WE ARE DENIM HEADS.
We love denim. Live and breathe it. It’s in our DNA.
At G-STAR, we see no limit to what denim can do. We believe it can be force of progress and innovation for both people and planet. How? By hiring the most creative, curious and caring minds. People who think beyond fashion. Bringing big ideas to big challenges. Driven by possibility. Those who work hard, make mistakes, but always continue to grow. Denim is in our DNA, our people are our stitching.
Join the denim heads making raw denim!
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of background, identity, or experience.
HERE’S WHAT WE’LL DO TOGETHER:
The District Manager leads G-STAR fullprice stores in the Benelux region to meet or exceed agreed retail sales, sell-through, profit and other KPI targets, maximizing the business for G-STAR. You drive a sales and service culture to optimize the customer shopping-, brand experience and store performance. The focus of the District Manager is to build and sustain a workplace staffed with engaged, high performing Store Managers / teams who create a distinct customer experience representing the G-STAR DNA.
You will lead, guide, coach, and support your direct reports, while collaborating closely with relevant departments at headquarters. This role requires a willingness to travel frequently, as travel to our stores is a significant part of the job.
• Drive, review & analyze the weekly performance of the assigned stores.
• Facilitate and lead a weekly regional trade performance meeting including all of your stores.
• Implement and drive the use of company created sales (planning) tools.
• Improving the performance of your stores while real time monitoring the KPI’s, revenues and P&L.
• Develop & drive weekly and monthly action plans; prioritize activities for stores.
• Responsibility on labor cost accuracy, budget and store team blueprint.
• Provide functional leadership, coaching and support to the store managers, in order to achieve their KPI’s and advance results around talent, operations, merchandising, financial and customer aspects of the business.
• Provide Head of Retail with real time performance insights, trends and business drivers.
• Align the store plans with the national marketing campaigns where relevant.
Team development
• Identify training needs for store staff and provide training solutions either via e-learning or by conducting onsite training (sales & service, business planning, product knowledge, operational excellence). Providing on-the-ground coaching to Store Management and store staff.
• Responsible for management, development and performance of the store managers and store staff to assume leadership roles by overseeing the hiring, training and development on sales techniques, customer service, teamwork and G-STAR DNA.
• Supervise the staff planning in stores and identify opportunities to improve the staffing plan. Right people, right place, right time.
• Ensure and drive a safe and inclusive environment & culture.
• Drive and optimize team engagement.
Store operations
• Ensure all company set policies and procedures are executed, adhered to and always upheld by all store staff.
• Secure and uphold a premium execution of set standards and take action to improve if needed.
• Drive & uphold operational excellence through thorough execution of (weekly) stock takes, RFID, accounting, repairs, petty cash & all key audit points.
• Drive operational excellence of all omnichannel tasks like ship from store, endless aisle, CRM, etc.
• Ensure the execution of visual merchandising standards and the execution of seasonal retail marketing campaigns are aligned with global standards and requirements (including presentation of product, mannequins, windows and signage).
• Assist in all relevant store opening, refit and closure processes.
- Bachelor degree in a relevant field.
- 5+ years of experience as a regional / district sales manager.
- Solid understanding of retail, retail KPI’s, budgeting and forecasting and developing action plans to drive store performance.
- Relevant experience in Apparel, Fashion, and/or Retail industry.
- Strong work ethic: being proactive, dedicated, and willing to go the extra mile to get the job done.
- Leadership, training and coaching skills.
- Willingness to travel (70% business travel).
- High energy, commercial and results-oriented mindset.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch & English.
Located in Amsterdam, our G-STAR HQ offers the chance to work in a diverse environment, with a team of about 300 employees who represent more than 35 nationalities. We all work and collaborate together to be on top of the game and become the number one denim brand!
Beyond a competitive salary, working at G-STAR brings many other perks and exciting opportunities:
- A work environment that offers room for fun, inspiration and innovation,
- A clothing budget to showcase your personal style while representing G-STAR,
- A healthy lunch at our canteen,
- Free access to learning and development platforms Udemy and Goodhabitz,
- Flexibility to work from home 1 day a week,
- A discount on a new bicycle and gym membership.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT:
- We will thoroughly review your CV.
- We have a large expat community at G-STAR, so please apply in English.
- When we hopefully find what we are looking for, we will call you for a chat and if it’s a good fit, we’ll plan our first interview.
- Because we’re very curious how you’d survive a mission impossible, we ask you to prepare a real-life business case in a follow-up interview.
- Having an agile mindset is very important at G-STAR, therefore we ask you to participate in an (online) Learning Agility Assessment.
- When we’re ready to commit to each other, we’ll finalize the terms we’ve discussed and we’ll explain to you how to order your first pair of jeans from the G-STAR employee store. Good luck!