General Manager Job Description
2 Years Retail Management Required: Home Improvement/ Lawn & Garden Preferred
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Produce annual budget and achieve budgeted goals
- Oversee and follow goals presented in budgets
- Work with the sales, inventory managers to identify orders on product
- Make sure all orders are being processed in timely sound manner
- Oversee nursery marketing in conjunction with the sales and the marketing department focusing on specific promotions to enhance sales, availability communication, customer appreciation, promotional materials and customer specific events
- Assist with purchasing wholesale materials
- Establish quantity needed to supplement inventory shortages
- Follow budget to help determine these quantities
- Keep track of inventory and distinguish any discrepancies to the warehouse manager
- Continue to develop and improve pesticide program and education
- Identify newest chemicals and those that have been discontinued
- Oversee maintaining of chemical usage log
- Oversee maintaining MSDS
- Hire employees and conduct training, assist with payroll duties
- Assign work schedules and duties to employees, hire employees, and supervise their work
- Prepare employees schedules or work assignments
- Enter time off hours and approve hours for payroll
- Maintain safety awareness
- Ensure all policies, procedure, and rules are being followed and those that violate are appropriately disciplined
- Implement safety training
- Explain and enforce safety regulations and policies to employees
- Communicate organizational policies and procedures
- Accommodate employees with a job with light duty restrictions
- Provide information to customer on the care of all goods and products sold and advice customer on procedural issues in addition to excellent customer service.
- Weather dependent. Working outside in summer sun and winter cold caring, merchandising & selling plants & plant materials
Experience / Skills:
- Ability to effectively coordinate and complete numerous activities simultaneously.
- Ability to identify problems and work in conjunction with others to implement effective solutions.
- Independent judgment to develop creative solution to spontaneous problems that may arise.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Must be able to work effectively under pressure
- Forklift experience and certification required
- Full Time Position
- The work requires walking and standing entire shift
- Must be able to lift, pull, push and/or carry 60lbs.
- Pre employment drug screening required
- Excellent benefit package
- EOE
- E-Verify Participating Company
Experience
Required
- 3 year(s): Store Manager Experience
Skills
Preferred
- Product Knowledge
- Powered Industrial Equipment Operation
- Communication Skills
- Customer Service
- Attention to Detail
- Reliability/ Dependability
Behaviors
Preferred
- Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
- Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
Shift:
Application Question(s):
- 1. Why are you interested in this position?
2. What is your Plant & Plant Materials knowledge level? (Please explain)
3. Please detail your Store Management Experience?
4. Without telling us what you are making or your salary history, where are you looking for your compensation to be?
Work Location: In person