Market Manager in Training
Circle K
full-time
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Location: Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Maximizes store sales through excellent customer service, product availability, merchandising and exceptional store image inside and out.
- Provides information to store management by recapping promotional activity; reporting business opportunities, results, trends and competitive information.
- Manages controllable costs by educating managers on procedures for controlling merchandise variation, managing salaries, overtime, cash, repair and maintenance costs.
- Collaborates with Marketing team to ensure promotions and new product introductions are fully implemented; provides feedback to category managers regarding stock issues.
- Partners with vendors to ensure product is available and timely execution of monthly promotions; ensures vendor performance and professional behavior.
- Ensures store operations are profitable by managing cash and merchandise variation, salaries, and other controllable expense lines on the P&L.
- Ensures compliance with requirements by enforcing adherence to policies and procedures, and government regulations; enforces and monitors restricted sales policies.
- Protects employees, customers and company assets by maintaining a safe and secure working environment; enforces safety practices and provides safety communication and training.
- Achieves financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Provides leadership and direction to store managers, including assistance in recruiting, selection, and orientation processes; assists with employee development and training programs; planning, monitoring and appraising job results; provides coaching and administers corrective actions.
- Adheres to Company Operating Policy of Legal, Ethical, and Moral practices.
- Enhances professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reading professional publications; establishing personal networks; or participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing Financial and Key Result Area targets pursuant to Company plan guidelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related field preferred; other combinations of job related experience and education may be substituted.
- Three to five years of retail business experience preferred; including minimum of two years of management responsibility.
- Must have demonstrated leadership ability, good communication skills, be self-directed, self-motivated and customer service oriented.
- Ability to communicate (orally and in writing) in English.
- Ability to supervise and train Store Managers in use of store equipment, tools and materials.
- Expertise with MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word preferred.
- A current valid driver's license is required to operate a company vehicle.
- Physical requirements including ability to sit, talk/hear, use hands; occasionally stand, walk, reach; occasionally lift up to 60 pounds; push/pull up to 20 pounds; climb a ladder.
- Willingness to travel approximately 50% by car.