Retail Store Manager

**Who We Are**
**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 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.
**What You’ll Be Doing**
- 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 andfinancial 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
**You Will Have**
- Strong leadership skills
- Extremely driven individual with proven success in motivating and building strong teams.
- Operational excellence while exceeding guest expectations.
- Expertise includes 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
- 4+ years management experience in a specialty retail environment
- Highly motivated
**What’s In It For You**
- Competitive Pay
- Casual Dress
- Store Discount
- Flexible Schedule
- Extended Health Benefits
- Life Insurance
- Being surround by people and products you **_love!_