#Job Opening: General Manager for Park Slope Food Coop, Inc. (Brooklyn, New York) https://lnkd.in/eKStPRYT
The General Manager oversees all aspects of managing the Park Slope Food Coop, our cooperatively owned and operated grocery store. The GM will play a pivotal role in the Coop's continued success while following our core mission and cooperative values and demonstrating a strong commitment to our member-labor participatory model.
We are ideally seeking an individual with a minimum of three years of executive-level grocery management experience to join our GC team as the GM.
Required Qualifications
• Financial Management: Excellent business acumen and fiduciary skills with a robust knowledge of financial management and reporting. Comprehends financial variables, how to find them, and how to place them in a business context. Creates and manages projections and budgets (operating, capital, and cash budgets.)
• Strategic Thinking: Thinks conceptually, imaginatively, and systematically about success.
Identifies strategic opportunities and areas for improvement and develops strategies to achieve success. Communicates a compelling vision with goals.
• Managing People: Experience leading management-level employees by effectively evaluating, inspiring, recognizing, delegating work, and providing timely coaching and guidance. Exhibits patience and consideration.
• Change Management: Aligns stakeholders to effectively implement organization and business changes. Listens to new ideas and alternatives.
• Cultural Awareness/Intercultural Competency: Fosters an inclusive and welcoming environment where members and staff feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute to the Coop's success.
• Problem-solving: Accurately diagnoses root causes of issues and correctly identifies appropriate resolution.
• Accountability: Is willing and able to hold people accountable for Coop, department, and personal success. Able to hold oneself accountable.
• Courage: Willing to make unpopular decisions and have difficult discussions with stakeholders when needed
• Adaptability: Resilient and keeps moving forward in the face of challenges or new information.
• Embraces Cooperative Structure: Articulates what makes coops different and works successfully within the cooperative
The Personnel Committee and GM Search Committee are committed to a thorough and thoughtful process to find the best candidate to lead our organization forward. Our goal is to have a new GM in place around June 1.
If you have questions or comments for the Search Committee, please contact us via this link: bit.ly/PSFCgmquestion
A dedicated and highly motivated senior HR generalist with a passion for partnering with business leaders to achieve and exceed business objectives.
2moLove having you as part of the team Jay!