Full-Time Assistant Store Manager

ALDI•Village of Lindenhurst, NY

21d

About The Position

The Assistant Store Manager assists with supervising day-to-day store activities and ensuring overall store performance. The role includes managing schedules, developing operational action plans, identifying team training opportunities, and supporting the direct leader with store operations. The position is full-time, averages 38 hours per week, and starts at $28.00 per hour, increasing to $29.00 per hour in Year 2. The Assistant Store Manager helps develop and implement plans to improve operating results, communicates expectations to direct reports, and supports their training and development. The role also involves monitoring the local competitive environment, providing product feedback, participating in interviews, communicating team updates, maintaining inventory and cash-control practices, addressing customer concerns when the direct leader is absent, and helping ensure store cleanliness, merchandising, product quality, and staffing and inventory targets. The position requires regular movement throughout the store, including sitting, standing, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, carrying, and walking. The employee must be able to stock merchandise and place products weighing up to 45 pounds on shelves at various heights. Duties may be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Must be 18 years of age or older.
Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
Ability to provide and lead others in providing prompt, courteous customer service.
Ability to develop rapport, trust, and open communication to support direct reports’ growth and job performance.
Ability to interpret and apply company policies and procedures.
Ability to establish goals and guide employee performance to ensure quality and completion of assignments.
Ability to evaluate and drive personal and team performance.
Ability to understand and apply management principles concerning budgeting, personnel costs, and expenses.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to stay organized, multitask professionally and efficiently, follow instructions, and attend to detail.
Meet applicable state and local requirements for handling and selling alcoholic beverages.
At least 3 years of progressive experience in a retail environment.
A combination of education and experience may provide equivalent knowledge.
Ability to sit, stand, bend, reach, push, pull, lift, carry, and walk about the store.
Ability to stock merchandise and place products weighing up to 45 pounds on shelving at various heights.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
Prior management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist the direct leader in developing and implementing action plans to improve operating results.
Establish and communicate job responsibilities and performance expectations to direct reports.
Identify training and development opportunities for direct reports.
Communicate and model company strategy and core values to foster teamwork and employee membership.
Monitor the community’s competitive environment and inform the direct leader of needed adjustments.
Provide product feedback and recommendations about new or discontinued items.
Participate in interviewing store personnel.
Communicate weekly information, team milestones, developments, and concerns.
Ensure store personnel follow inventory procedures, product-handling guidelines, and cash-control policies.
Resolve operational customer concerns appropriately when the direct leader is absent.
Identify and rectify hazards, ensure proper ergonomics, and maintain store equipment in working order.
Maintain store cleanliness standards and proper signage.
Assist the direct leader with maintaining stock levels through appropriate product ordering.
Merchandise products neatly to maximize sales.
Ensure product quality and freshness and accurate product signage.
Assist with store payroll and total loss budgets, inventory counts, and training new employees.
Supervise day-to-day team operations and escalate issues when necessary.
Ensure direct reports complete assignments promptly and effectively to provide a high level of customer service.
Comply with company policies and procedures and protect the security and confidentiality of documents and data.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Stock merchandise from receiving to shelving, including placing products weighing up to 45 pounds on shelves at various heights.
Operate a cash register efficiently and accurately.
Safely operate equipment including an electric or manual hand jack, floor scrubber, and cardboard baler, and perform general cleaning duties to company standards.