Seeking great candidates who have retail operations experience, enjoy training others, have strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, loves retail, and wants to have a positive impact while developing a career at a thriving business!

Winmark Corporation is a premier, nationally recognized franchisor of Once Upon A Child®, Plato’s Closet®, Play It Again Sports®, Music Go Round® and Style Encore®. As a New Retail Store Development Manager, you will support franchisees in opening new resale retail stores. Work in a collaborative group setting to help create a tailored experience for new franchisees and guide them though the beginning operations of a new store. You will assist franchisees before their store opens, training essential skills, and helping the stores as they open to buy, grand openings to sell, and help create continued training programs. This role is pivotal to the successful onboarding of new retail store franchisees.

Primary qualifications for New Store Development Manager role include:

• 3-5 years experience in retail operations, retail sales, or merchandising; retail leadership experience desirable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, paired with the ability to present and train small to mid-size groups
• Strong relationship building skills with a high level of professionalism, tact, and diplomacy
• 2- or 4- year degree preferred in Business Management or related field; or a combination of education and relevant experience
• Demonstrate ethical standards, using confidentiality
• Computer literate
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently
• Requires frequent travel 2 – 3 days during the M-F work week, up to 50% of the weeks
• Must have a valid driver’s license

The New Store Development Manager role is onsite at Winmark’s Plymouth, Minnesota location, with up travel to new store locations. Annual salary is $48,000 - $58,000 DOQ, plus discretionary profit-sharing and great benefits package.

At Winmark Corporation you will work in collaboration with others who are passionate about cultivating strong relationships and those who want to make a positive influence on communities, while making a sustainable impact on the world. At Winmark you will discover what it’s like to work for a company where taking care of our people is genuinely a top priority – where we seek out those looking for a career, not just a job, and we offer exceptional benefits.

In exchange for your talent, Winmark offers rich health and welfare benefits such as a low premium, low deductible health plan, dental insurance, company-paid life and short-term disability insurance, generous paid time off, profit sharing, 401(k) retirement plan, and more. Open doors, relationships and taking care of our people are essentials of the Winmark culture; we offer career pathing, development opportunities and promote from within. Looking to surround yourself by people that help you become your best you, then let’s connect!

Keywords: Operations, Retail, Retail Management, Manager, Assistant Manager, Team Lead, Keyholder, Store Operations, Store Opening, Training, Merchandising, Leadership, Corporate Entry Level, Merchandising