Retail Store Manager

Mind Games is North America’s premier specialty retailer "where creative minds come to play"! Our stores are chock full of traditional and contemporary boards games, pop culture collectibles, puzzles, educational and fun toys, and lots more. Whether it’s the latest game for a board game night, your favorite Funko Pop, cool birthday gifts for your young nephew or a nice chess set for Uncle Harry we pretty much have something for everyone.

We are looking for great candidates for store managers and assistant store managers

We sell fun and need leaders that are knowledgeable in our products (current knowledge or extreme curiosity to learn) are able to achieve sales goals by creating great customer/employee experiences and able to maintain a visually compelling store.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Highly motivated.
• Extremely Driven Individual With proven success in motivating and building strong teams.
• Operational excellence while exceeding guest expectations.
• Expertise include shrink reduction, expense control, people development, merchandising strategies, differentiation, brand strategy and partnership creation.
• A passion for board games and pop culture as well as driving sales
• Proven ability to recruit/hire/train/coach a winning team
• Outgoing and Fun personality.
• 3+ years store manager experience in a specialty retail environment.

Description of Position:

• Strong leadership skills.
• Completes store operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results. Maintains store staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Maintains store staff job results by coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Ability to effectively teach/develop others to next level.
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Identifies current and future customer requirements by establishing rapport with potential and actual customers and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
• Ability to multi task/ organizational skills
• Markets merchandise by studying advertising, sales promotion, and display plans; analyzing operating and financial statements for profitability ratios.
• Protects employees and customers by providing a safe and clean store environment.
• Determines marketing strategy changes by reviewing operating and financial statements and departmental sales records.
• Execute and monitor loss prevention and shrink programs