; coaching to achieve within the district.
• Drive business performance through visual merchandising, KPI management, sales growth and cost effective operational execution

People and Talent Management

• Build, develop and coach a high performing regional retail team, dedicated to quality, innovation, operational excellence and best practice across the district
• Develop and lead a team with appropriate capabilities to execute against plan and also ability to scale those capabilities with the business as it grows.
• Hire top talent and develop regional succession strategy to ensure

Leadership Continuity

• Drive accountability with the regional team on sales goals and budget management to achieve plan with regular reviews of the P&L and appropriately managing costs (payroll, store refits etc.)

Customer

• Cascade and ensure rollout of early careers campaigns in the region that drive diversity and inclusion and improve our employer value proposition to attract talent to the group.
• Present the Brand in line with global standards.
• Ensure retail excellence in operations standards, which reflect global JD guidelines to ensure efficiency of operations and a positive customer experience

Skills/Experience Required:

• Analytical and methodical approach to problem solving
• Motivated, passionate and committed to achieving a customer centric culture of excellence
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and people management skills
• Exceptional leadership skills
• Excellent communication skills with the proven ability to lead diverse teams to deliver tangible results
• Senior Management experience in a complex retail environment with the ability to motivate and lead teams to achieve tangible results
• Ability to establish and maintain trust and support of management and colleagues
• Proven ability to influence at strategic and tactical levels across a broad spectrum of functions and levels of seniority

THE PERKS

• Travel perks – Includes exclusive hotel deals in major cities (Vancouver, Toronto, NYC, Los Angeles)
• Store discount – Includes staff discount, family & friends discount
• Benefits – Includes medical, optical, and dental
• Kitchen/ lunchroom area – Our in-house kitchen area includes communal snacks, hot stove, dishwasher, microwave, fridge, and coffee machine
• Flexible work environment – Includes hybrid work
• Paid time off – Includes vacation, sick days, and holidays