Store Manager

Workstream; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Ace Hardware is seeking an experienced Store Manager to oversee daily operations and ensure outstanding customer service in a fast-paced retail environment.

You will manage staff, budgets, stock, pricing, and profitability while maintaining strong links with customers and the local community. This role requires reliability, courtesy, and a strong drive to achieve sales targets.

Qualifications

• Experience in store supervision and retail operations.
• Ability to manage budgets and customer service.
• Strong communication with staff and customers.
• Knowledge of stock and pricing control.
• Ability to meet sales targets and drive profitability.

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

Teamwork

Verbal communication

Numerical skills

IT skills

Enthusiasm

Problem solving

Initiative

Lead 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

We are your local hardware store and we are a part of your community. Ace Hardware has over 5,000 stores around the world with the majority of those stores independently owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. These hard working men and women are part of the fabric of your community. They are small business owners who are local and loyal...just like it ought to be. While others have become large and impersonal, at Ace, we've remained small and very personal. That's why we say a visit to Ace, is like a visit to your neighbor.