General Manager, Retail Operations

Sundry Markets Limited owns and operates Marketsquare Supermarkets (www.marketsquareng.com) - Nigeria’s emerging grocery retailer. Our first store commenced trading in December 2015 while efforts are underway to put a store in every major city of the country.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below: 

Job Position: General Manager, Retail Operations
Job Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Job Description

• The General Manager, Retail Operations will be responsible for the day to day profitable operations of all physical retail stores in line with the company’s retail operating standards and set objectives.
• The Candidates must be an Inspiring, confident and self-driven person with bias for action in line with our business goals.

Job Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities include:

• Day to day oversight on all assigned retail operating stores
• Visiting individual stores and investigating the performance and operations of each store
• Maintaining best practice visual merchandising standards across all assigned locations
• Ensuring that all the stores are working towards higher profitability
• Assist in the development, update and enforcement of retail operating standards and policies
• Ensuring that all the stores are adhering to and functioning as per company policies
• Creates end-to-end sales plan, display plans and ad plans customized for each Category
• Maintains comprehensive awareness of industry trends and competitive landscape
• Ensuring proper controls and minimal shrinkage to the company’s inventory
• Provide troubleshooting solutions to stores in times of problems
• Instituting best-in-class loss prevention strategies aimed at protecting company’s assets and managing costs
• Creates business plan for the stores and communicates same
• Working with the Human Resource function to identify and recruit operating staff
• Training and mentoring staff

Basic Job Requirements

Relevant Competencies:

• Excellent Leadership skills and attention to details
• Clear and Effective Communication Skills
• Good Project Management Skills
• Advanced user of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook and power point) & excellent presentation skills
• Excellent Business and Finance Acumen. Cost and profit conscious

Ideal candidate should have:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Management, Business Administration or relevant field. MBA will be added advantage.
• Minimum of Ten years’ management level experience in a retail/franchise experience for a multibranch modern grocery retail chain
• The ideal candidate should have had operational excellence and profit goals, oversight and responsibility for a minimum ten (10) superstore modern grocery retail operation

Application Closes on...
21st December, 2017.

Application Method
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to email.

Note

• Only qualified and interested candidates who are willing and available to partake in the selection exercise which is scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt should apply
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.