Assistant Grocery Manager

Albertsons • Garland, TX

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About The Position

The Assistant Grocery Manager supports the Grocery Manager in overseeing daily Grocery Department operations. The role assists with driving sales, maintaining appropriate inventory levels, ensuring product availability and presentation, controlling shrink, and providing excellent customer service. It also supports the supervision, training, and development of department associates while ensuring company standards, policies, and procedures are followed.

The position helps lead department operations, including stocking, ordering and replenishment, merchandising, inventory management, and maintaining accurate pricing and promotional displays. It provides direction and support to associates, assists with staffing and scheduling needs, and helps create a positive, customer-focused work environment. The Assistant Grocery Manager also supports safety, sanitation, food-handling, loss-prevention, and expense-control practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the overall operation of the Grocery Department and provide leadership in the Grocery Manager’s absence.
• Ensure shelves, displays, endcaps, and promotional areas are stocked, organized, rotated, and maintained.
• Monitor product availability and assist with ordering and replenishment to support customer demand.
• Maintain accurate pricing, signage, tags, and promotional displays.
• Assist with receiving, stocking, backroom organization, and inventory management.
• Ensure proper product rotation and adherence to FIFO practices.
• Monitor inventory levels and help identify overstocks, out-of-stocks, and inventory discrepancies.
• Support department sales and merchandising initiatives.
• Execute company merchandising plans, resets, promotions, and seasonal displays.
• Maintain department appearance and presentation standards; identify opportunities to improve product placement, availability, and department conditions.
• Help ensure advertised and promotional merchandise is available and properly displayed.
• Provide direction and support to Grocery Department associates.
• Assist with training associates on department procedures, customer service expectations, stocking standards, and safe work practices.
• Delegate tasks and follow up to ensure assignments are completed accurately and on time.
• Promote teamwork and a positive, professional work environment; provide coaching and feedback as needed.
• Assist department leadership with staffing and scheduling needs.
• Provide friendly, responsive, and professional customer service; help customers locate products and answer questions.
• Help resolve customer concerns in a timely and professional manner and promote a customer-focused environment.
• Assist with inventory counts and department inventory processes.
• Monitor shrink, follow loss-prevention practices, and help identify causes of inventory discrepancies, damaged merchandise, and excessive product loss.
• Support department productivity and expense-control expectations.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe department and backroom.
• Follow company safety, sanitation, food-handling, and loss-prevention procedures; ensure associates follow policies and operating procedures.
• Promptly address or report potential safety hazards and maintain equipment and work areas according to company standards.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Access to up to 50% of earned wages before payday through a partnership with Stream
• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates, including medical, dental, and 401(k)
• Time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick pay
• Training, career growth, and development
• Inclusive work environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed