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DISTRICT MANAGER

Kroger Family of Companies

Glen Allen, VAJob$144–180K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$144–180K/yr
Location
Glen Allen, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The District Manager oversees district stores’ customer experience, operational execution, sales performance, and controllable expenses. The role includes coaching and developing store leadership, aligning division priorities with company direction, monitoring financial performance, and supporting merchandising, operations, and community relationships. The manager also provides feedback on company initiatives and works with HR and field staff to support store leadership and department goals.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

MerchandisingRetail Multiunit SupervisionMicrosoft OfficeLeadership

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED2+ Years Retail Multiunit SupervisionStore Manager or High-Level Company ManagementBachelor's DegreeLeadership Skills TrainingDistrict Manager Training

Full job description

Responsible for district stores' abilities to exceed customer expectations for ease of shopping, service, variety, freshness, cleanliness, food safety and regulatory compliance and take action as necessary. Spend time in stores, on the floor coaching, training, and developing store leadership teams to exceed customer expectations. Ensure execution of the merchandising or operational plans/programs and provide feedback on the effectiveness of the plans. Responsible for meeting/exceeding the district and division sales budgets for sales growth and market share and controllable expenses. Execute and establish accountability for all segments of the Company Strategy. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety. RESPONSIBILITIES - Spend time in stores, leading store leadership in implementation and execution of merchandising and operations initiatives

  • Interact regularly with division President to ensure that division's priorities are aligned with total company direction

  • Work with store leadership to identify opportunities in the assigned store, develop solutions and action plans to ensure implementation

  • Achieve/exceed sales goals, as well as targeted goals (e.g., safety, shrink)

  • Discuss store-level financial performance including budgets (e.g., sales, shrink, labor expenses, and other expenses) and other targeted goals (e.g., safety) with store leadership in P/L meetings

  • Achieve return on investment on approved capital projects and assist in identifying potential capital projects opportunities in geographic area of responsibility

  • Understand the competitive landscape within the district and provide feedback to the field merchandisers

  • Partner with field staff to enable departments to achieve their financial goals and ensure communication, implementation and execution of corporate plans

  • Provide upward feedback on the communication and effectiveness of company merchandising, operations, training, human resources, and change management initiatives to division/corporate staff

  • Promote and support strong store relationships with the community

  • Demonstrate inclusionary leadership, role models friendly behaviors and expect inclusive and friendly behavior from associates and support the efforts of the store and district Our Promise teams

  • Counsel and assist store leaders in the development of assistant store leaders and store associates

  • Coach store leaders, provides candid feedback, identifies and trains store leaders with district manager potential

  • Work with appropriate HR resources to ensure the adequate recruiting, hiring, training, development and evaluation of store leadership

  • Supervise and coach direct reports on the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports

  • Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

QUALIFICATIONS Minimum

High School Diploma or GED

Any Merchandising experience

2+ years of experience working as a multiunit supervisor in a retail setting

Have held a store manager position within the company or a highlevel company management position

Desired

Bachelors Degree

High initiative

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Leadership skills training

District Manager training

$144,100.00 - $180,150.00 per year

How this job compares

Set against the 586 open District Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$144–180K/yr
  • Virginia median$95–114K/yr21 salary ranges
  • US median$95–113K/yr366 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $162K, is 58% above the Virginia median midpoint ($103K) — in the top quarter of District Manager salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 22 open District Manager jobs in Virginia and 586 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four District Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 392 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 217 of the 586 open District Manager jobs (37%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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