Store Manager CV Example (Ireland)

Convenience retail in Ireland runs on symbol groups and forecourts: a shop that trades from six in the morning until eleven at night, with a hot deli, a coffee dock, an off-licence, fuel pumps and a lottery terminal, owned by an independent retailer under a national brand. The owner or the group's retail operations manager who reads a Store Manager CV wants to know the size of the shop you ran, how the deli and the forecourt performed, what you did about waste, shrink and wage cost, and whether the HACCP, licensing and health and safety files would pass an inspection tomorrow.

The Sample CV below is for a Store Manager with eleven years in convenience and forecourt retail in County Louth, now running a 24-hour forecourt store with a deli, an off-licence and a team of 28. Its bullets give the weekly turnover band and the team size before the results, then pair each number with the change behind it: the deli production plan that cut waste, the roster rebuilt under the banded hours rules, the off-licence training that closed a licensing gap, the assistant manager promoted into a store of their own.

Tailor it to the owner. A family-owned forecourt wants someone who can do every job on the floor and open at six; a group-owned store wants audits, standards and the group's systems; a supermarket symbol store wants fresh and grocery ranging; a fashion or phone store wants conversion and average sale. The US counterpart of this page is the store manager resume example, written for American retail chains on one Letter page; an Irish Store Manager CV runs to two sides of A4 and the Chronological template keeps each store and its numbers in order.

Updated . The person and employers in this Sample CV are fictional. Written for applicants in Ireland; the page for applicants in the US is the store manager resume example.

Store Manager sample CV

Drawn at A4 proportions, the paper an Irish CV is printed on.

Shane Mulrooney

Store Manager, 24-Hour Forecourt and Convenience Store, Deli, Off-Licence and Team of 28

Dundalk, Co. Louthshane.mulrooney@example.com085 555 0152

Summary

Store Manager with eleven years in Irish convenience and forecourt retail, the last five running stores, currently a 24-hour forecourt store on the edge of Dundalk with a hot deli, a coffee dock, an off-licence and a team of 28. Took the store through a full refit and a change of symbol group without losing a trading day, cut deli waste and wage cost against budget in the same year, and brought the HACCP, licensing and safety files to a standard that passed the group's audit first time. Two of my assistant managers now run stores of their own.

Experience

Store Manager, Castletown Cross Service Station

– Present

Dundalk, Co. Louth

  • Run a 24-hour forecourt store with a weekly turnover in the band above a quarter of a million euro, a hot deli and coffee dock, an off-licence, eight pumps and a team of 28 across three shifts.
  • Rewrote the deli production plan around the morning and lunch peaks and introduced a fixed-time markdown, bringing deli waste under target in every month since and lifting food-to-go sales with the same four staff.
  • Rebuilt the roster to comply with the banded hours rules and the Organisation of Working Time Act, cutting wage cost against budget while keeping the night shift double-staffed for safety.
  • Led the store's change of symbol group and refit, managing the shopfitters, the new EPOS and the range change while trading throughout, and retrained the team on the new ordering system in a fortnight.
  • Own the HACCP folder, the off-licence staff training records, the fuel and forecourt safety checks and the monthly health and safety walk; the group's compliance audit scored the store highest in the region last year.
  • Coached two assistant managers through the group's development programme; both were appointed to run stores of their own within the county.
Assistant Store Manager, then Store Manager, Ardee Road Daily Stores

–

Ardee, Co. Louth

  • Appointed Store Manager after fourteen months, running a town-centre convenience store with a deli, a post point and a team of 16 trading seven days.
  • Reduced shrink at the half-yearly stocktake through a new delivery check routine and a tighter back-door procedure, and held it there for three stocktakes in a row.
  • Introduced the store's first local supplier range of bread and vegetables, which became the fastest-growing category in the store.
  • Handled the store's first Workplace Relations Commission query over a disciplinary case with the group's HR adviser, and rewrote the store's induction so every new starter signed the policies on day one.
Deli Supervisor, Cooley Peninsula Foodhall

–

Carlingford, Co. Louth

  • Ran a hot deli and sandwich counter with six staff for a store serving a busy tourist town, producing to a daily plan and keeping the HACCP records that the environmental health officer inspected twice a year.
  • Trained every new deli starter on HACCP, allergen labelling and the counter's cleaning schedule.
  • Covered the duty manager shift two evenings a week, including cash-up, the lottery terminal and the alarm.

Education

QQI Level 6 Certificate in Retail Management

Louth Institute of Further Education, Dundalk, Co. Louth

Part-time over two years while an assistant manager; modules in retail finance, people management and employment law.

Leaving Certificate

Castlebellingham Community School, Castlebellingham, Co. Louth

Skills

  • P&L, wage cost and budget
  • Deli production planning and waste
  • Shrink, stocktakes and delivery control
  • Rostering under the banded hours rules
  • HACCP and allergen compliance
  • Off-licence and age-restricted sales compliance
  • Forecourt and fuel safety checks
  • Symbol group audits and standards
  • EPOS, ordering and planograms
  • Recruitment, induction and disciplinary procedure
  • Coaching assistant managers
  • Cash management and lodgements

Certifications

  • HACCP Level 2 Food Safety, Louth Institute of Further Education,
  • Responsible Service of Alcohol, off-licence, Symbol group training programme,
  • Manual Handling Instructor, Boyne Valley Safety Training,
  • Occupational First Aid Responder, Boyne Valley Safety Training,

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How an Irish CV differs

An Irish Store Manager CV is read by the shop's owner, a symbol group's retail operations manager or a recruiter who specialises in grocery, and it is a two-page document that describes each store before it claims a result. Convenience retail here is unusual in how much of it is independently owned under a national symbol brand, so the CV has to say who owned the store, which group it traded under, what it had (deli, off-licence, forecourt, post point, lottery) and how many people worked in it. Compliance takes up more of the page than in the American resume this page pairs with: HACCP, the off-licence, the banded hours rules and the forecourt's safety file are the manager's personal responsibility.

For a store manager in Ireland

  1. Describe the store, then the result

    Give the format, the trading hours, the weekly turnover as a band, the departments and the headcount in the first line of each role. A result such as cut waste means nothing until the reader knows it was a deli serving a town centre or a forecourt on a national road.

  2. Owner, group and symbol on the page

    Say whether the store was owner-operated or group-owned and which symbol group it traded under. The two are different jobs: an independent owner wants a manager who runs the whole business, a group wants one who runs its standards.

  3. Compliance is your record

    List the HACCP level you hold, the off-licence training, the health and safety and manual handling certificates, and the audit and inspection results. In Ireland these are the manager's responsibility, and an owner will ask for them at interview.

  4. Employment law in plain words

    Mention the banded hours rules, the Organisation of Working Time Act and any Workplace Relations Commission matter you handled correctly. A manager who knows the law protects the owner, and owners know it.

  5. Referees from the owner or the group

    Two referees are expected, usually the owner or your operations manager and a previous one. Write that they are available on request, and make sure the current one knows you are applying before a recruiter rings.

Every CV in Ireland

A4 paper
The page is A4. Irish employers print and file on A4, and a Letter-sized PDF is the first sign a CV was written for the US.
Two pages is normal
Two pages is the norm for an Irish CV. Graduates fit one; nobody needs three unless the role is senior.
No photo
No photo, date of birth or marital status. Irish employers do not ask for them, and leaving them off keeps the page about the work.
Dates as DD/MM/YYYY
Day, month, year where a full date appears; month and year for each role. The US month-first order confuses the reader.
Irish English
Irish English follows British spelling: organise, programme, centre, licence, specialise.
Town or Dublin postal district, not a street address
"Dublin 8" or "Cork" is enough on the contact line. A full address is not expected, and the US-style "City, ST 12345" line never is.

More on applying in Ireland, with every CV example for it, on the Ireland page.

Templates for the store manager CV

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How the CV changes with experience

The same store manager CV, written at three levels: a profile and three bullets for each.

Entry level

Zero to two years, or a first post in the title

Assistant Store Manager in a convenience store with four years on the floor, ready for a first Store Manager post in a small symbol store or forecourt.

  • Run the store for three days a week when the manager is off, including ordering, the roster and the cash office.
  • Took over the deli's waste reporting and brought it under target within two months.
  • Trained on the group's EPOS and ordering system and inducted every new starter this year.

Mid level

Three to seven years, owns a process or a workload

Store Manager with six years running a town-centre convenience store trading seven days with a deli, an off-licence and a team of 18.

  • Hold wage cost and waste within budget while growing deli and coffee sales year on year.
  • Passed every symbol group audit and environmental health inspection in the last four years.
  • Promoted two supervisors to assistant manager through the group's programme.

Senior

Eight years or more, leads people, budgets or programmes

Area Manager for a group of nine convenience and forecourt stores across the north-east, accountable for their combined P&L, standards and management teams.

  • Oversee nine store managers and around 220 staff, with monthly trading reviews against each store's budget.
  • Led the opening of two new forecourt sites, from recruitment and fit-out to the first trading week.
  • Introduced a group-wide waste and shrink dashboard that every store reviews weekly.

Skills to put on the store manager CV

Hard skills

P&L and wage cost
An owner or operations manager reads a Store Manager on the profit line, and wage cost as a share of sales is the number they ask about first.
Deli and food-to-go
The deli is where an Irish convenience store makes its margin and loses it to waste, so a manager who can plan production is worth more than one who can only order grocery.
HACCP and licensing compliance
An environmental health inspection or a test purchase at the off-licence can close a store or cost its licence, and the manager is the one accountable.
Rostering and employment law
The banded hours rules, the Organisation of Working Time Act and Sunday premiums shape every roster in Irish retail, and a manager who gets them wrong ends up at the Workplace Relations Commission.
Shrink and stocktakes
Stocktake results are reported to the owner and the group, and a manager who can explain and reduce shrink is trusted with a bigger store.
Forecourt and safety management
Fuel, a car wash and a 24-hour shop bring safety and security duties that a shop-only manager has not had, and forecourt owners look for them specifically.
Symbol group systems and audits
Each group has its own EPOS, ordering and standards audit; naming the ones you have run on shortens your induction.

Soft skills

Leading a mixed team
A convenience store team is students, part-timers and long-serving full-timers across three shifts, and holding standards across all of them is the job.
Calm with owners and inspectors
You answer to an owner who watches the numbers daily and to inspectors who arrive unannounced, and both notice how you handle pressure.
Developing people
Groups promote managers who produce the next managers, and the assistant you trained is the clearest evidence you can give.

Mistakes that cost store manager interviews

  1. A result with no store behind it

    Increased sales and reduced costs tells the reader nothing about the scale you managed. State the format, the turnover band, the departments and the team size first, so each result has a store to belong to.

  2. Leaving compliance to the interview

    HACCP, the off-licence, forecourt safety and the employment rules are what an owner worries about overnight. If the CV does not show you own them, the owner assumes you do not.

  3. Quoting the owner's confidential numbers

    Weekly turnover and margin belong to the owner, and a CV that prints them exactly tells the next owner what you will do with theirs. Use bands and percentages of budget instead.

  4. No deli

    Food-to-go is the most profitable and the most wasteful part of an Irish convenience store, and a Store Manager CV that never mentions it reads as a grocery-only manager. Give the production planning, the waste result and the counter team.

  5. Writing it like an American retail chain resume

    District, associates, loss prevention and a one-page layout belong to the US page. An Irish convenience CV says owner, symbol group, team, shrink and stocktake, and uses two sides of A4.

  6. No people results

    Owners and groups promote the managers who grow the next ones. Name the supervisors you made assistant managers and the assistants who went on to run stores.

Write bullets with the XYZ formula: what changed, the number that shows it, and how you did it, in one line.

Questions about the store manager CV

How long should a Store Manager CV be in Ireland?

Two sides of A4. The first page carries your profile, your current store with its numbers and your certificates; the second carries earlier stores, your education and the referee line. An area manager with several sites can use most of a third page, but a single-store manager does not need it.

Should I include the store's turnover on my CV?

Use a band, such as a weekly turnover in the band above a quarter of a million euro, rather than the exact figure. It tells a reader the scale of the store without disclosing an owner's private numbers, and it is the way symbol group recruiters talk about stores themselves.

Do Irish retailers ask for a qualification before they promote to Store Manager?

No. Most Irish store managers came up through the floor, and the symbol groups run their own management programmes. A QQI Level 6 in Retail Management or a retail supervision apprenticeship helps and shows you studied the finance and employment law side, but it does not replace a store you can describe.

What gets an Assistant Store Manager the step up to their own store?

Show the days you ran the store alone, the department you owned end to end, such as the deli or the off-licence, and a number you moved, such as waste or shrink. Owners hire a first-time manager for a smaller store on the strength of what they already ran, so write those as results rather than as duties shared with your manager.

What should a forecourt manager add that a shop manager does not need?

Fuel deliveries and the tank checks, the forecourt safety file, the car wash, the 24-hour trading pattern and the security measures for night staff. Forecourt owners read for them, and a convenience manager who has not run a forecourt should say which of them they have covered as a duty manager.

How do I tailor the CV to a different retailer?

Move the most comparable store to the top, swap the headline for the advert's title and make sure each store's description uses the words that retailer uses for its departments. Paste the advert into Resume Master and it reorders and rewords the CV around that store's priorities, with the numbers kept exactly as you wrote them.

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