PLEASE NOTE: This position will oversee multiple stores in West Chicago. Hybrid position, Must be able to travel.
Essential Job Duties
- Meeting and exceeding operational goals as related to sales, profitability and expenses through implementation of established programs and processes
- Accountable for achieving the sales plan and ensuring that the labor budget is meeting company goals
- Maintain effectiveness in work tasks; adjust effectively to work within new work structures, processes, and requirements. Ensures required work/tasks are completed efficiently
- Lead and inspire stores to be product obsessed, customer-focused, innovative, fast-moving and team-oriented
- Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement in sales and profitability, improved productivity, and enhanced customer experience through more effective operational processes
- Maintain relationships throughout the organization to provide further sources of productive collaboration and feedback to improve operational processes
- People Management - Sourcing, Recruiting, Selecting and developing diverse talent for the area
- Manage operational budgets
- Develop and implement short- and long-term goals
- Participate in new store openings or future projects as needed
- Demonstrated strong analytical, organizational, problem solving, and communication skills with all levels of management
- Demonstrated abilities with Human Resource and Asset Protection issues
- Required Education, Certifications and Work-Related Experience
- Education: High School or GED required, Bachelor's degree preferred
- Experience: at least 3-5 years retail with at least 2 years of multi-store experience
- Strong experience in discount, grocery, drug store or variety store multi-unit management desired.
Job Scope/Impact
- Has the authority to direct the employee’s daily work activities. Has authority to undertake or
- recommend the following employment actions: hiring, termination, corrective action, and performance reviews.
- Decisions have major implications on the management and operation of an area within a department.
- The job may contribute to important strategy, operational, and business decisions that affect the department.
- Problems are highly varied, complex, and often non-recurring, requiring novel and creative
- approaches to resolution. New concepts and approaches may have to be developed.
- Results are defined; sets own goals and determine how to accomplish results with some guidelines.
- The supervisor/manager provides broad guidance and overall direction.
- Has full responsibility for planning, monitoring, and managing a departmental budget.
- Has frequent contact with others outside of workgroup, both inside and outside DAISO. Results have major implications on the management and operations of an area within a department.
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Requirements:
- Ability to build an effective team
- Strong business acumen
- Customer service focused
- Ability to make quality decisions
- Must successfully source, identify and develop direct reports
- Exhibits drive for results
- Managing through systems
- Process management
- Ability to manage and measure work
- Ability to motivate others
- Strong Presentation skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Travel: Up to 25% with occasional over nights
- Ability to relocate a plus
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