• Proven P&L ownership and/or the ability to do so. You have carried real P&L responsibility and you can speak to the decisions behind the wins.
• Retail or hospitality leadership experience. Great if it’s in wine, beverage, specialty food, or a comparable category, but those with the drive and commitment will be considered.
• Strong commercial instincts. You understand margin, pricing, and inventory, and you act on that understanding.
• Genuine leadership. You hire well, develop people, and build a team that wants to perform.
• An owner’s mindset. You do not wait to be told. You see what the store needs and you move.
• Accountability. You own the good and the bad and lead from the front.
• Wine knowledge or a real appetite to build it fast. You will run weekly distributor tastings and select what goes on the shelf.
• Comfort working independently while collaborating openly with peers across the company.
• Full P&L responsibility for the location, from top line revenue to bottom line profit, implementing the tried and tested Wine Outlet business model.
• Purchasing and vendor relationships, including the weekly distributor tastings and wine selection process that builds the store’s inventory, with strong support from the Wine Outlet’s network of professionals and mentors.
• Implementing inventory management, pricing, and merchandising decisions for the floor that work across the model.
• Local outreach and marketing initiatives.
• Payroll and staffing, including hiring, scheduling, training, and developing your team.
• Day-to-day store operations, customer experience, and the overall health of the location.
• The growth strategy for your store and the execution that delivers it.
The Wine Outlet is hiring a Store Manager to run our Vienna location as an owner-operator. This is not a clock-in, clock-out store job. You run the store like it is yours, because the structure here moves you toward exactly that. At the Wine Outlet, managers share in the profits, make the calls that drive it, and experience the upside based on the store’s performance against benchmarks.
We built this role for an operator who wants real ownership over outcomes and real upside for delivering them. The right person treats every dollar of margin, every inventory decision, and every customer relationship as their own.
The Wine Outlet is a family of three neighborhood wine and specialty food shops in Northern Virginia. Our Vienna store, right on Church Street, is where folks come for great wine, good cheese, and the kind of friendly, no-pressure advice that keeps them coming back. Our beloved longtime manager is retiring, and we're looking for the right person to carry the store forward. If you want a role where your warmth, judgment, and hustle actually move the needle, this is the opportunity for you.