District Manager

Join Our Team as a District Manager at Plato's Closet!

Do you enjoy leading teams, having autonomy in your position, holding people accountable to KPIs, working with retail stores, merchandising, hitting metrics and sharing in the profits when you succeed? If so, you could be a great fit for our District Manager position at Plato's Closet!

At Plato's, we buy and sell teen and young adult clothing. All day, customers bring in clothing to sell to us. After we purchase it, we work a lot of magic behind the scenes to sell it, and the Inventory Manager oversees that process.

As the District Manager, you will oversee our 3 Plato's Closet locations. You will be primarily responsible for leading, managing, and holding the Store Managers accountable to running their stores. Most weeks, you will be working from home for 1-2 days and visiting stores for 3-4 days. You will need to be an excellent problem-solver, love analyzing and improving numbers related to store profitability, and great with ensuring the right people are in the right seats.

Note: One of our stores is located in Texas, so this position will require travel to Texas. When the store is performing well, you can expect to go to Texas once every other month or once per quarter. When the store is going through staffing issues, travel to Texas could be every month.

Our three locations are:

• Flint, MI
• Utica, MI
• San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities

• Faithfully executes the business plan, achieving or exceeding planed P&L objectives
• Leads, manages, and holds the leadership team accountable for achieving agreed-upon commitments
• Integrates all major operating functions of the business. Ensures everyone is rowing together in the same direction.
• Resolves issues effectively -- seeing real problems, being comfortable with conflict, calling out the problems, and solving the problems in a practical and healthy manner. Ensure the leadership team is healthy, functional, and cohesive.
• Ensures that everyone is truly following and adhering to the company's core processes and operating system with consistency. Demonstrates effective project management skills.
• Confirms all key messages are properly and consistently cascaded across the organization. Inherently ensures that everyone is in the know.
• Foster a team culture that embraces our 7 Core Values
• Embrace change, take risks, and try new ideas to help our store grow and evolve

Requirements

• Prior retail District Manager experience required
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment
• Good with numbers
• Able to stand for long periods of time and safely lift 50lbs without assistance

If you'd enjoy being in this type of environment, we'd love to hear from you!

Plato’s Closet is a trendy resale clothing store for teens and young adults. At Plato's, we buy and sell gently used clothes and accessories. We buy styles for all seasons, all day, every day, with no appointment necessary.