Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent nearly 30 years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we do—delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

With international business representing over half of our total sales, we have product available in more than 170 countries and significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,000 Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as well as through a network of third-party partners.

A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR GLOBAL LEADER IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY.

This position is based out of Sacramento, CA.

JOB PURPOSE-

The Skechers Retail Team obsessively drives outstanding sales gains, fueling growth and expansion for the Skechers brand worldwide! The District Sales Manager is a stores’ expert who passionately leads and develops a talented team of store managers to deliver exceptional store results. This energetic leader is talent, product and sales focused and has the positivity, resilience and grit to solve anything, even on the tough days. The District Sales Manager loves the broad scope of their role and thrives on all the ways they impact our business, our stores and our people!

ESSENTIAL JOB RESULTS-

•       Entrepreneur: Drives their district to meet and exceed sales and metrics goals and guides their team in addressing and correcting store performance challenges. Ensures their team is proactively building their sales and conversion by localizing and tailoring their assortment and merchandising to their customers’ wants and needs, with the partnership and oversight of their regional sales manager, retail store operations, senior retail leadership and the buying and P&A team. Maximizes profitability and a healthy balance sheet by keeping costs and loss in line with goals.

•       Expert: Leverages their deep wealth of retail knowledge and their internal partners to solve problems and remove obstacles for their team, regardless of operational challenges or circumstances beyond their control. Brilliantly shifts gears to respond to sudden changes or demands from corporate HQ and teaches their team how to pivot effectively, staying flexible to the ever evolving retail landscape. Drives compliance with policy and procedure and ensures their team applies those policies consistently. Proactively informs their Regional Sales Manager, retail operations and senior retail leadership of realities in stores, including wins, opportunities and obstacles.

•       People Champion: Always insists on recruiting and hiring top talent and consistently enagages their network for referrals. Develops, coaches and mentors their Store Managers and Store Teams to meet their full potential and run successful stores. Focuses on succession planning and ensures constructive and clear performance coaching to help our team meet challenges and improve as needed. Enthusiastically builds morale, champions their teams’ ideas and displays transparent, open communication to ensure an excellent employee experience and enagagement. Leverages and collaborates with their talent partners to elevate succession, morale, acquisition of external talent, internal career growth and performance coaching.

•       Merchant: Translates and trains their team on the company’s strategic objectives within product, in-store marketing, community events, shopping experience, etc. Ensures their stores are a delight to shop and that conversion and customer experience are top-notch. Partners with their Regional Sales Manager to assess and develop community events that drive sales. Assesses their local market and competitors, sharing and escalating feedback with their Regional Sales Manager.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES-

•       Leads a team of Store Managers and a network of up to 25 stores.

JOB REQUIREMENTS-

Retail Leadership is in your blood! You’ve led a multi-store retail territory and have a proven track record at exceeding sales and metrics targets. Equally adept at sales, people, product and operations, you’ve trained and developed countless retail staff and store managers to their own accolades and career growth. You insist on solid plans and long-term strategies, yet still understand the fast-moving world of retail, executing flawlessly while staying adaptable and flexible to the unexpected and unforeseen. You leverage and value your business partners across all functions and will do whatever it takes to build, maintain or grow exceptional relationships to drive your business forward and support your teams. You’re known for transparent, open communication and enthusiastic leadership that your team appreciates and you have the retention numbers to prove it. You’re a retail systems veteran with strong technological savvy and learn new retail systems and applications rapidly. Finally, your grit and resilience are well-honed and you’re happy to be a road warrior, traveling up to 100% by car, air or rail as needed.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE-

•       Bachelors Degree preferred, though not required.

•       5+ years of experience in multi-unit retail leadership; prior District Level experience strongly preferred. Deep expertise in retail sales, product merchandising, store operations and talent development.

•       Strong, demonstrable expertise in retail systems, technology and applications.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary range for this position is $90,000 - $125,000/year