General Manager

Job Description

Job Description

We are growing and have an immediate opening for a General Manager.

The Choice Fitness General Manager is responsible for the overall operational and financial performance of the club, including profitability, asset management, accounting compliance, member satisfaction, sales, personnel training, and employee development. He or she ensures the fiscal effectiveness of all profit centers and provides leadership to accomplish overall departmental objectives. Our General Manager will work hand in hand with their management team to guarantee operational excellence.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Financial Performance & Sales:

• Accountable for the daily, monthly, and yearly financial performance of the club while driving revenues and managing expenses.
• Assists the Membership Department to ensure that goals are met.
• Works in collaboration with the Operations Team and Front Desk consultants to ensure the club is meeting or exceeding the daily, monthly, and yearly membership forecast.
• Works in collaboration with the Personal Training Department to ensure the club is meeting or exceeding the daily, monthly, and yearly personal training forecast.
• Ensures that the ancillary departments are achieving or exceeding revenue targets by providing the guidance and direction the team needs to effectively hit these goals.
• Prepare the club’s success daily by putting a plan and effectively communicating that plan to the team on how to reach the daily goals.
• Reviews the biweekly payroll submissions and reports on hour’s changes and communicates PTO to payroll.
• Creating strategies to ensure the vision (forward thinking) i.e.: need new trainers, front desk staff, always looking forward.

Team & People Management:

• Maintains managerial oversight for all departments (Membership Sales, Front Desk Personnel, Personal Training, Kids Choice, Group Exercise and Maintenance) and communicates regularly with department heads regarding the performance of each department.
• Understands the company’s Mission Statement, core values and overall culture of the business, leading by example and holding all employees accountable to the spirit of Choice Fitness.
• Works closely with department heads on making the decision to hire all sales and training staff at the club.
• Recruitment, interview and ultimately make the decision to hire new employees into the club.
• Authorizes and approves all staffing changes including new hires, promotions, and terminations.
• Schedule all front desk employees to ensure the club is staffed properly to hit their goals while staying within the parameters of the payroll budgets.
• Effectively manage and communicate Policies and Procedures and make sure they are being uniformly enforced.
• Creates a positive and healthy workplace that fosters constant and never-ending improvement.
• Provides the time to coach, train and develop each staff member’s sales and customer service skills through practice and training.
• Provides feedback and positive reinforcement on a regular basis to encourage and motivate staff.
• Arranges meetings with underperforming staff to provide a coaching session and a progress improvement plan.

Communication:

• Meets with the Fitness Manager daily to strategize on how to get the personal training department to goal. Takes the time to coach and teach the Fitness Manager.
• Ensures the Fitness Manager meets with the Personal Trainers daily to make a plan on how each individual trainer is going to get to goal each month. Takes that time to coach and teach how that trainer will be successful.
• Holds a production meeting daily with the Front Desk staff and takes the time to coach and teach what needs to be done to get to Membership goal.
• Attends Monthly management meetings with Senior Management and fellow GMs/AGMs/FMs to discuss company items.
• Conducts monthly reviews of their employees and ensures the Fitness Managers conducts monthly reviews with personal trainers.

Quality Control:

• Personally, conducts or appoints staff members to walk through of their club hourly to ensure that the equipment, locker rooms and overall facility maintenance are meeting Choice standards and is promoting our brand.
• Ensures that all club marketing and materials are accurate and up to date.
• Oversee the inventory of the club and takes measures to manage loss.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and maintaining relationships with the customers to ensure great member experience.

Club Management:

• Carry and conduct themselves as if they are always the owner of the business.
• Committed to delivering excellent member service and operates as the “mayor” of the club by greeting members by name, walking the floor to shake hands and build rapport.
• Educates and enforces new club policies and procedures and ensures consistency.
• Responds quickly to member issues and complaints in a timely and courteous fashion.

Education & Experience:

• A University degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
• 3+ Years of leadership and people management of large cross-functional teams including proven success in leading, coaching, and motivating teams to achieve goals and objectives in a consumer-facing service-oriented environment.
• Related industry experience required.

Competency Requirements:

Integrity & Trust: Demonstrates consistently sound personal and business ethics and behaviors. Builds trust with others through openness and candor. Communicates intentions, ideas, and feelings openly and directly.

Sales Strategy Development: Quantifies and prioritizes available opportunities for achieving sales performance objectives. Identifies future sales-related trends, creates clear action plans for achieving results and adapts strategy to changing conditions.

Customer Focus: The ability to identify and respond to current and future customer's needs.

Accountability: Takes responsibility for all work activities and personal actions; follows through on commitments; implements decisions that have been agreed upon; maintains confidentiality with sensitive information; acknowledges and learns from mistakes without blaming others; recognizes the impact of one’s behaviors on others.

Initiative: Identifies opportunities and issues, and proactively acts and follows through on work activities to capitalize or resolve them.

Negotiation Skills : Effectively explores alternatives and positions to reach outcomes that gain all parties support and acceptance.

Safety : Places high value on workplace safety of self and others; maintains a clean environment. Identifies potential hazards and pursues corrective actions; follows established safety policies and procedures.

Communication Skills : Conveys information accurately, concisely, and compellingly to a variety of audiences and adapts communication methods based on situation.

Coaching Skills: Provides timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/ skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem.

Business Acumen : Fosters knowledge in policies, practices, trends, and information affecting the business and/or industry.

Continuous Improvement: Originates action to improve existing conditions and processes using appropriate methods to identify opportunities, implement solutions, and measure impacts.

Managing Change: Encourages others to seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches to addressing problems and opportunities, facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace.

Teamwork: Actively participates and fosters an environment that sustains a collaborative approach to working with others.

Decision Making : Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; compares data from different sources to draw conclusions; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences. The ability to make decisions and solve problems involving varied levels of complexity, ambiguity, and risk.

Building Partnerships: Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.

Conflict Management: Prevents, manages, and/or resolves conflict.

Inspires Vision : Articulates a clear image of the future or sense of purpose and inspire others to believe and work towards it.

Influencing Others : Gains others' support for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions.

Forward Thinking : Anticipates the implications and consequences of situations and takes appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies.

Choice Fitness offers the Most Choices at a health club.
You can choose to do your own workout routine. Choose exciting Group Exercise classes featuring Hot Yoga, Spinning, Les Mills & MORE! Choose to get help with your health & wellness goals from our Certified Personal Trainers.
Now It’s YOUR CHOICE to Get Healthy at Choice Fitness!

Company Description

Choice Fitness offers the Most Choices at a health club.\r\nYou can choose to do your own workout routine. Choose exciting Group Exercise classes featuring Hot Yoga, Spinning, Les Mills & MORE! Choose to get help with your health & wellness goals from our Certified Personal Trainers.\r\nNow It’s YOUR CHOICE to Get Healthy at Choice Fitness!