Region Operations Director

Circle K•Tallahassee, FL

2d•Remote

About The Position

The position will require the individual to reside within the Region. This Region encompasses Tallahassee, FL through Valdosta, GA then across southern Georgia to the coast. The Region Operations Director ensures market competitiveness by monitoring and evaluating competitor pricing activities, analyzing market surveys, and preparing forecasts. They evaluate the financial status of stores by reviewing various reports and determine marketing strategy changes. This role improves sales and profits by consulting with gasoline and marketing departments to develop strategies for promotional programs. The Director maintains stores by conducting inspections to ensure cleanliness and good repair, evaluating inventory levels, merchandising, and auditing paperwork. They protect employees, customers, and company assets by maintaining a safe and secure work environment and enforcing safety practices. The role achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions. They allocate program costs by preparing operational and risk reports. The Director maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees, and increases employee effectiveness through coaching, counseling, and development. They maintain professional and technical knowledge and contribute to team effort. The role also plans sustaining and investment capital spending by working with Real Estate to evaluate future store acquisition opportunities and occasionally engages with governmental agencies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field preferred. Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
Ten years of experience working in the convenience store/gasoline industry or more preferred; including minimum of 5 years of management responsibility.
Experience with MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word preferred.
May require up to 50% travel annually.
Comfortable public speaker and presenter
Valid driver’s license required.

Responsibilities

Ensures market competitiveness by monitoring and evaluating competitor pricing activities; analyzing market surveys, preparing forecasts; making adjustments.
Evaluates financial status by reviewing cash/over reports, inventory shortages, repair and maintenance expenses, supply expenses, gasoline and grocery sales, profit margins.
Determine marketing strategy changes by reviewing operating and financial statements; sales activity.
Improves sales and profits by consulting with gasoline and marketing departments to develop strategies to optimize implementation of promotional programs.
Maintains stores by conducting inspections to ensure the facility is clean and in good repair; evaluate inventory levels, merchandising; audits paperwork and reports.
Protects employees, customers and company assets by maintaining a safe and secure work environment; enforcing safety practices; providing safety communications and training.
Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
Allocates program costs by preparing operational and risk reports for analyses.
Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting and training employees.
Increases employee’s effectiveness by communicating job expectations; coaching, counseling and disciplining; communicating values, strategies and objectives; planning, monitoring and appraising job results; fostering a climate conducive for offering information and opinions; developing personal growth opportunities.
Maintain 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 related results as needed.
Plans sustaining and investment capital spending by working with Real Estate to evaluate future store acquisition opportunities.
Occasionally engages Governmental agencies on various matters.