District Manager - Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo Michigan

Circle K•Remote Workers Michigan MI, MI

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The District Manager is responsible for maximizing store sales through excellent customer service, product availability, merchandising, and maintaining an exceptional store image. This role involves providing information to store management on promotional activities, business opportunities, results, trends, and competitive information. The District Manager also manages controllable costs by educating managers on procedures for controlling merchandise variation, salaries, overtime, cash, and repair/maintenance costs. Collaboration with the marketing team ensures promotions and new product introductions are fully implemented, with feedback provided to category managers regarding stock issues. The position involves partnering with vendors to ensure product availability, timely execution of monthly promotions, and ensuring vendor performance and behavior are professional. Ensuring store operations are profitable by managing cash and merchandise variation, salaries, and other controllable expense lines on the P&L is a key responsibility. The role also ensures compliance with policies, procedures, and government regulations, including enforcing and monitoring restricted sales policies. Protecting employees, customers, and company assets by maintaining a safe and secure working environment, enforcing safety practices, and providing safety communication and training is crucial. Achieving financial objectives involves forecasting requirements, preparing annual budgets, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions. The District Manager provides leadership and direction to store managers, including assistance with recruiting, selection, orientation, employee development, and training programs. This includes establishing job expectations, providing coaching, administering counseling notices, initiating corrective actions, and implementing non-discriminatory management skills. Adherence to the Company Operating Policy of Legal, Ethical, and Moral practices is required. Enhancing professional and technical knowledge through educational workshops, publications, networking, and professional societies is encouraged. Contribution to team effort is measured 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 that meet the requirements may be substituted.
Three to five years of retail business experience or more 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. Ability to supervise and manage the functions listed in the SM job description.
Expertise with MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word preferred.
A current valid driver's license is required to operate a company vehicle.
Must have a valid driver’s license.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field
Three to five years of retail business experience or more
Minimum of two years of management responsibility
Expertise with MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Responsibilities

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 the 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 availability. Timely execution of monthly promotions. Ensure vendor's performance and behavior is professional.
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; advises management of needed actions.
Protects employees, customers and company assets by maintaining a safe and secure working environment; enforcing safety practices; providing 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. Establishes job expectations. Provides coaching to develop action plans for issue resolution. Administers counseling notices; initiates corrective actions. Implements non-discriminatory related management skills while hiring, training, counseling, motivating and separating employees.
Adheres to the 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.