DESIRED SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Minimum 5 years of Senior Manager Experience in a grocery retail environment – multi location experience is required
• Post-secondary education (degree, diploma, or certification) or an equivalent combination of education/training and experience.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, with a focus on Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision making skills with a high attention to detail.
• Proven organizational, planning, and prioritizing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, tasks and assignments while adhering to strict deadlines.
• Must work well in a fast paced dynamic team environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong customer service skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships within the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidential information.
• Possess or have the desire to develop an in-depth understanding of TNWC’s customers.Able to accommodate a schedule with extensive travel of 90 to 120 days per year.
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  Location: Gibraltar House, 77 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB
  Reports To: General Manager, Arctic Division
  We create a collaborative and constructive culture by:
  • Being Enterprising • Committing to our Customer • Working with Passion • Leading and Developing Others • Demonstrating Respect and Inclusivity • Building Trust
  The North West Company is committed to inclusion and diversity and encourages applications from all candidates including but not limited to: all religions and ethnicities, LGBTQ2s+, BIPOC, and persons with disabilities.

• Create and execute plans to ensure stores reach full performance potential.
• Achieve full understanding of the competitive landscape and community relations with adaptation to unique market factors.
• Develop and coach store managers to achieve cascading company initiatives.
• Simplify work for stores by bringing forward store managers’ ideas for continuous improvement.
• Ensure the execution of employee training and development programs, by working with the Operations Support Team and People Team.
• Work collaboratively with communities to optimize local hiring.
• Ensure implementation of required processes to enable store managers to recruit, retain and develop local store teams to drive quality growth.
• Forecast hiring needs for management staff in the division.
• In conjunction with store managers, plan, develop, nurture, and maintain long-term business relationships with community stakeholders, business partners, political leaders, and customers.
• Analyze operating results and KPI performance within the division.
• Plan and develop action plans with store managers for underperforming stores.
• Develop detailed implementation plans, adapting to each division’s, and community’s local needs based on customer & community feedback.
• Ensure controllable costs are well managed to deliver on budget.
• Deliver community reports annually.