The general ground is shifting, and Big Lots wants a COO in AZ who sees Innovation as the way through. What makes this Big Lots role different is the ownership; the $223,000 - $431,000 and full-time hours are just the entry fee.
Key Responsibilities
- Sense when a Tempe relationship needs a call, not an email
- Pressure-test assumptions before they harden into expensive mistakes
- Earn the trust to make endlessly-iterating judgment calls without a committee
- Absorb 15 of context fast and start contributing sooner
- Notice the quietly-relentless gap between the spec and the shipped thing
- Close the loop on every Tempe request you touch
- Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable AZ regulations
- Contribute to process improvements that boost efficiency and reduce waste
What You'll Bring
- A knack for Attention to Detail that colleagues quietly come to rely on
- The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
- Ability to learn new general systems quickly and apply them effectively
- A point of view, held loosely and defended well
- An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent
- Enough Critical Thinking to be dangerous, enough Relationship Building to be trusted
- Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
Plenty of firms claim to do general; Big Lots actually does it, and from Tempe no less, with a deeply collaborative stubbornness about quality. We swap Innovation and Relationship Building tips over lunch because nobody here pretends to know it all.
We start the conversation at $223,000 - $431,000 and end it with mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to grow without relocating from AZ.
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