Trainee Store Manager Repco - West/South West Melbourne

Genuine Parts; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive parts company is looking for experienced Store Managers in Melbourne. This role involves leading a team, ensuring customer satisfaction, and managing store operations. Ideal candidates will have leadership experience, effective communication, and a customer-first approach. The position offers growth opportunities within the automotive aftermarket industry, supported by ongoing training and recognition programs. Enjoy a supportive team culture as part of a progressive global company.

Benefits

Recognition programs

Ongoing training and development

Employee discounts

Paid volunteer leave

Qualifications

• Proactive and driven individual with a customer service focus.
• Experience in store financial reporting.
• Comfortable building relationships with customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in a store setting to achieve performance goals.
• Build meaningful relationships with customers and team members.
• Drive team performance and provide ongoing training.

Skills

Leadership / supervisory experience

Customer service expertise

Ability to motivate team members

Experience in fast-paced environment

Job description

• Supportive environment; we will assist you to reach your potential
• Learn about our business across multiple sites
• Part of Genuine Parts Company (GPC), the global leader in automotive parts and accessories

Learn & develop advanced Repco knowledge. Work across multiple sites. Run your own store in the future. Leaders from any industry welcome to apply.

Repcois Australia's leader in Automotive Aftermarket Parts and is one of the most widely recognised brands in the Australian and New Zealand markets. Our brand stands for quality, expertise and knowledge. At Repco, our team members are valued and appreciated. Every day we deliver careers and experiences that are both challenging and rewarding. We have fun at work and celebrate our achievements and milestones, both big and small. And we passionately focus on results and continuous improvement.

We're currently accepting expressions of interest from experienced team leaders or managers who are looking to move on, try something new, enter a new industry, or diversify their skillset, and who would like to step into a role where the training will be thorough and provide a wide range of experience in various store locations in the West/South West of Melbourne .

Store Managers are at the core of our business, where recognition and celebration form part of our daily mantra. If you enjoy building meaningful relationships with customers, team members and the local community then we're the place for you! Opportunities exist for talented leaders to join Repco and learn about our business, parts and customers (operating retail and trade concurrently), before taking the reins of their own store. This learning period will take place across multiple stores in the West/South West of Melbourne, to ensure a wide exposure of the company is gained.

You may not have thought of the aftermarket parts industry as offering amazing career opportunities, but the average Repco team member has a tenure of 8.5 years. Repco is owned by aftermarket giant, GPC Asia Pacific, enabling our team members to have endless future career opportunities.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a leader to join a progressive, successful, growing company, and maybe evenenter a completely new industry.

Store Managers are:

• Proactive and driven
• Leads by example
• Enthusiastic
• Committed
• Customer service expert

To be considered you will have:

• Leadership / supervisory experience
• Understanding or exposure to store financial reporting including P&Ls, rosters and budgets
• Worked within a team to deliver results
• Be comfortable liaising and building relationships with customers and company stakeholders
• Experience working in a fast paced environment

The successful individual will:

• Be a passionate customer service expert
• Be able to motivate their team members to shine, develop and succeed
• Have storeleadership experience
• Have a flexible availability
• Hold a valid driver's licence
• Have the physical capacity to handle products of a heavy nature

We can offer you:

• Recognition programs and team incentives for your performance
• An inclusive team environment; our team are important members of GPC
• The opportunity to join a progressive global company that continually strives to remain the number one in the automotive aftermarket
• Ongoing training and career development; we genuinely care about supporting you to reach your full potential
• Discounts internally and with external partners including health providers
• We proactively support our working parents in a variety of meaningful ways, and our parental leave top-up allowance is one of the ways we do this
• Paid volunteer leave allowing you to give back to your chosen charity/community organisation
• Access to GPC’s exciting employee platform MOVE, unlocking amazing discounts at top retailers, business announcements, e-cards and our employee recognition program, plus so much more!

Thank you for your interest in becoming part of GPC Asia Pacific.

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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.