Retail Store Manager
Description
Retail professionals—are you ready for the rewarding challenge of managing one of the nation’s top convenience stores? Join our team at Circle K! For over 50 years we have provided our customers with the quality and value they have come to expect from us. Today, we are one of the nation's largest chains of company-operated convenience stores, operating over 9,000 locations in North America. We are currently looking for high-energy and sales-driven Retail Store Managers to oversee day-to-day operations at one of our stores.
Our Manager-In-Training (MIT) program will ensure that you are able to run a profitable operation while exceeding customers’ expectations every time they shop at your Circle K store. We offer competitive compensation. Upon promotion to Store Manager (from Manager in Training) you can receive bonuses of over $13,000 annually, based on the performance of your store. If you are looking for the opportunity to grow your retail management career in a dynamic and innovative environment, and if you meet our qualifications, then Circle K is looking for YOU!
NOTE: This is an hourly position. Annual compensation is based on a 50-hour workweek, which is an expectation for the Store Manager position.
Job Requirements
As a Retail Store Manager, you must be self-motivated and dependable with strong leadership abilities. You must also be highly organized and detail-oriented with excellent analytic and problem-solving skills. It is also important that you display excellent verbal, written communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills as well as the ability to motivate your staff to exceed customer expectations.
Specific qualifications for the role include:
- Experience in retail management, 2 years preferred
- Strong verbal and written English language skills
- Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation
- Legal eligibility to work in the United States
- Ability to manage a business that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and to work a varying schedule that may include non-traditional shifts
- Ability to lift or carry up to 50 pounds from ground to waist (to replenish fountain syrups, ice, etc. when necessary)
Job Responsibilities
First, you will start as a Manager in Training, a role designed to prepare you to be a successful Circle K Store Manager. Upon promotion to Store Manager, you will be directly responsible for the success and profitability of your store by ensuring that your entire staff is trained and motivated to use effective sales techniques and to provide exceptional customer service. You will also serve your staff as a role model by performing all store functions as necessary, by demonstrating and encouraging good, safe work habits, and by encouraging a store-wide commitment to positive customer relations.
Your specific duties as a Circle K Store Manager will include:
- Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, training, coaching, and supervising positive and enthusiastic employees
- Developing, managing, and assigning tasks appropriately to ensure that the store is clean, adequately stocked, organized, and well-maintained to Company standards
- Analyzing daily sales and expense information and taking appropriate action to maximize sales and net profits
- Budgeting and forecasting Profit & Loss lines and understanding and managing merchandise margins
- Accurately completing daily paperwork, executing fuel pricing strategies, receiving and verifying vendor deliveries, creating and changing work schedules as needed, etc.
- Controlling inventory
- Reaching desired objectives by evaluating and developing specific action plans that address the needs of your store
Retail Store Manager – Management Trainee Benefits
As a Retail Store Manager with Circle K, you will join a diverse team of people on solid career paths with an established and growing retail organization that strives to be the best place to shop and to work. You will play an essential and high-profile role in ensuring our continued success, and you will find plenty of opportunities to advance to positions of greater responsibility.
Your hard work and professional dedication will be rewarded with a competitive salary as well as the following benefits:
- Bonuses based on store profitability
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid vacation
- Sick time
- Paid training program
- Additional Incentives
THE ABOVE STATEMENTS REFLECT THE GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS/DUTIES AND/OR RESPONSIBILITIES NECESSARY TO PERFORM THE JOB AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY INTENDED TO SET FORTH ALL OF THE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF THE JOB. To apply, go to: https://workwithus.circlek.com/ and search for City/State and apply for "Store Manager."
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $17.00 per hour
Experience level:
Shift:
Weekly day range:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Work Location: In person