Assistant Store Manager - Fort Wayne, IN

Save A Lot • Fort Wayne, IN

1d • $18 - $22 • Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Store Manager ensures an excellent customer shopping experience, drives sales growth and profitability, and creates an engaging environment for team members. The role leads the retail store and works to maintain company operational standards, supporting the Store Manager and leading the store in their absence. The Assistant Store Manager trains, motivates, mentors, coaches, and develops team members, and ensures compliance with company policies and applicable city, state, and federal requirements.

The position oversees day-to-day store operations, including customer service, merchandising, inventory, food safety, sanitation, safety, payroll administration, cash handling, loss prevention, and administrative processes. It also monitors key business metrics and uses operational and financial information to support sound business decisions.

The role involves physical work, including repeatedly lifting and transporting objects weighing 20–50 pounds, with some products weighing 50–80 pounds. The Assistant Store Manager may work in freezers, coolers, refrigerators, delivery trucks, and inside or outside the store in all weather conditions, and must be able to stand, walk, or move about for extended periods.

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.
• Proficiency in 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 throughout a shift; product may sometimes weigh 50–80 pounds.
• Ability to push, pull, grasp, twist, and use sawing motions for extended periods.
• Ability to work in freezers, coolers, refrigerators, delivery trucks, and inside and outside the store in all weather conditions.
• Ability to stand, walk, or move about for extended periods.

Nice To Haves

• Management or leadership experience supervising others, including experience with scheduling, merchandising, budgeting, and expense control.
• Leadership 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 in creating weekly team-member schedules.
• 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.
• Operate the store according to company standards in a way that maximizes sales and profitability and delivers a high-quality shopping experience.
• Maintain daily store conditions and department operations, including produce, meat, and center store operations; food safety; safety policies; power equipment operation; and sanitation standards.
• Manage key store-operation metrics, including sales, customer counts, labor productivity, and shrink.
• Analyze and use operational and financial data to make appropriate business decisions when responsible for the store or working alongside the Store Manager.
• Execute merchandising programs, including planograms, 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, freshness standards, and shrink exposure.
• Interpret sales data and trends to guide ordering and inventory procedures.
• Implement and ensure compliance with company 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 ongoing support to the Store Manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Medical insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Team Member Referral Program.
• Wellbeing Program.
• Career development opportunities.
• Health and welfare benefits for eligible full-time team members or team members averaging at least 30 hours per week.

What This Job Offers

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