Assistant Store Manager

Starbucks; Lonavala; On-site; INR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading coffee house in Lonavala is seeking an Assistant Store Manager to lead the store team, ensuring an exceptional customer experience while managing operations and financial performance. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills, operational expertise, and a background in retail or restaurant environments. This role offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for career development.

Qualifications

• 3 years of progressive responsibility in a retail or restaurant environment.
• 1 year of experience in analyzing financial reports and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of store partners to create and maintain the Starbucks Experience.
• Supervise and direct workforce, making staffing decisions.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and product quality.
• Manage store's financial performance.
• Make key decisions about stock control.

Skills

Strong operational skills

Effective communication

Leadership skills

Customer service techniques

Job description

Assistant Store Manager

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store lead Now Brewing – Talent Seekers! #tobeapartner From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee but also connection. We are a neighborhood gathering place, a part of your daily routine. Get to know us and you will see: we are so much more than what we brew. We call our employees ‘partners’ because we are all partners in shared success. We are known to develop and support partners who are guided by the passion of providing service to others. Wemake sure everything we do is through the lens of humanity—from our commitment to the highest-quality coffee in the world, to the way we engage with our customers and communities to do business responsibly.

Our Mission: With every cup, with every conversation, with every community – we nurturethe limitless possibilities of human connection.

Job Summary and Mission

This job contributes to Starbucks success by leading a team of store partners to create and maintain the Starbucks Experience for our customers and partners. The store lead is required to regularly and customarily exercise discretion in managing the overall operation of the store. In particular, a majority of time is spent supervising and directing the workforce, making staffing decisions (i.e., hiring, training, evaluating, disciplining, discharging, staffing and scheduling), ensuring customer satisfaction and product quality, managing the store's financial performance, and managing safety and security within the store. The incumbent is responsible for modeling and acting in accordance with Starbucks guiding principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership – Setting the goals for the work group, developing organizational capability, and modeling how we work together.
• Manages with integrity, honesty and knowledge that promote the culture, values and mission of Tata Starbucks.
• Drives the implementation of company programs by developing action plans and directly motivating and instructing the store team to implement them to meet operational and organizational objectives.
• Plans, identifies, communicates, and delegates appropriate responsibilities and practices to store partners to ensure smooth flow of operations.
• Displays a customer comes first attitude by training and holding partners accountable for delivering legendary customer service.
• Demonstrates a calm demeanor during periods of high volume or unusual events and manages smooth transitions thereafter to keep store operating to standard and to set a positive example for the store team.
• Developing strategic and operational plans for the work group, managing execution and measuring results.
• Utilizes existing tools to identify and prioritize communications and regularly uses discretion to filter communications to the store team; communicates clearly, concisely and accurately in order to ensure effective store operations.
• Monitors and manages store staffing levels to ensure partner development and talent acquisition to achieve and maintain store operational requirements.
• Completes store operational requirements by scheduling and assigning partners, following up on work results.
• Uses all operational tools to plan for and achieve operational excellence in the store; tools include Automated Labour Scheduling, Monthly Status Report, Quarterly Business Review, cash management and inventory management.
• Utilizes management information tools and analyzes financial reports to identify and address trends and issues in store performance.
• Analyzes sales figures and forecasts future sales volumes to maximise profits.
• Uses discretion in accessing external resources to support store operations and to execute district and regional initiatives; resources include Partner Resources, Marketing, Partner & Asset Protection, Food & Beverage / Product & Marketing & Coffee.
• Maintains awareness of market trends in the retail industry, understanding forthcoming customer initiatives and monitoring what local competitors are doing.
• Identifies current and future customer requirements by establishing rapport with customers and other partners who are in a position to understand service requirements.
• Solicits customer feedback and proactively researches local markets to understand customer and community needs.
• Achieves financial objectives based on the annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Manages store revenue, including cash handling, deposit reconciliation and delivery of deposits to bank.
• Ensures availability of merchandise and services by approving contracts, maintaining inventories.
• Manages stock levels and making key decisions about stock control.
• Ensures standards for quality, customer service and health and safety are met.

Business Requirements – Providing functional expertise and executing functional responsibilities

• Uses all operational tools to plan for and achieve operational excellence in the store.
• Analyses sales figures and forecasting future sales volumes to maximise profits.
• Maintains awareness of market trends in the retail industry.
• Identifies customer requirements and proactively researches local markets.
• Achieves financial objectives and manages store revenue.
• Ensures availability of merchandise and services, manages stock levels and controls.
• Ensures standards for quality, customer service and health and safety are met.

Partner Development & Team Building – Providing partners with coaching, feedback and developmental opportunities and building effective teams

• Actively manages store partners by regularly conducting performance assessments, providing feedback, and setting challenging goals.
• Uses performance management tools to support organizational objectives.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with partners by understanding and addressing individual motivation, cultural nuances, needs and concerns.
• Challenges, motivates and inspires team members to achieve business results.
• Demonstrates management principles & practices to create & maintain a successful team environment where partners feel valued & respected.
• Ensures partners and team members adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements.
• Recognizes and reinforces individual and team accomplishments by using existing organizational tools and programs as well as by finding new, creative, and effective methods of recognition.
• Exhibits a willingness and desire to share coffee knowledge, drive coffee conversation through stories with others and creates a culture of coffee appreciation.
• Interviewing & training partners, planning, assigning and directing work.
• Conduct goal setting, appraising and review performance to achieve organisations goals.
• Addressing complaints & resolving problems & conduct regular store meetings.

Summary of Experience

• Progressive responsibility in a retail or restaurant environment – 3 years.
• Experience in analyzing financial reports and supervision – 1 year.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong operational skills to operate in a customer-service environment & manage multiple situations simultaneously.
• Ability to manage in a fast-paced environment with interpersonal skills including effective communication.
• Ability to manage resources to ensure that established service levels are achieved at all times.
• Knowledge of customer service techniques and supervisory practices and procedures.
• Strong organization, planning & prioritizing workload, problem solving & team building skills with leadership skills to coach & mentor others.

Competencies

• Living our Mission & values.
• Helping others succeed.
• Achieving results.
• Winning with integrity.

Let us give you the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself. It is time for you #tobeapartner. Apply today.