Market Manager

Job summary

The Market Manager oversees sales growth, operational excellence, and talent development across a cluster of 4-5 retail stores while directly managing an Anchor Store. They are responsible for coaching store leaders, analyzing financial performance, and ensuring consistent execution of brand and merchandising standards.

Job details

Some of what you will do: The Market Manager is a localized multi-unit retail leader responsible for delivering sales growth, operational excellence, customer experience, and talent development across an assigned market of approximately 4-5 stores, while continuing to directly lead one Market Anchor Store. The Market Manager is accountable for both Anchor Store performance and assigned market results, including sales results, customer experience, execution standards, coaching quality, operational consistency, talent development, and leadership bench strength. The Market Anchor Store serves as the market leadership, training, and execution hub for General Managers, Assistant Managers, Supervisors, and high-potential leaders. Specifically, You Will: Market and Anchor Store Leadership * Lead the assigned Market Anchor Store as a high-performing, standard-setting location that models strong sales routines, operational discipline, customer experience, talent development, and brand execution. * Maintain direct accountability for the Anchor Store’s day-to-day performance, including sales, contribution, labour management, customer experience, merchandising, compliance, associate engagement, and expense control. * Lead an assigned market cluster of approximately 4-5 stores by providing frequent coaching, follow-up, and execution support to store leaders within the market. Sales Growth and Customer Experience * Drive sales performance across the Anchor Store and assigned market by reinforcing customer-first behaviours, sales routines, conversion opportunities, basket-building behaviours, services attachment, and referral-based business development. * Identify sales gaps, customer experience opportunities, and priority stores requiring targeted support, then build practical action plans with store leaders. Operational Excellence and Execution * Ensure consistent execution of brand standards, merchandising standards, planograms, promotional readiness, inventory routines, task completion, health and safety expectations, asset protection routines, and privacy requirements across the Anchor Store and assigned market. Talent Development, Coaching, and Succession * Coach General Managers, Assistant Managers, Supervisors, and high-potential leaders within the assigned market through regular one-on-ones, store visits, observation, feedback, recognition, and action planning. * Partner with store leaders to identify talent gaps, succession opportunities, development plans, bench strength, and readiness for future roles. Financial Management and Performance Analysis * Monitor and analyze sales, margin, contribution, labour, customer experience, services performance, and operational dashboards for the Anchor Store and assigned market. * Review P&L results, sales dashboards, labour dashboards, customer satisfaction reports, conversion reports, training reports, and other business metrics to identify gaps and opportunities. Some of what you need: * Successful completion of high school is preferred. * Post-secondary education in business, retail management, operations, leadership, or a related field is considered an asset. * Strong business acumen with the ability to understand sales, margin, contribution, labour, customer experience, and operational performance. * Strong talent assessment and succession planning capability. * Strong comfort with dashboards, scorecards, reports, Microsoft tools, and internal communication platforms. * Ability to identify performance gaps, diagnose root causes, and build practical recovery plans. * 7+ years of progressive retail leadership experience preferred. * Previous General Manager, senior store leader, high-volume store leader, or equivalent multi-unit retail leadership experience preferred. * Demonstrated accountability for sales, service, customer experience, operational execution, labour management, and financial performance. * Proven experience coaching leaders, developing talent, building succession plans, and improving performance through follow-up and accountability. * Experience leading through change, executing company initiatives, and partnering cross-functionally with field and support teams. * Strong understanding of multi- store or big box retail store operations, merchandising, labour, AP, H&S, customer experience, services, and sales execution. Physical demands/working conditions: * Field-based retail leadership role. * Regular presence required in the Market Anchor Store with regular travel required to assigned market stores. * Schedule flexibility required to support store visits (including 2 weekends monthly), peak periods, business needs, training, meetings, and urgent operational issues. Some of what you will get: * Associate discount * Health and Dental benefits * RRSP/DPSP * Performance bonuses * Learning & Development programs * And more... #MakeAnImpact We value transparency in our hiring processes. Please note, artificial intelligence may be used in certain stages to screen, assess, or select applicants, however, a human reviewer makes all final decisions. This posting is for an existing vacancy. About the Team At Staples Canada we are dynamic, inspiring partners to our customers and the communities in which we live. 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What you’ll do

The Market Manager oversees sales growth, operational excellence, and talent development across a cluster of 4-5 retail stores while directly managing an Anchor Store. They are responsible for coaching store leaders, analyzing financial performance, and ensuring consistent execution of brand and merchandising standards.

Requirements

Candidates should have 7+ years of progressive retail leadership experience, including previous experience as a General Manager or multi-unit leader. Strong business acumen, talent assessment capabilities, and proficiency with retail dashboards and Microsoft tools are required.

Benefits

• Associate discount • Health and Dental benefits • RRSP/DPSP • Performance bonuses • Learning & Development programs

Listed skills

• Operational Excellence · Preferred
• Coaching · Preferred
• Sales Growth · Preferred
• Inventory management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Retail leadership
• Multi-unit management
• Sales growth
• Operational excellence
• Customer experience
• Talent development
• Coaching
• Succession planning
• Financial management
• P&L analysis
• Merchandising
• Inventory management
• Labour management
• Business acumen
• Performance analysis
• Sales Analysis
• Retail Operations
• Business Metrics
• Operational Performance Management
• Profit And Loss (P&L) Management
• Accountability
• Curiosity
• Talent Assessment
• Talent Development
• Planning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Asset Protection
• Business Development
• Business Acumen
• Dashboard
• Management
• Customer Service
• Sales
• Financial Management
• Leadership
• Internal Communications
• Leadership Development
• Operational Excellence
• Operations
• Performance Analysis
• Planogram
• Retail Management
• Succession Planning

Job areas

• Retail
• Management & Leadership
• Sales
• Customer Service & Support
• Market Manager
• Marketing Manager (General)
• Sales and Marketing Managers
• Marketing Managers