Regional Manager | Chicago

About the position Responsibilities • Create and foster a respectful and inclusive team environment and culture by welcoming and celebrating differences to ensure a positive and engaging experience for team members and guests. • Build a strong and diverse team that includes team members with various experiences, backgrounds, and skillsets to drive store performance. • Manage and grow dispersed Store Managers through regular check-in conversations, ongoing performance documentation, the annual evaluation process, and business goal setting. • Support learning and development consistently and equitably by providing feedback, coaching, mentoring, and career path guidance. • Enable Store Managers to drive store operations in line with local and global priorities by providing them with the information, tools, resources, and support they need. • Lead and coach stores in assigned region on lululemon's Core Values and Store Principles. • Lead talent planning/pipeline needs and recruitment strategy for stores in assigned region. • Develop or support a strategy for stores in assigned region to close identified performance gaps. • Hold Store Managers accountable for managing and developing their in-store teams. • Establish supportive and productive relationships with all team members, focusing on personal and professional development. • Collaborate with Store Managers and their teams to support operations and ensure stores align with company-wide operational priorities through regular communication and store visits. • Collaborate with regional and cross-functional partners to accomplish projects and initiatives (e.g., real estate plans, new store openings, policy or process updates). • Drive strategies for stores in assigned region, understanding and incorporating the nuances of the region, through periodic review and planning processes (e.g., quarterly business review; plans for things like community, recruiting, and people development; quarterly sales planning). • Monitor key store financial metrics for region to evaluate and report on store performance against objectives. • Ensure financial goals are met by recognizing shortfalls and growth opportunities based on key store financial metrics and creating or implementing solutions. • Accountable for Region budget. Requirements • Must live in Chicago, IL. • Willing to work as part of a team and also complete work independently or alone. • Willing to move through a store to help team members support guests. • Willing to travel to retail locations to accomplish work, as needed and as requested. • Willing to be stationary (e.g., at a desk/computer) for more than an hour at a time. • 5 years of work experience in leadership role. Nice-to-haves • Bachelor's degree or equivalent. • 1 year work experience in multi-retail store management. Benefits • Base Pay Range: $119,000-161,000/annually, subject to minimum wage in the location. • Target Bonus: 30%. • Total Target Base Pay Range: $154,700-209,300/annually. • Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans. • Paid time off. • Savings and retirement plan matching. • Generous employee discount. • Fitness & yoga classes. • Parenthood top-up. • Extensive catalog of development course offerings. • People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job