Store Manager
Caltex New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand
• Improving the volume of sales and making efficiency savings in a highly competitive retail environment.• Negotiating with suppliers to gain favorable terms for supply and for returns of expired stock.• Developing and maintaining good relationships with customers and encouraging staff to provide extra services, which increases sales and ensures repeat business.• Investigating, checking and comparing pricing with competitors and meeting with senior management to discuss sales strategies.• Organizing promotions, which successfully shift, stock and please the customers.• Recruiting new staff and training them to meet the company standards.• Planning and organizing the staff roster to ensure safe and effective cover is always available.• Communicating openly with staff, allocating duties appropriately. Encouraging their learning and development, leading to improvements in timekeeping and performance.• Solving EFTPOS, IT, hardware and software and other e-pay issues quickly and effectively.• Managing the monthly stock take, maintaining appropriate levels of stock and keeping in budget.• Ordering stock on-line, achieving accurate levels and ensuring products are always available to customers.