Pay Rate: Base = $65,000 per year. Estimated income after performance bonuses = $100,000 per year.

Address: 5058 Canton Rd. Marietta, GA 30066

Why join Super-Sod?

Super-Sod is an organization that has a 70-year reputation for outstanding leadership, innovation, and expertise. Our employees use their creativity and talent to invent new solutions, meet new demands, and offer the most effective services and products in the industry. With your active involvement, creativity, and support, Super-Sod will continue to achieve its goals.

Super-Sod offers a welcoming environment to both our customers and employees. Our teams work highly collaboratively and are proud of the dynamic culture which cultivates company-wide growth and teamwork. Super-Sod employees stand out as being industry professionals who offer knowledge, experience, and a passion to serve. In turn, the Company provides our family of employees’ competitive wage and benefit offerings to ensure their needs are exceeded and their own families are provided for. In addition to numerous awards for quality products, Super-Sod is honored to be consecutively named a Top Workplace by the Atlanta Journal Constitution year after year.

In addition to good working conditions and competitive pay, it is Super-Sod’s policy to provide a combination of supplemental benefits to all eligible employees. In keeping with this goal, each benefit program has been carefully devised. These benefits include flexible paid time-off, such as vacations and holidays, as well as comprehensive and innovative health and wellness plans that include products like medical, dental, vision, HSA, and supplemental life, accident, hospital, and critical illness. We are constantly studying and evaluating our benefit programs and policies to better meet present and future requirements. These policies have been developed over the years and continue to be refined to keep up with changing times and needs. 

Using discretion and independent judgement, the Store Manager will establish and implement short and long-range objectives for the assigned location, oversee related functions and activities, and administer company policies and procedures.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Analyzes and organizes sales operations for location(s).
Responsible for and oversees the delivery of products to all customers served by location.
Prepares weekly sales reports based on previous week and sets goals for future.
Represents the organization with all referral sources; customers, potential clients, partnering companies and vendors.
Communicates as needed with outside sales and home office concerning new developments and/or problems.
Responsible for review of sales goals to include customer call log, for confirmation of product delivery and ongoing customer satisfaction.
Works with quality improvement staff relative to sales tracking, performance review and location efficiency, as well as customer support and employee engagement.
Participates in the interviewing, hiring, training, and firing of employees.
Delegates referral process/coordination, staffing coordination, supply inventory, and oversees the completion of these processes.
Opens and closes facility a minimum of 30 minutes before/after normal business hours.
Performs other related duties as assigned.

Competencies

Leadership.
Personal Effectiveness/Credibility.
Ethical Conduct.
Technical Capacity.
Organizational Skills.
Project Management.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position manages employees within the retail store and is responsible for the performance, management, and hiring of the employees within the location departments.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional retail environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing systems and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, lift, push, pull, stoop, or bend. The employee frequently is required to walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. This employee requires full range of motion of arms and legs and requires movement and use of limbs; this position requires good manual dexterity and coordination. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift products and office supplies weighing up to 50 pounds.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours can change at the discretion of the Regional Manager; though typical hours of work are Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Saturday work required as job duties demand (typically during harvesting season, March-August from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m.).

Travel

This position may require up to 25% travel.

Required Education and Experience

3+ years of Retail Management experience.
2+ years of Team Supervision experience.
1+ year of experience with Agricultural Retail Management.
Face-to-face / Counter Sales and Customer Service experience.
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Marketing, Communication; or equivalent in experience

Preferred Education and Experience

2+ years of experience with turfgrass sod and seed in a retail setting.
Additional education in turf management, horticulture, or similar field of study.
Bilingual skills in English / Spanish are a big plus.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Must be 18 years of age or older.
All potential new hires will be subjected to a pre-employment background check and drug screen.
To perform essential job duties, all potential new hires must be eligible to drive a company vehicle according to Super-Sod insurance guidelines. Requirements:

1) Must possess a valid driver’s license

2) No major safety and moving violations reported on MVR within the past (3) years.

Major violations include:

Felony convictions
Automobile insurance canceled or not renewed by an insurance company due to excessive tickets, accidents, points, or fraud.
Convicted of alcohol or drug related offense while driving.
Convicted of three or more speeding violations or serious moving violations; moving violations include texting or cell phone violations.
Been involved in two or more chargeable accidents.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Reports to: Regional Manager

Classification: Exempt*

*Exempt: Employees primarily performing work that is not subject to overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Overtime pay is not required by FLSA for exempt employees and is not paid for this position.

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