Kroger
DISTRICT MANAGER (Finance)
Desired
- Bachelor's Degree
- High initiative
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Leadership skills training
- District Manager training- Spend time in stores, leading store leadership in implementation and execution of merchandising and operations initiatives
- Interact regularly with division President to ensure that divisions priorities are aligned with total company direction
- Work with store leadership to identify opportunities in the assigned store, develop solutions and action plans to ensure implementation
- Achieve/exceed sales goals, as well as targeted goals (e.g., safety, shrink)
- Discuss store-level financial performance including budgets (e.g., sales, shrink, labor expenses, and other expenses) and other targeted goals (e.g., safety) with store leadership in P/L meetings
- Achieve return on investment on approved capital projects and assist in identifying potential capital projects opportunities in geographic area of responsibility
- Understand the competitive landscape within the district and provide feedback to the field merchandisers
- Partner with field staff to enable departments to achieve their financial goals and ensure communication, implementation and execution of corporate plans
- Provide upward feedback on the communication and effectiveness of company merchandising, operations, training, human resources, and change management initiatives to division/corporate staff
- Promote and support strong store relationships with the community
- Demonstrate inclusionary leadership, role models friendly behaviors and expect inclusive and friendly behavior from associates and support the efforts of the store and district Our Promise teams
- Counsel and assist store leaders in the development of assistant store leaders and store associates
- Coach store leaders, provides candid feedback, identifies and trains store leaders with district manager potential
- Work with appropriate HR resources to ensure the adequate recruiting, hiring, training, development and evaluation of store leadership
- Supervise and coach direct reports on the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation