Travel Center General Manager
Paducah, KYFull-time$54–81K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Pilot Flying J seeks an experienced Retail General Manager to oversee high-volume retail facilities. The role is responsible for developing and executing travel center and restaurant business plans to meet standards, sales and profit objectives, and customer satisfaction goals. The manager builds and develops teams, drives sales, manages inventory and team members, and performs P&L analysis. The position requires 2–3 years of relevant management experience and a flexible schedule.
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Company Description
Pilot Company is an industry-leading network of travel centers with more than 30,000 team members and over 750 retail and fueling locations in 43 states and six Canadian provinces. Our energy and logistics division serves as a top supplier of fuel, employing one of the largest tanker fleets and providing critical services to oil operations in our nation's busiest basins. Pilot Company supports a growing portfolio of brands with expertise in supply chain and retail operations, logistics and transportation, technology and digital innovation, construction, maintenance, human resources, finance, sales and marketing. Founded in 1958 by Jim A. Haslam II and currently led by CEO Adam Wright, our founding values, people-first culture and commitment to giving back remains true to us today. Whether we are serving guests, a fellow team member, or a trucking company, we are dedicated to fueling people and keeping North America moving. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Military encouraged to apply.
Job Description
Pilot Flying J is seeking an experienced Retail General Manager to oversee our high-volume retail facilities. You will be responsible for the generation and execution of travel center and restaurant business plans to achieve established standards, sales and profit objectives as well as customer satisfaction.
The Retail General Manager will also be:
- Ensuring that customer expectations are met
- Conducting meetings with subordinate employees
- Maintaining effective vendor relationships
As a Retail General Manager for Pilot Flying J, you will build, coach, manage and develop teams from a staffing, interviewing, hiring and training standpoint. Additional responsibilities for the Retail General Manager include:
- Driving sales
- Managing team members
- Tracking inventory
- Providing customer service
- Performing P&L analysis
Pay Rates Starting between: $54,300.00 - $80,750.00 / year
Qualifications
As a Retail General Manager, you must exemplify integrity and accountability at the managerial level as well as demonstrate excellent team leadership skills. Furthermore, you must be able to work a flexible schedule of nights, days, weekends and holidays.
Additional requirements of the Retail General Manager include:
- Minimum 2-3 years of management experience in the retail, restaurant, grocery or other service industry with responsibility for financial results
- Previous management proficiency in high volume retail with P&L accountability
- Ability to create and maintain a customer focused culture
Additional Information
- Fuel Discount
- Nation-wide Medical Plan/Dental/Vision
- 401(k)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption Assistance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Flexible Schedule
- Weekly Pay
How this job compares
Set against the 8,063 open Operations Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$54–81K/yr
- Kentucky median$80–106K/yr87 salary ranges
- US median$84–115K/yr4,800 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $68K, is 24% below the Kentucky median midpoint ($89K) — in the lowest quarter of Operations Manager salary ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 175 open Operations Manager jobs in Kentucky and 8,063 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Amazon14 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Operations Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (6,110 postings).
- Education
- 1,592 of the 8,063 open Operations Manager jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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