District Manager, Retail

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• 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, and professional vendor performance and behavior.
• Ensures store operations are profitable by managing cash, 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 and 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, and 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; plans, monitors, and appraises job results; establishes job expectations; provides coaching to develop action plans for issue resolution; administers counseling notices; initiates corrective actions; implements non-discriminatory management practices.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a 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 a 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 the 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.

• Occasionally lift and/or carry up to 60 pounds from ground to waist level for up to 30 minutes of a workday.
• Occasionally lift and/or carry up to 30 pounds from the ground to overhead for up to 30 minutes a workday.
• Occasionally lift and/or carry up to 40 pounds from the ground to waist for up to 30 minutes a workday.
• Ability to push and pull with arms up to a force of 20 pounds.
• Ability to climb a ladder to store or retrieve materials, place and/or replace signage.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate at a normal range. Lighting will include natural light from the outside as well as fluorescent lighting throughout the work areas. Store temperatures are usually moderate at a normal range. The employee may occasionally be exposed to extreme temperatures while supervising store managers performing occasional work in a walk‑in cooler and/or freezer.

This position may also require 50% travel by car.

NOTE:

This Job Description may change periodically as required by business necessity, with or without advance notice to employees.

Circle K is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Company complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA) and all state and local disability laws. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under the terms of the ADA and certain state or local laws as long as it does not impose an undue hardship on the Company.