A premier florist in Alexandria, is looking for a General Manager to oversee our shop, all staff, budgets and operations. The General Manager’s responsibilities include, but not limited to formulating overall strategy, managing people and establishing policies. To be successful in this role, you should be a thoughtful leader and a confident decision-maker, helping our people develop and be productive, while ensuring our sales and profits are on the rise. Ultimately, you’ll help our company grow and thrive.
Our business is founded on a customer obsessed mentality, a strong get it done attitude and entrepreneurial drive. We are in the business of delivering love into people’s lives every day and we brighten things up in the hard times too! We are always looking to grow and ways to improve our business.
Floral experience preferred, however we will accept candidates that have a minimum of 7 years at the General Manager level in Retail management and/or Food Service Management.
55 hours/week. Salary is dependent upon experience.
Responsibilities
-Oversee day-to-day operations shop
-Design strategy and set goals for growth
-Maintain budgets and optimize expenses
-Set policies and processes
-Ensure employees work productively and develop professionally
-Oversee recruitment and training of new employees
-Evaluate and improve operations and financial performance
-Direct the employee assessment process
-Prepare regular reports for upper management
-Ensure staff follows health and safety regulations
-Provide solutions to issues (e.g. profit decline, employee conflicts, loss of business to competitors)
Skills
-Proven experience as a Manager or similar executive role.
-Experience in planning and budgeting
-Knowledge of business process and functions (finance, HR, procurement, operations etc.)
-Strong analytical ability
-Excellent communication skills
-Outstanding organizational and leadership skills
-Problem-solving aptitude
We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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