Assistant Store Manager - Elkhart, IN

Save A Lot • Elkhart, IN

1d • $18 - $22 • Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Store Manager (ASM) ensures an excellent shopping experience by focusing on customer service, sales growth, and profitability while fostering an engaging environment for team members. The ASM leads the retail store and helps maintain company operational standards, supporting the store manager and leading the store in their absence. The role includes training, motivating, mentoring, coaching, and developing team members, as well as ensuring compliance with company policies and applicable city, state, and federal requirements.

The ASM helps run daily store operations, including scheduling, opening and closing, building maintenance, food safety, sanitation, merchandising, inventory, loss prevention, cash handling, and payroll administration. The position is accountable for key operational measures such as sales, customer counts, labor productivity, and shrink, and uses operational and financial data to guide business decisions. The role also requires obtaining food safety certification in accordance with company policies and applicable requirements.

The position involves working in a fast-paced retail environment and regularly working in freezers, coolers, refrigerators, inside and outside the store in all weather conditions, and inside delivery trucks. Physical duties include standing, walking, reaching, bending, balancing, lifting and transporting objects, and pushing, pulling, grasping, twisting, and sawing motions.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Basic experience with electronic technology and communications.
• At least two years of management experience.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks effectively.
• Ability to complete administrative paperwork in a timely manner.
• Planning and analytical skills, including comprehension of profit and loss, budgets, and expenses.
• Strong leadership and time management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to reach, bend, balance, lift, and transport objects weighing 20–50 pounds repeatedly during a shift; product may sometimes weigh 50–80 pounds.
• Ability to push, pull, grasp, twist, and use sawing motions for extended periods.
• Ability to stand, walk, or move about for extended periods.

Nice To Haves

• Management or leadership experience supervising others, including previous experience in scheduling, merchandising, budgeting, and expense control.
• Leadership and/or management training.
• Bilingual ability, which is an advantage in certain locations.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coaching, and development to store team members regarding their tasks, duties, role requirements, and performance standards.
• Create a safe and positive store environment for team members and customers.
• Assist the store manager with creating the weekly team member schedule.
• Lead the store in the store manager’s absence, including opening and closing the store.
• Perform or coordinate building maintenance.
• Train, coach, mentor, and develop team members, and support the store manager with progressive disciplinary actions as required.
• Communicate effectively with store team members, store managers, district managers, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure the store operates according to company standards to maximize sales and profitability and deliver a strong shopping experience.
• Maintain daily store conditions and operations, including produce, meat, and center store departments; food safety; safety policies, including power equipment operation; and sanitation.
• Manage key store operations metrics, including sales, customer counts, labor productivity, and shrink.
• Analyze and use operational and financial data to make business decisions when responsible for the store or working alongside the store manager.
• Execute merchandising programs, plan-o-grams, displays, price signs, shelf tags, and loyalty programs.
• Maintain a full, fresh, clean, and friendly shopping environment.
• Manage inventory to meet store metrics and company standards for quality, freshness, and product rotation.
• Manage perishable products, including in-stock positions and conditions, fresh standards, and shrink exposure.
• Interpret sales data and trends to maintain appropriate ordering and inventory procedures.
• Implement and ensure compliance with policies and procedures, including accounting, cash handling, inventory, loss prevention, payroll, sanitation, food safety, documentation, policy violations, and administrative paperwork.
• Acquire food safety certification in accordance with company policies and city and state requirements.
• Provide support to the store manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Eligible full-time team members and team members averaging 30 or more hours per week may receive health and welfare benefits.
• Paid time off.
• Medical insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Team member referral program.
• Wellbeing program.
• Career development opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED