at VF Corporation in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Position Summary
In this role, you will ensure Timberland’s store experience is an accurate reflection of our culture and brand. You will be a trusted member of the Retail team reporting to the Senior Director, Retail, and join a leadership team charged with elevating our full-price and outlet store channel by elevating and driving the store experience. You are both strategical and tactical, tasked with ensuring Timberland’s retail experience is truly differentiated and deeply imprinted on customers. You are an inspirational team leader and mentor with a contagious – dare we say near obsessive – focus on delighting customers, both internal and external.
Join the Timberland Family
Founded in 1973, Timberland® is a global outdoor lifestyle brand based in Stratham, New Hampshire, with international headquarters in Switzerland and Shanghai. Best known for its original yellow boot designed for the harsh elements of New England, Timberland today offers a full range of footwear, apparel, and accessories for people who value purposeful style and share the brand’s passion for enjoying – and protecting – nature.
At the heart of the Timberland brand is the core belief that a greener future is a better future. This comes to life through a decades-long commitment to make products responsibly, protect the outdoors, and strengthen communities around the world.
Timberland is a VF Corporation brand. VF is one of the world’s leading apparel, footwear, and accessories companies with socially and environmentally responsible operations and a commitment to deliver innovative products and create long-term value for its employees, customers, and shareholders.
To learn more about Timberland and share in our mission to step outside, work together and make it better, visit one of our stores, www.timberland.com , or follow us @timberland (http://www.timberland.com) .
District Manager, Central (Timberland Americas)
How You Will Make a Difference
What you will do:
+ Lead and maintain a positive and inspiring work environment.
+ Drive the training strategy for the district accountable for the overall leadership and people management. This includes store staffing, proactively recruiting and hiring top talent, training and development, scheduling guidelines, performance management, role clarity, succession and career planning, coaching, diversity and employee relations.
+ Lead the store management of between 10 – 15 stores to help drive a best-in-class consumer experience, achieve sales and profitability targets and ensure long-term business growth in accordance with the company’s strategic intent, core values and brand philosophy.
+ Analyze business performance against marketplace/stores and create and implement action plans to maximize profitability, productivity and business growth. Accountable for key indicators such as Target Sales, Conversion, Units Per Transaction (UPT), visual merchandising standards, shrink, controllable expenses, payroll and hours management, employee turnover and retention (all at the district level).
+ Develop constructive and positive working relationships with all business partners and manage cost center expenses by managing district travel, payroll, and contest budgets.
+ Coordinate all store openings and closings in partnership with store operations in accordance with established processes.
+ Participates in corporate projects, committees, and initiatives.
What success looks like :
With your skills in continuous improvement, decision making, planning and organizing and being customer focused, your talent for collaborating with communication, leveraging cultural diversity will contribute to the team’s success. You are also adaptable using applied learning; you initiate action and have high work standards.
Free to Be, Inclusion and Diversity
As a purpose-led, performance-driven company, we strive to foster a culture of belonging based on respect, connection, openness, and authenticity. We are committed to building and maintaining a workplace that celebrates the diversity of our associates, allowing them to bring their authentic selves to work every day.
Skill for Success
Years of Related Professional Experience: A minimum of 2 years of experience in footwear merchandising, product creation, buying and/or retail in a vertical, multi-brand or digital environment.
Formal education and subsequent undergraduate/graduate degrees, such as a bachelor’s degree, preferably in a related field, are nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.
What we expect you already know/have :
As the ideal candidate, you are a savvy, consumer-obsessed, strategic, and operationally minded retail business builder with a passion for leading, inspiring, and growing high-performing retail teams. You will be measured against the following:
+ Uncompromising customer focus
+ As a brand beacon for Timberland, you will have a deep and personal appreciation for the brand and an almost instinctual sense of the Timberland “adventurous doer” customer: where they live, work, play and how they discover and engage with the customer at every brand touchpoint
+ Growth experience
+ Previous experience shaping a 4-wall full-price business, for a consumer-focused omni-channel retailer
+ A track record of growing businesses with strong financial discipline and bottom-line orientation
+ A track record of helping companies upgrade processes and implement new ways of working and best practices to support growth
+ Leadership
+ A low ego coupled with a sense of urgency; you lead by example and inspire others to get the job done regardless of job title or rank
+ Analytical and data-driven; able to forecast and analyze trends, review projections, and make sound business decisions based on data
+ The leadership ability to work across the organization (Marketing, Merchandising, Finance, Digital Technology, etc.) to ensure retail operations are seamlessly integrated into the overall organization
What we will teach you :
+ To thrive in a supportive feedback-based culture where respect and integrity guide us in what we do
+ How to grow, both professionally and personally with tailored training – from a thorough induction to ongoing online and face-to-face training
+ Be part of an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds, lifestyles and nationalities love working together
+ To inspire others to step outside and make it better, make a difference by using purposeful actions first and encourage others to join you, believe in collaboration and work to create positive transformations, and initiate and propose bold ideas for innovation, development and progress.
What’s In It for You
We’re in the business of unleashing human potential, driven by the ideas, energy, and commitment of our people. That’s why we offer comprehensive benefits that encourage mental, physical, and financial well-being for all VF associates. When it comes to benefits, we’re the total package. Go to MyVFBenefits (https://www4.benefitsolver.com/benefits/BenefitSolverView?page\name=signon&co\_num=30716&co\affid=vfcorp) and click “Looking to Join VF?” to learn more.
Our Parent Company, VF Corporation
VF is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies connecting people to the lifestyles, activities, and experiences they cherish through our family of iconic outdoor, active and workwear brands. At the heart of our journey lies our company-wide purpose: We power movements of sustainable and active lifestyles for the betterment of people and our planet. This is our purpose. It’s the reason we come to work every day. It’s a commitment shared by our global associates across all brands. Our purpose unites us and leads us to pursue our goals together.
