District Manager

Job Summary

This role manages the alignment of business initiatives and the support segment strategy by identifying, aligning, and managing interdependencies across implementation portfolio ; assessing capacity and resources and adjusting prioritization and assignments based on strategy; ensuring support segment expertise is incorporated into business initiatives; designing initiative operationalization within support segment frameworks ; and providing guidance to ensure the target associate and customer experience is identified and represented throughout the portfolio. Manages and deploys leadership methodology and operational processes and procedures across multiple functions by evaluating key business components in order to assess current performance standards; identifying areas of improvement; developing improvement solutions; ensuring methodologies, processes, and procedures are simple and executable with manageable roll out plans; consulting with cross-functional teams to gain alignment on improvement solutions; ensuring methodologies, processes, and procedures are sustainable for future use; and communicating changes and solutions to key stakeholders in order to gain buy-in.

Essential Job Duties

• Monitor, assess and evaluate regional performance through sales, operating cost, inventory, shrink, trend, and other data analysis. Provide advice and counsel to Regional Managers, District Managers and Area Managers on appropriate action plans and activities to meet operational and financial goals.
• Reviews and interprets financial and operational information as appropriate. Coordinates periodic financial and/or operational analyses and prepares financial/business reports for Store Operations on a regular basis.
• Facilitate new store development process by working with real estate, construction, merchandising, HR and other functional departments to ensure operational commitments are met.
• Designs strategies and action plans to increase profits and makes recommendations for operational improvement.
• Implements and recommends policies and procedures that increase operational effectiveness and maximize long-term Daiso's stores performance.
• Partners with Chief Operations Officer to develop, implement and measure strategies to both run the business while also transforming the business for field operations.
• Positions leadership and Regional General Managers to lead through a period of unprecedented change.
• Serves as a change agent with a willingness to be a force for positive internal disruption to position the organization for new ways of working.
• Displays actions that inspire confidence that this role has the capacity to impact the momentum that the entire stores operations must have for the future.
• Leads through influence.
• Student of the business and the U.S. operation

Required Education, Certifications and Work-Related Experience

• Associates or vocational degree, or relevant experience.
• Bachelors in related preferred but not required.
• 6-8 Years’ experience in the retail successfully operating multi facility retail operations in the U.S.
• 2-4 years as a people manager in the retail stores.

Job Scope/Impact

• Has the authority to direct the employee’s daily work activities. Has the direct responsibility to undertake the following employment actions: hiring, termination, corrective action, and performance reviews.
• Decisions have significant, broad implications for the management and operation of a major department or multiple departments. Job contributes to decisions on the overall strategy and direction of DAISO.
• Problems are broad, complex, and abstract, often involving company-wide issues. Must develop solutions using substantial creativity.
• Results are defined; set own goals and determine how to accomplish results with some guidelines. The supervisor/manager provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Has full responsibility for planning, monitoring, and managing a departmental budget.
• Regular contact with others both inside and outside DAISO. Results have significant broad implications for the management and operations of a major department or multiple departments.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

• Leads by influence and example and demonstrates a mindset of accountability.
• Strong Financial and Business Acumen
• Ability to coach both up and down in the organization.
• Make decisions with the ability to communicate what the decision was based on to support.
• Strong Communications skills
• Demonstrates a strategic approach to all aspects of the role.