District Manager (nashville, Tn)

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · TN · 113 Order Fulfillment Management

This role is for a District Manager at DoorDash's DashMart, focusing on leading and overseeing multiple fulfillment center locations. The primary responsibilities include managing teams, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations, driving market metric performance, executing process improvements, and managing change within the sites. The role requires strong leadership, problem-solving, and analytical skills, with a focus on operational excellence and customer experience in a fast-paced, potentially ambiguous environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. recruit, lead, coach & retain a high-performing team of Site Managers (4+ direct reports), Assistant Site Managers, Shift Leads, and Operations Associates (30+ indirect reports). As a leader, you are a culture carrier. The tone starts with you.
  2. From first principles, you will spend most of your time physically onsite managing and overseeing the day-to-day operations of 4-6 DashMart locations, ensuring all site processes run smoothly, efficiently and safely. Responsible for market metric performance (quality, storefront reliability, efficiency, and profitability) by identifying opportunities, and implementing growth plans to achieve goals.
  3. by executing process improvement pilots & projects with cross-functional stakeholders to drive operational efficiencies while maintaining positive employee experience. Contribute to market expansion and scaling efforts by ensuring that sites execute against increased demand, operational best practices, and driving results against operational key metrics.
  4. Own site-level culture and change management by leading adoption of operational best practices, activating team engagement, and channeling frontline insights to influence cross-functional decisions.
  5. Work cross-functionally with central teams to ensure your site offers customers the best experience on each and every order and provide your team with the tools, resources and support needed to achieve these goals.

Skills

Required

  • Operations management
  • Retail management
  • Warehouse management
  • Strategy
  • Leadership
  • Team management
  • Problem-solving
  • Analytical skills
  • Data analysis
  • Excel

Nice to have

  • Startup experience
  • Logistics experience
  • Fulfillment Center experience
  • Warehousing experience
  • High volume operations management
  • Multi-unit management
  • Team building

What the JD emphasized

  • flexible schedule aligned to being onsite regularly based on business needs, including non-traditional hours, weekends, and holidays
  • You solve problems from first principles.
  • You’re excited to solve problems in innovative ways, and you resist “this is how it’s always been done” thinking
  • You’re unafraid of ambiguity.
  • Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environments
  • You’re analytical.
  • You let data win arguments.
  • You are a data-first problem solver with excellent Excel / data analysis skills.
  • You’re relentless.
  • You do what it takes to win, no matter what
  • You have led & managed teams of 15+ employees and/or multi-locations.
  • 3+ years’ experience
  • In Operations, Retail/Warehouse Management, Strategy or related field
  • You are within a reasonably commutable distance to a DashMart in the advertised location.