Store Manager - CHEF'STORE

US Foods•Hampton, VA

9d•$70,000 - $115,000•Onsite

About The Position

CHEF’STORE® is a destination for restaurant shopping, serving both professional and home chefs with wholesale prices on a variety of food items, restaurant equipment, and supplies. The company values employees who build relationships with customers, understand store operations, offer cost-saving tips, and assist customers in finding products. The Store Manager is a primary contact for customers, responsible for daily customer service, and oversees the total operations of the store, performing various duties personally or through supervision of staff. The role has full responsibility for the financial performance of the store, including merchandising, stocking, expense control, and achieving sales and profitability goals. The Store Manager is also responsible for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), recruiting, training, and developing employees, ensuring adherence to loss prevention procedures, and performing Manager-on-duty functions.

Requirements

Minimum of five (5) years experience in a retail work environment required.
Must have at least three (3) years of management/supervisory experience in a retail setting and/or customer service-related field.
Must possess the ability to work a flexible hourly schedule, which includes holidays and weekends.
Must possess and demonstrate competency and proficiency with computer use and spreadsheet creation and usage, word processing, email, and internet software.
Must have cash handling experience.

Nice To Haves

Must possess strong planning and solid organizational skills.
Must exhibit the strong desire and ability to deliver superior customer service, and build professional relationships with the client base, maintaining a strong, consistent customer focus.
Must possess the ability to think quickly and critically, make good, solid business decisions; demonstrate good common sense; and have the ability to think logically.
Must maintain excellent leadership skills, be highly motivated and self-driven, and possess solid communication and conversational skills and negotiation skills.
Must maintain the adaptability and the willingness to assist in accomplishing the job every day, ensuring that everything necessary is completed to offer the customer fast, easy and efficient, and professional service.
Must maintain strong business awareness and an ability to review and interpret financial data.
Must have the ability to work a flexible schedule that may include early mornings, late evening, holidays and/or weekends.
Must possess and exhibit competency and proficiency with computer applications and Microsoft programs.
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.
A degree in Business Management, Supply Chain/Wholesale Management, or Accounting / Finance strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide a store culture that focuses on both initiating and supporting outside sales calls as well as creating a strong, superior service culture within the store, creating an atmosphere of superior customer service that is focused on the company's mandate: great food, great food people and making it easy.
Manage the monthly Profit and Loss (P&L) and assist in the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) budgeting process; maintain budgeted sales and profits, with a focus on increasing sales, managing shrinkage and providing full support to all of the area Territory Managers (TMs).
Implement and supervise strict controls regarding inventory standard operating procedures (SOPs), cash, checks, credit, and other critical aspects of the business, ensuring that all staff complies with company policies, procedures and store SOPs. Responsibility also includes making certain that the facility is well maintained and is a safe environment for staff and customers.
Monitor the auto replenishment function of the Point of Sale (POS) to ensure that the correct products and quantities are being delivered in a timely fashion, providing the IT team with feedback on all aspects of the POS and cash management systems.
Determine marketing strategy and devise marketing plans and effective store strategies to improve sales; responsible for initiating and executing marketing events and programs.
Working with the Company's HR department, actively advertise, recruit, interview, select, hire, orient, train, develop, and retain staff members.
Responsible for continually monitoring the performance of all staff and conducting employee evaluations including follow-through on recommendations, training, and disciplinary actions, including but not limited to terminations, in consultation with the company's HR department, where appropriate.
Supervise and provide the store management and floor staff with day-to-day direction including scheduling, outlining of store goals and sales and shrinkage targets, and the communication, understanding, and addressing of subsequent results.
Implement, provide and monitor training programs and opportunities as necessary to increase employee knowledge base, productivity, accuracy, improved sales and profits, morale, motivation and other significant factors.
Actively communicate with the store staff about all merchandising and marketing programs and oversee the execution and follow-up reporting of such programs.
Adhere to and communicate, and fully support and enforce all policies, processes, and procedures of the Company.
Ensure that the facility is well maintained and is a safe environment for staff and customers.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned or required.