Trainee Store Manager

**Driven by Passion for 100 Years**

**Repco** is Australia's leader in Automotive Aftermarket Parts and is one of the most widely recognised brands in the Australian and New Zealand markets. Our brand stands for quality, expertise and knowledge. At Repco, our team members are valued and appreciated. Every day we deliver careers and experiences that are both challenging and rewarding. We have fun at work and celebrate our achievements and milestones, both big and small. And we passionately focus on results and continuous improvement.

Seeking experienced team leaders or managers who are looking to move on, try something new, enter a new industry, or diversify their skillset, and who would like to step into a role where the training will be thorough and provide a wide range of experience.

Store Managers are at the core of our business, where recognition and celebration form part of our daily mantra. If you enjoy building meaningful relationships with customers, team members and the local community then we're the place for you Opportunities exist for talented leaders to join Repco and learn about our business, parts and customers (operating retail and trade concurrently), before taking the reins of their own store.

You may not have thought of the aftermarket parts industry as offering amazing career opportunities, but the average Repco team member has a tenure of 8.5 years. Repco is owned by aftermarket giant, GPC Asia Pacific, enabling our team members to have endless future career opportunities.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a leader to join a progressive, successful, growing company, and maybe even **enter a completely new industry**.

**Trainee** Store Managers**:

- You will consider yourself to be a proactive and driven individual who leads by example, demonstrating a high level of enthusiasm, commitment and customer service excellence. In addition you will have:

- Leadership / supervisory experience ideally working in large format retail stores;
- Understanding or Exposure to store financial reporting including P&L (operating report), Rosters and Budgets;
- Worked within a team to deliver results;
- Be comfortable liaising and building relationships with customers and company stakeholders;
- Work towards KPIs and targets at a swift pace;
- Finally you have a passion for the automotive industry and Repco products.

**The successful individual will**:

- Be a passionate customer service expert
- Be able to motivate their team members to shine, develop and succeed
- Have store operations management experience and success leading and engaging a team
- Have experience within a dual format sales environment, trade product, or multi network operation
- Have a flexible availability and hold a valid driver’s licence (manual preferred)
- Have the physical capacity to perform the duties of the role, including handling products of a heavy nature

**We can offer you**:

- Recognition programs and team incentives for your performance
- An inclusive team environment; our team are important members of GPC
- The opportunity to join a progressive global company that continually strives to remain the number one in the automotive aftermarket
- Ongoing training and career development; we genuinely care about supporting you to reach your full potential
- Discounts internally and with external partners including health providers
- We proactively support our working parents in a variety of meaningful ways, and our parental leave top-up allowance is one of the ways we do this
- Paid volunteer leave allowing you to give back to your chosen charity/community organisation
- Access to GPC’s exciting employee platform MOVE, unlocking amazing discounts at top retailers, business announcements, e-cards and our employee recognition program, plus so much more

**Thank you for your interest in becoming part of GPC Asia Pacific.