Main Responsibilities of a General Manager
- Responsible for every aspect of everyday operations
- Responsible for resources management
- Takes care of inventory, staff, and customers
General Manager Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and skilled general manager with remarkable skills, who will run a store effectively and with attention to detail.
Our general manager candidates are required to be in constant contact with the staff and customers. They need to be able to ensure their staff provides the highest quality customer services and monitor the overall financial performance of the store.
The responsibilities of a store manager are to greet the staff and customers, provide them with what they need, give intelligent recommendations and suggestions, build customer and brand trust, assist the staff with anything they need and make sure the customers have a great shopping experience.
More importantly, a perfect store manager candidate should be reliable, accommodating, courteous, and friendly to ensure that the customers are fully satisfied.
Responsibilities of a General Manager
- Recruiting and appraising staff
- Training and supervising staff
- Managing budgets
- Counting and tracking inventory
- Ordering inventory
- Maintaining financial and statistical records
- Dealing with customer complaints and queries
- Overseeing inventory and purchasing
- Maximizing profitability and productivity
- Motivating staff to meet sales targets
- Setting sales targets
- Ensuring compliance with safety and health regulations
- Preparing promotional displays and materials
- Liaising with management
- Taking care of promotional prospects, benefits, and salaries of their staff
- Providing opportunities for staff advancements
General Manager Job Requirements
- Commercial awareness
- Confidence
- Resourcefulness
- Organizational skills
- Teamworking skills
- Verbal communication skills
- Numerical skills
- Excellent IT skills
- Enthusiasm
- Problem-solving skills
- Showing initiative
- Leadership