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Company: Academy Sports + Outdoors
Location: Katy, TX
Career Level: Entry Level
Industries: Retail, Wholesale, Apparel

Description

Come work at a place where we take pride in creating a workplace environment that values hard work, commitment, and growth.

Come work at a place where we take pride in creating a workplace environment that values hard work, commitment, and growth. Job Description:

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study or equivalent years of related work experience required

Work Experiences:

  • At least ten years of experience managing a multi-store retail organization

Skills:

  • Leadership skills to inspire, lead and manage a large retail organization
  • Entrepreneurial skills to diagnose and capture sales opportunities
  • Employee relations expertise to drive associate recruitment and retention
  • Financial planning and budgeting experience to achieve financial objectives
  • Ability to work cross functionally and gain alignment with key stakeholders
  • Ability to travel extensively and work flexible hours such as evenings, weekends, and holidays as necessary

Responsibilities:

  • Provide leadership to a region of stores in order to achieve customer service, associate engagement and profitability goals
  • Oversees an assigned store region consisting of store districts and  individual store locations to inspire and lead associates while driving sales
  • Serves as the primary communication channel to and from assigned stores on strategic initiatives
  • Conveys Academy's entrepreneurial and sales oriented culture to capture and preserve market share by setting clear expectations, holding field leadership accountable and setting goals that focus the region on key performance indicators that drive profitable transactions.
  • Maximizes employee retention by assisting HR and other store leaders in hiring, mentoring and training processes
  • Provides strategic regional merchandise insights to Academy's merchant organization from personal insights and store feedback
  • Manages regional profitability for assigned stores, ensuring that financial targets relating to sales, store wages and other controllable expenses are met
  • Assists in the development and roll-out of store policies and procedures to provide greater efficiencies and minimize risks
  • Participates in Academy's real estate strategy process by evaluating the viability of new and existing store locations
  • Provides strategic insights on regional attributes related to competition, economic trends, marketing opportunities and other variables
  • Participates in Academy's budgeting process by assisting in the development of sales and expense objectives
  • Oversees the performance evaluation and career pathing process for assigned store region to ensure talent mobility, career development and management goals are met
  • Promote a culture of accountability by setting clear expectations, holding field leadership accountable and setting goals that focus the region on key performance indicators that drive profitable transactions.
  • Develops, coordinates and delivers performance evaluations and career pathing objectives for District Managers
  • Stays abreast of retail trends
  • Maintain internal control documentation, effectively perform assigned internal controls, remediate internal control exceptions, and response to internal and external audit requests
  • Responsibilities may change; team member may be required to perform other duties as assigned

Physical Requirements & Attendance

  • Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties
  • Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures and rules governing professional staff behavior
Full time Equal Employment Opportunity

Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate with regard to employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law.


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