Company description

Founded in 2006 and located in Three Oaks, Michigan, Granor Farm is a certified organic farm that cultivates a wide range of vegetables, berries, herbs, flowers and grains on over four hundred acres. Our Farm Store features all that we grow along with house made and regional foodstuffs. What we grow often become the ingredients for what we make. For example, our wood oven baked breads often use flour milled from our wheat and other grains. Our farming is complimented by an expanding educational programing, spirits distilled from our grains and in the future wines aromatized with our herbs, botanicals, and berries. Weekly farm dinners in our greenhouse along with our on-farm Farm Store showcase our crops and those of our farming community.

Job description

The Farm Store Manager is an integral member of our team of 20 employees. Your ability to curate and maintain inventory, optimize sales, and provide an exceptional customer service experience is critical to the overall success of our operation. The Farm Store Manager is charismatic, creative, and passionate about finding and curating high quality products to enhance Granor’s produce, spirits, and grains. We seek a leader who has the drive and capabilities to manage the execution and growth of our current farm store operations as well as lead the development, expansion, and implementation of future store offerings. Experienced leadership with an entrepreneurial disposition is critical in helping the farm store achieve its current business objectives and future growth goals, all of which enable us to support our sustainable, organic farming, research, education, and community engagement efforts. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of food, land, education, and community.

Title, Days/Hours, Compensation, Benefits
Position Title: Farm Store Manager
Customary Workdays: Thursday-Monday peak, Tuesday-Saturday off-season
Customary Work Hours: 7am-5pm during peak season, 8am-4pm during off- season
Compensation: Full Time Salaried $45,000 annually
Health Insurance: 100% Employer paid, after 90 days
Dental: 100% Employer paid, after 90 days
Vision: 100% Employer paid, after 90 days
401k Plan: Available after 12 months
HSA: Granor funded at $1500 per year subject to change

Duties and Responsibilities
Operations -

• Identify and curate a unique selection of local products (e.g., meats, cheeses, specialty items) that complement Granor’s mission and its produce and grains.
• Maintain inventory control, record keeping, and financial reporting.
• Lead the farm store staff in the day-to-day operations. This includes recruiting, training, and supervising staff and proactively managing employee considerations, including frequent check-ins and regular reviews.
• Proactively look at established sales data to drive staffing, ordering, and expectations for the upcoming weeks, quarters, and years.
• Maintain and establish new relationships with vendors.
• Coordinate weekly / seasonal in-store pick-up of CSA shares Protect employees and customers by providing a safe and clean store environment Administration
• Ensure all relevant administrative processes are completed accurately and on-time. This includes timekeeping and payroll processing, order placement and receiving, vendor account maintenance, and reconciliation of POS and cash handling activities.
• Develop and manage yearly budget, make purchasing decisions that align with the budget.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation and certification. Strategy
• Identify current and future customer requirements by establishing rapport with potential and existing customers.
• Work alongside Granor Farm management team to lead strategic thinking and business planning processes (including annual planning and budget development) of the Farm Store and relevant sales operations.
• Collaborate on the Farm Store’s marketing and communications, represent the Farm Store as a public face of the business.
• Work alongside farm founders and management team in the ongoing ideation, evolution, and change implementation of the farm’s facilities layout, user experience, revenue events, and aesthetics.

The Farm Store Manager will also work closely with other departments:

• Farm Coordination: work with the field team to organize and execute weekly farm store spread, layout, washing, packing, pricing, and product information. This also includes the coordination of wholesale orders and delivery for both vegetables and grains.
• Kitchen Coordination: communicate with the kitchen team about weekly offerings including pricing, availability, information, and feedback including ways to minimize waste by moving short dated items to the kitchen and economize deliveries with joint ordering where applicable.
• Distilling: participate in strategy to bring Granor-produced spirits to market and oversee customer facing communication about our spirits.
• Education: work actively with the Education Coordinator to economize visits from guest speakers by hosting them in the store. Participate in additional markets throughout Farm Camp weeks.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $35,568* - $50,000

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline