Corporate Store Manager C - Store

Bulk Barn; Richmond Hill; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bulk Barn is seeking a Store Manager in Richmond Hill to lead the store team and drive profitability while upholding service standards. You will partner with the District Manager to achieve revenue goals and manage staff through hiring, training and development.

The role requires 3-5 years in retail management, experience supervising teams, and comfort with POS systems and cash handling. physical requirements include lifting 50 lbs and working in a fast-paced grocery environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of retail management experience.
• Experience supervising people and teams.
• Experience in food retail is an asset.
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs as required by the business.
• Experience with POS and cash handling.

Responsibilities

• Lead store operations to meet policy, sales and customer satisfaction goals.
• Source, hire, train and develop store team and ensure HR compliance.
• Monitor performance, address underperformance with improvement plans.
• Ensure daily deposits are accurate and security standards are followed.
• Collaborate with District Manager to optimize schedules and store performance.

Skills

Retail management

People supervision

Customer service

Cash handling

POS systems

Education

Post-secondary certificate in business or related field

Tools

POS system

Job description

Position Summary:

Work with District Manager and store team to ensure compliance with:

• Customer service standards, Operating policies and procedures, and applicable provincial and federal legislation.
• Work together with the District Managers and Store Staff to lead the store in the achievement of:
  • Operating efficiencies
  • Revenue goals
  • Profitability
  • Customer satisfaction
• Responsible for sourcing, hiring, training and development of, their Store Team.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Communication

• Communications are to be professional, timely, thorough and proactive whenever possible.
• All communications are to be delivered with consistency to all store team.
• All customer communications are to be friendly and productive encouraging repeat business, customer satisfaction and increased sales.

People Management

• Ensure that trends of underperformance are formally addressed, with clear and documented performance improvement plans.
• Formally recognize strong performers within the assigned region.
• Manage store team in compliance with operational, legislative and Human Resources operating policies and procedures.

Problem Solving

• Work with store staff to resolve issues proactively and/or as they arise and report unresolved issues to the District Manager for support.

Accountability

• Ensure the store team performs their job to Company standards and are held accountable for non-compliance.
• Prepare and deliver the daily deposit to the nearest TD Bank

Job Knowledge

• Know our customer by interacting with the customer on the sales floor and observing shopping behaviors, and associate/customer experience.
• Understand and administer operational and HR policies and procedures and ensure compliance with them, consistently between all store team members.
• Understand and effectively apply operational requirements and reports to assist in the daily operation of the store.
• Have a good understanding of our business, our competitors and how we can leverage our current assets in the surrounding market to ensure long term success.

Quality

• Set high expectations for excellent customer service and hold the store team members accountable to the measurable results.
• Ensure stores are "closing to open" and that throughout the day, clear and defined associate floor plans and management occurs to maintain visual/merchandising standards, coupled with an outstanding customer engagement culture.
• Work with the store team members to ensure that the store merchandising environment is a point of differentiation aimed at getting a customer excited about the uniqueness of the offering, the possibilities that may exist, bringing product to life, inspiring a recipe of need, leading to a WOW marketing benefit.

Push For Results

• Drive business success through the effective use of internal reports, retail results assessments, and the development, implementation and monitoring of SMART Goals (action plans) directly geared towards team member skills development, profitability, sales growth and customer satisfaction

Teamwork

• Work with District Manager in the development of retail sales goals and action plans that are directly tied into measurable results and timely and consistent execution.
• Work with District Managers to manage labour and vacation scheduling to budgeted models, both in hours and with the FT/PT ratio.
• Work with the District Manager to ensure your store has the required staff necessary to run the store successfully in the short and long term

Knowledge, Competencies & Skills:

• 3-5 years' experience as a retail manager
• 3-5 years' experience supervising and/or leading people
• 3-5 years' experience working in a retail environment (Food Retail experience is an asset)
• 3-5 years' experience servicing and resolving customer concerns
• Understanding of business management fundamentals
• Post-secondary certificate in business or related field an asset
• Must be able to lift 50lbs ore more as required by the business
• Must have both POS and cash handling experience

  This job requisition is for an existing vacancy.