Retail Store Manager
- Eau Claire, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Paid bi-weekly
- Health benefits: medical, dental, vision
- 401k
- Tuition assistance
- Associate discounts and perks
- Paid time off for fulltime associates
- Career pathing
- Development opportunities
- Responsible for employment decisions such as recruiting, interviewing, hiring, coaching, and terminating.
- Builds an open-door culture in the store by engaging and listening to associates. Responsible for leveraging the Voice of Associate tool to listen to and respond to associate feedback.
- Accountable for creating and posting the schedule for the entire store after receiving input from Experience and Process Leader.
- Facilitates the associate experience and supports associate development. This includes but is not limited to associate reviews, recognition, team activities, labor management, training, onboarding, mentoring and succession planning.
- Delegates effectively and empowers others to succeed; challenges others to reach their full potential and encourages them to retain ownership for their results.
- Cascades information to associates and adjusts team priorities to meet goals and commitments.
- Ensures continued alignment and responds effectively to a changing environment.
- Address and administer associate complaints and grievances.
- Recognizes and celebrates associates driving overall associate engagement.
- Accountable to ensuring all associate reviews are delivered on time.
- Leads the associate and pet parent experience at all levels and ensures pets in our care are safe and healthy.
- Accountable for the pet parent experience and outcomes conducted over the telephone, in person or online, and responding to general and escalated pet parent concerns.
- Builds a store environment that is focused on consistently delivering an exceptional, positive in-store pet parent and associate experience.
- Evaluates operations and seeks opportunities to continuously improve processes and services.
- Collaborates and partners with the Store Leadership team to ensure efficient and effective outcomes of in-store and community events including partnering with local adoption groups.
- Maintains store standards and leads a culture of empowerment by ensuring compliance with our policies and procedures (P&Ps) and code of ethics for themselves and their team.
- Responsible for conducting monthly Core and Services Walks to validate proper execution of policies and procedures.
- Prioritizes and ensures a safe environment for our associates, pets, and pet parents.
- Ensures compliance with all inventory management tools to guarantee appropriate levels of in-stock are available to all pet parents.
- Communicates business and financial objectives to other leaders within the store.
- Responsible for reviewing in-store cameras to assess safety practices, associate behaviors and assess risk. Follow up with associates and leaders with coaching and accountability as appropriate.
- Responsible for taking immediate action and reports when a sick/injured pet is identified in the store; transport to the vet as needed.
- Shared responsibility with store opening and closing procedures to ensure we uphold our brand promise.
- Deliver corporate strategy and profitability goals by executing the direction set leadership.
- Responsible for analyzing, root cause and responding to a variety of reporting in all areas of the store. Communicates business results to leaders and associates; creating improvement plans where needed
- Identifies and drives opportunities to grow the business, recognizes business successes and holds associates accountable in achieving store P&L expectations such as sales and shrink targets.
- Manages expenses such as labor and supplies and any other relevant store metrics.
- Leverages home office partners and resources to submit and follow up on store related work orders and purchase card allocation.
- Creates and posts schedules for the entire store.
- Accountable for processing payroll weekly and managing labor within a budget.
- Executes daily, weekly, and monthly reporting and paperwork as required by the Company.
- Accountable to run store related errands to support store needs.
- 4-6 years of retail leadership or experience in a customer-focused environment.
- Full time availability required, flexibility in schedule, able to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed
- Proficiency in computer applications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to react under pressure and maintain composure.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Typically oversees the Experience Leader and Process Leader, up to six lead associates and ten to seventy non-leader associates. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with PetSmart’s policies and procedures.
- Associate required to stand, walk, climb a ladder, and use hands to handle, feel, hold, write, etc. The associate frequently is required to reach with hands and arms: stoop, kneel, crouch, talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include depth perception. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Associate must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally team lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include depth perception.
- While performing the duties of this job, the associate is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, as well as a wet environment with an abundance of pet hair. The noise level is moderate in the work environment; however, associates may be exposed to high levels of noise at times. Exposure to live animals and their handling is common.