Store Manager

Musgrave; Portlaoise; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading family-owned business in Portlaoise is seeking a SuperValu Store Manager to drive store profitability and manage development. This role involves coaching management teams, ensuring compliance with standards, and implementing strategies for sales growth. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in grocery retail management, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record in analytics. This position offers career development opportunities and a collaborative work environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Collaborative working environment

Focus on community impact

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years management experience in grocery retail industry.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple departments.
• Strong analytical skills with focus on P&L management.

Responsibilities

• Drive store profitability and manage development of the store.
• Coach management teams to overachieve on targets.
• Ensure compliance with HR KPI’s and legal requirements.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Leadership

Analytical skills

Team building

Job description

Overview

Musgrave is one of Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses, with a rich 150-year legacy in food and brand innovation. We’re proud to serve communities across Ireland and Spain, feeding one in three people every day through 18 iconic brands like SuperValu, Centra, Mace, Frank and Honest, and Musgrave MarketPlace. By supporting thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses, we make a positive impact on the communities they serve. We’re committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland, and we’re looking for dynamic, forward-thinking individuals to join us on this journey.

Please note this SuperValu Store Manager role is based in the Midlands initially, with flexibility required in the future.

Role purpose

The purpose of this role is to drive store profitability and oversee the management and continuous development of the store. This will be achieved through the direction and motivation of the store teams, ensuring strong retail disciplines are in place, implementation of plans and consistency of standards are delivered across the store. The Store Manager will coach store management teams to overachieve on annual targets set and key financial metrics, such as labour, shrink, waste, whilst ensuring best in class retail excellence standards are achieved.

Key outcomes

• Sales Growth delivered in line with expected outcome for Store
• Waste, Shrink and Reduced to clear targets achieved
• Store achieving best in class retail metrics
• Competent Colleagues in each department within the store
• Retail excellence standards achieving 89% or above
• 60% of all Store Vacancies filled internally

What you’ll be doing

• Drive key sales initiatives and maximize on both the SuperValu brand and offer
• Drive promotional participation
• Coach all AMs/ DMs on how to drive profitability, including the people and commercial skills required
• Coach Assistant Managers and Duty Managers to develop local store plans focused on increasing footfall and spend
• Develop an understanding of your local customer base and encourage local customer feedback groups/intercepts
• Analyse sales trends to develop strategies to address areas of underperformance
• Deliver waste, shrink and markdowns to required benchmark
• Deliver labour plan for your individual store
• Ensure the store is delivering operational margin and is finding ways to locally maximize scan margin
• Reduce stock holding and control Stocktaking procedures
• Drive a culture of lowest cost, ensuring all controllable costs are managed effectively
• Ensure the duty management team have been set targets on Sales, Margin and Waste
• Ensure the performance review process is fully implemented in the store
• Internal Recruitment of 60% within store
• Develop a succession plan for your store, ensuring we have the right colleagues in the right roles
• Develop and coach talent at all levels within the store
• Ensure compliance with all HR KPI’s and legal requirements
• Ensure the E.I.Q.A. Hygiene award is achieved annually
• Ensure mystery shop results are consistently delivering ICARE excellence standards
• Drive a culture of engagement within your store.
• Drive breakthrough culture with a particular focus on ensuring that the appropriate breakthrough tools are implemented within the store (outcome focused, line of one etc.)

What we’re looking for

• Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate a high level of commercial acumen
• A successful track record of managing a number of different departments at a managerial level
• Minimum of 10 years management experience in grocery retail industry, in both fresh and ambient departments
• A self-starter with strong drive, an appetite for hard work who demonstrates energy and an ambition to succeed
• Able to demonstrate strong leadership and team building skills
• Excellent analytical skills with a particular focus on P&L management
• Flexible management style; able to celebrate success, motivate and have difficult conversations with colleagues and managers

Why Musgrave

• Career Development: With a commitment to your personal and professional growth, Musgrave offers numerous opportunities for advancement and learning.
• Collaborative Environment: Work alongside a passionate team, where your contributions will make a significant impact
• Innovation Focus: Be part of a company that values forward-thinking solutions
• Community Focus: Be part of a company that truly values its communities and strives to make a positive impact.
• Be Part of a Legacy: Join a company with a long-standing commitment to community and innovation

Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.