Store Manager

Lyfe Hospitality; Fairfield (CT); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Workstream in Fairfield, Connecticut is seeking a store manager to run a storefront with attention to detail and strong leadership.

You will supervise staff, manage resources and stock, and ensure customers receive excellent service while monitoring the store's financial performance and profitability. You will greet customers and staff, make recommendations, and maintain a safe, compliant, and inviting shopping environment.

Qualifications

• Commercial awareness is essential for market-facing leadership.
• Strong communication and staff management are required.
• Sound numerical and budget awareness for store profitability.
• Capable of organizing teams and daily operations.
• Proactive problem-solving and initiative in fast-paced retail.

Responsibilities

• Recruiting and appraising staff
• Training and supervising staff
• Managing budgets
• Maintaining financial and statistical records
• Dealing with customer complaints and queries
• Overseeing stock and pricing control
• Maximizing profitability and productivity
• Motivating staff to meet sales targets
• Setting sales targets
• Ensuring compliance with safety and health regulations
• Preparing promotional displays and materials
• Liaising with management
• Taking care of promotional prospects, benefits, and salaries of their staff
• Providing opportunities for staff advancements

Skills

Commercial awareness

Confidence

Resourcefulness

Organizational skills

Teamworking skills

Verbal communication

Numerical skills

IT skills

Enthusiasm

Executive skills

Problem-solving

Initiative

Leading by example

Job description

Main Responsibilities of a Store Manager

• Responsible for every aspect of everyday supervision of store outlets
• Responsible for resources management
• Takes care of stock, staff, and sales management

Store Manager Job Description

We are looking for an experienced and skilled store manager with remarkable skills, who will run a store effectively and with attention to detail.

Our store manager candidates are required to be in constant contact with the staff and customers. They need to be able to ensure their staff provides the highest quality customer services and monitor the overall financial performance of the store.

The responsibilities of a store manager are to greet the staff and customers, provide them with what they need, give intelligent recommendations and suggestions, build customer and brand trust, assist the staff with anything they need and make sure the customers have a great shopping experience.

More importantly, a perfect store manager candidate should be reliable, accommodating, courteous, and friendly to ensure that the customers are fully satisfied.

Responsibilities of a Store Manager

• Recruiting and appraising staff
• Training and supervising staff
• Managing budgets
• Maintaining financial and statistical records
• Dealing with customer complaints and queries
• Overseeing stock and pricing control
• Maximizing profitability and productivity
• Motivating staff to meet sales targets
• Setting sales targets
• Ensuring compliance with safety and health regulations
• Preparing promotional displays and materials
• Liaising with management
• Taking care of promotional prospects, benefits, and salaries of their staff
• Providing opportunities for staff advancements

Store Manager Job Requirements

• Commercial awareness
• Confidence
• Resourcefulness
• Organizational skills
• Teamworking skills
• Verbal communication skills
• Numerical skills
• Excellent IT skills
• Enthusiasm
• Executive skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Showing initiative
• Setting a good example

Our Philosophy
Why
Lyfe?
Because eating well shouldn't feel like a compromise. Every concept starts with one question: how do we make the food people already love better — for them, and for the planet?
From sourcing cleaner ingredients to building kitchens our communities are proud of, we operate restaurants that nourish — our guests, our teams, and the Connecticut neighborhoods we call home.