Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Circle K is a leading convenience store retailer seeking a Regional Operations Director for their Northeast Business Unit. The role involves leading market competitiveness, financial analysis, and team development to drive operational excellence and optimize sales strategies.
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
Skills
- Valid driver's license required
- May require up to 50% travel annually
- 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
- Comfortable public speaker and presenter
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