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Senior Manager, Store Initiatives and Continuous Improvement (Self-Checkout)

Job Overview

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Compensation

Salary
Range $125,800.00 - $206,650.00
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Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan
Vision Insurance
Employee Discounts
Professional Development

Job Description

Ross Stores, Inc. is a leading off-price retail chain with more than 2,200 stores across the United States. The company is recognized for its strong track record of success and rapid growth. Focused on delivering a steady stream of high-quality brands and trend-right merchandise at exceptional savings, Ross provides customers with a fun and exciting treasure hunt shopping experience. Headquartered in Dublin, California, with buying offices in major markets such as New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston, along with eight distribution centers nationwide, Ross is a Fortune 500 company that earned $22.8 billion in revenues in 2025. The company is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment that values continuous learning and talent development.

Ross values its people and recognizes the importance of teamwork, career growth, and diversity. The organization fosters an environment where team members work collaboratively to solve complex problems and find effective solutions. Ross emphasizes a culture of success by encouraging excellence and ongoing learning. It also promotes diversity, equality, inclusion, and community engagement, believing that diverse backgrounds, ideas, and identities strengthen the company and help it positively impact the community.

The role of Senior Manager at Ross Stores is critical to advancing the company's operational efficiency and technology integration within stores. This position involves evaluating and implementing store technology initiatives and process improvements to optimize labor costs and enhance customer service. The Senior Manager will work cross-functionally with internal teams spanning Store Planning, Operations, Strategy, Loss Prevention, Finance, IT, and field operations, as well as third-party consultants, to analyze and test efficiency enhancements.

In this role, you will apply your retail industry knowledge and operational expertise to identify opportunities for cost reduction and productivity improvement. You'll leverage engineered labor standards and corporate and field insights to assess the impact of potential changes on various aspects of store operations. You will become well-versed in existing store technologies and processes to pinpoint gaps and propose innovative solutions.

The Senior Manager also has significant responsibilities in project management, return on investment (ROI) calculations, and extensive data analysis. This role requires strong communication skills to present complex findings and recommendations clearly to executive leadership, earning credibility and support for proposed initiatives.

Keeping abreast of retail industry trends in process efficiencies and technology is essential, with a responsibility to integrate relevant innovations into Ross's business model. Collaborating with the IT department, you will help design user interfaces and reporting tools that support ongoing management and execution of store initiatives.

This high-profile position requires adept relationship-building skills to establish and maintain successful partnerships with stakeholders across all organizational levels. The role offers significant visibility to executive audiences, underscoring its importance in driving the company's operational excellence.

The base salary range for this position is $125,800 to $206,650, based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, education, certifications, seniority, and location. The salary forms a significant part of a comprehensive compensation package, which may include other rewards depending on the specific role and location.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 8+ years of retail management experience including project management and business process ownership in store operations
  • Prior consulting or productivity management consulting experience preferred
  • Strong leadership and project management skills
  • Proven ability to think strategically and understand business impact of decisions
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Access, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint
  • Effective communication skills both verbal and written to senior executives
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments
  • Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
  • Ability to influence and drive results through cross-functional partnerships
  • Demonstrated project management from creation to maintenance
  • Superior analytical skills, including mathematical and problem solving

Job Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • MBA preferred
  • 8+ years of retail management experience including project management and business process ownership in store operations
  • Prior consulting experience or productivity management consulting preferred
  • Strong leadership and project management skills
  • Proven strategic thinking ability
  • Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Access, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint
  • Ability to communicate complex findings clearly both verbally and in writing
  • Experience presenting to senior-level executives
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Skilled at influencing and driving results through cross-functional partnerships
  • Demonstrated ability to manage projects from inception to implementation and maintenance
  • Superior analytical and problem-solving skills

Job Duties

  • Research industry best practices, competitor practices, and technology opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce labor spend, and improve customer wait times
  • Partner with cross-functional teams comprised of analysts, managers and directors from store planning, store operations, strategy, loss prevention, shortage control, finance, IT and the field to implement and test various enhancements and assess impact to payroll, shrink and sales
  • Develop Key Performance Indicators, qualitative feedback questions, and cost/benefit analysis and lead cross-functional teams to deliver required results in accordance with corporate expectations and timelines
  • Manage analyst(s) supporting projects, responsible for assuring quality of analysis, including assessing analyst's competency level and confidence for requested tasks to determine the level of direction required to successfully complete tasks on-time
  • Prepare and present clear, fact-based presentations to illustrate findings to Executive-level audiences and gain credibility based upon recommendations
  • Ensure accurate timelines, deliverables and business updates are incorporated into project plans
  • Understand how engineered labor standards work and can calculate throughput of a checkout system based on labor standards and transaction times
  • Possess working knowledge of how to model store processes using real world data to assess the potential impact (e.g., transaction times, wait times, queue length, etc.) of enhancements or changes
  • Serve as subject matter expert (SME) in Store Operations and a key point of contact for the organization to understand impact of their changes to store processes or technology
  • Coordinate and oversee the development of capital expenditure requests (CERs) and benefits to support requests
  • Partner with Finance to track/project cash flows for monthly/annual budgeting

Job Criteria

Experience

Mid Level (3-7 years)


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