Assistant Manager

Job Description

Assistant Manager | Circle K

The Tone:
This is a challenging and rewarding full-time Assistant Manager role at Circle K, located in Beech Island, SC. As a prominent and stable employer, Circle K operates as a leading convenience store brand, offering a dynamic and fun environment ripe with opportunities for significant career advancement and professional growth. This position is central to the store’s success, supporting the Store Manager in orchestrating daily stationstore operations, ensuring the maintenance of the company’s rigorous standards for customer service, and guaranteeing the flawless execution of its highly-regarded food program. The Assistant Manager is instrumental in cultivating a positive and productive store atmosphere, actively engaging in staff development, and directly contributing to superior customer experiences and overall store profitability.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Beech Island, SC

• Team: Supports the Store Manager and supervises store staff.
• Mission: To collaboratively manage stationstore operations, uphold service quality, and effectively implement the food program, ensuring a smooth and profitable retail environment.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Store Operations Oversight: Assist the Store Manager with comprehensive oversight of all stationstore operations, ensuring efficiency, profitability, and strict adherence to company policies and procedures, including managing daily tasks and facility upkeep.
• Staff Management and Development: Actively participate in the recruitment, interviewing, and hiring process, then effectively supervise and collaborate with staff to ensure daily tasks are accomplished, while fostering an environment of continuous learning and motivation.
• Financial and Merchandising Responsibilities: Precisely manage all bookkeeping duties, including cash-handling, and strategically oversee merchandising efforts to optimize product placement, display, and sales performance.
• Customer Service Excellence: Champion the company’s high standards for fast and friendly service, setting a clear example for all team members and consistently delivering exceptional experiences to every customer.
• Advanced Food Program Execution: Diligently execute the company’s established food program, ensuring strict adherence to preparation guidelines, quality control, and food safety standards.
• Leadership and Presence: Display a strong sense of urgency, patience, and leadership in all interactions, advocating for both customers and staff, and providing regular, predictable onsite attendance crucial for operational stability.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Demonstrable managerial proficiency within a retail or service environment, with a clear understanding of what it takes to oversee complex store operations and to effectively lead, teach, and motivate a diverse team.
• Experience: While specific years of experience are not prescribed as a hard requirement, candidates must possess a proven capability in core management functions such as team leadership, effective delegation, meticulous follow-up, and clear communication of plans and ideas.
• Skills: Essential skills for this role include strong capabilities in cash-handling and accurate bookkeeping, strategic planning and organizing, proficient problem-solving to address operational challenges, and a steadfast commitment to safety and security protocols within the store environment.
• Bonus: Ideal candidates will bring valuable retail experience, prior supervisor or management experience, demonstrated proficiency in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring processes, practical experience handling food, and a High School Diploma or College Degree(s).