General Manager
Now Hiring! General Manager
Ukiah Natural Foods Co-op is a thriving community-owned cooperative in Ukiah, California. What started as a buying club in the mid-70s is now a full-service grocery store that serves as the center of a vibrant food, arts, and cultural scene in the picturesque Russian River watershed.
The co-op seeks an innovative leader with experience building strong and high-functioning teams, working collaboratively, solving complex problems, and leading through change. Our next GM brings a track record of success in the retail grocery industry and fresh ideas for what the future of Ukiah Natural Foods might look like.
Ukiah is a small and diverse community of 16,000 located in the North Coast region of California. With clean air and water, diverse recreational opportunities, wineries, and proximity to the Pacific Coast and the San Francisco Bay Area, this community offers something for everyone. The city boasts picturesque landscapes, parks, trails, a thriving local arts scene, and a good variety of public, charter, and private schools all with a small community feel.
The Co-op strives to accommodate the diverse diets of our customers, while contributing to environmentally-sound food production through its commitment to organics, local and regional food, goods, and services sourcing, and healthy lifestyles. The co-op’s mission, vision, and commitment to our core values are at the forefront of everything we do, and the GM provides leadership to ensure the achievement of our goals within that context.
The GM oversees all aspects of co-op operations including finance and planning, operations, personnel, and marketing. They also cultivate our relationships in the Ukiah community and promote our core values of integrity, quality, customer service, community, leadership, and prosperity.
The GM reports to the Board of Directors who are elected by the members and are responsible for governing the co-op as well as oversight and delegation to the GM.
Required Qualifications
- Financial Management and Reporting
- Team Building and Leadership
- Change Management
- Business Planning and Project Management
- Retail Grocery Management Experience
- Problem-Solving Ability
- Accountability
- Ease with Transparency
- Courage
- Integrity
- Visioning
- Strategic thinking
- Innovation
Highly Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a retail natural foods and/or cooperative grocery environment
- Adaptability
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Developing People
- Collaborative Leadership Style
- Self-motivated
- Models Excellent Performance
- Open Mindedness
- Working with a Board of Directors
Salary and Benefits:
- $120,000-$145,000 commensurate with experience
- Bonus
- Paid vacation, sick leave and holidays
- Health Insurance
- 20% Purchase Discount
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
See full job description at: https://www.ukiahcoop.com/careers
To apply, please submit resume with cover letter to: [email protected]
Position will be posted until filled.
Ukiah Natural Foods Co-op is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. People of color, people with disabilities, veterans, women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and members of other historically marginalized or hard-to-employ communities are encouraged to apply.
All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, sex, marital or parental status, disability, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis prohibited by law.
