
District Retail Director
Goodwill-Easter Seals of Minnesota
Saint Paul, MNFull-time$112–157K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The District Retail Director oversees operations and financial performance across 9–13 retail stores in southern Minnesota, directly managing each store’s General Manager. The role develops store talent, supports community involvement, applies efficient practices, and ensures employee and facility safety. It is field-based, with regular travel to multiple locations and store visits four to five days per week.
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Description
Position Summary:
This position is responsible for directing the management and operations of multiple retail stores (9-13) within an assigned district. Each store the District Retail Director oversees processes approximately 1.7M donated items, generates $2.8M in annual thrift sales on average, employees 30-50 employees and is typically designated to provide retail training services to participants enrolled with Services and Programs. This role is responsible for ensuring retail stores are running efficiently and meeting their financial expectations. The District Retail Director directly manages each store's General Manager and is responsible for their professional development and performance management of the results they are accountable to achieving.This role is responsible for stores in the southern region of the state of Minnesota.
Day in the life: In a typical day, the District Retail Director...
Operational Excellence: Fosters cooperation among all business segments to deliver a high standard of quality service
Talent Management: Ensures store talent is trained and developed and manages store personnel needs.
Communication & Collaboration
Services & Programs: Ensures continued community involvement and education around Goodwill-Easter Seals.
Performance & Standards: Produces quality results by applying efficient best practices.
Leadership: Promotes a high quality of work and personal proficiency through effective and innovative leadership.
Safety: Ensures safety and protection of employees, assets, and facilities.
Job Pay & Perks:
Pay range: $112,033-$157,061 annual salary
This is a field-based role that requires regular travel to multiple sites or locations as an essential job function.
Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota (GESMN) prioritizes work-life balance. We offer competitive pay, flexible hours, generous paid time off (PTO) program, competitive medical, dental and vision plans, employer-paid life insurance, 401(k) plan with employer match, and an employee discount!
About you:
Required Knowledge & Skills
Team member development: Professional and skills development.
Ability to navigate and influence cross-functionally with support teams and business partners.
Strong independent work skills, personal organization, and drive.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Fast and efficient with modern communication vehicles (laptop/smartphone/email/zoom/Microsoft office applications).
Hands-on approach to training, coaching and inspection skills.
Commuting to store locations for visits 4-5 days a week with a full store business reviews completed each quarter.
Ability to pull a team together cohesively and leverage the unique skills and talents of everyone to perform better holistically.
Ability to adapt and lead within an ever-changing environment and ability to help progress employees through such changes.
Performance management: Ability to analyze data, observe behaviors, solicit feedback, and in turn, identify practices and behaviors necessary for improvement in business results.
Talent management: Ability to source, identify, and develop quality talent for replacement and bench-strength based upon their background and tenure.
Organizational agility: Ability to understand and navigate the various field and office support mechanisms. Planning, organizing, and managing time for current and future months.
Proven history of utilizing POS, scheduling software, spreadsheets, onboarding software, HRIS, payroll.
History of, or comfort with, working in an environment where team members utilize heavy equipment and perform extensive manual labor.
Basic weekly expectations: Daily vehicle travel, occasional overnights, multi-tasking administrative work (meeting scheduling, conference calls, etc.), occasional weekends, available as needed for any issues that may arise after-hours.
Proven ability to drive sales results both in store and through e-commerce.
Strong conflict management skills.
Ability to interact with a diverse population.
Budgeting and cost analysis procedure expertise.
Ability and desire to provide excellent customer service and to lead a team that does the same.
Must have a valid driver's license, be at least 21 years of age, pass a motor vehicle record (MVR) check, and carry automobile liability insurance coverage with a minimum of $100,000/$300,000/$100,000 limits or a combined single limit of $300,000.
Prior Experience & Education
Minimum of 8years of retail or similar/related experience required.
Single-unit business management: 3+ years of required; 5+ years preferred.
Previous multi-unit management preferred.
Experience with increasing responsibilities more than the above minimum requirements will be considered.
About Us:
Star Tribune Top Workplace 6 years running! Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that has been creating career possibilities together with partners since 1919. Many people know Goodwill stores, but don't know store proceeds support nearly 20 programs for job seekers to access resources and find careers that lead to advancement. Read more about us here.
Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota (GESMN) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. GESMN will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based upon a person's race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, status with regard to public assistance, age, sexual or affectional orientation, gender identity, familial status, ancestry, local human rights commission activity, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other categories protected by law.
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Driver License (required)
Car Insurance (required)
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Goodwill Industries, Inc/Easter Seals Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse workforce.
Goodwill Industries, Inc/Easter Seals Minnesota will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based upon a person's race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, status with regard to public assistance, age, sexual or affectional orientation, familial status, ancestry, local human rights commission activity, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other protected class.
Minimum Education Required
High School Diploma or Equivalent
Minimum Experience Required
3 - 20 years
Shift
First (Day)
Number of Openings
1
Public Transportation Accessible
Yes
Veterans Encouraged to Apply
No
Physical Required
Yes
Drug Test Required
Yes
Compensation
$11.41 / Hourly
Postal Code
55108
Job Type
Full Time
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
DISTR015245
Job Benefits
Not specified
How this job compares
Set against the 574 open District Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$112–157K/yr
- US median$95–114K/yr369 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $135K, is 33% above the US median midpoint ($101K) — in the top quarter of District Manager salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 16 open District Manager jobs in Minnesota and 574 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four District Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 399 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 226 of the 574 open District Manager jobs (39%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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