Assistant Store Manager (61119)

HOMELAND STORES•Seminole, OK

41d•$44,880 - $48,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Store Manager's purpose is to manage store operations to achieve maximum sales and profit while maintaining optimum store conditions. This role involves ensuring every customer receives prompt, courteous, and friendly service. As an employee-owned company, our mission is to offer quality food choices, support local farmers and producers, and develop and reinvest in our employee owners. This position offers the opportunity to begin an ownership journey.

Requirements

Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/co-workers/employees concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment.
Ability to read and write English; able to read instructions, merchandise labels, warehouse order codes, numbers, reports printed paper and forms.
Make decisions concerning: the placement of merchandise on the shelf/display, pricing, allocation of shelf space, employee scheduling, expense control, order of product/supplies, hiring/supervision of employees, merchandising plans, departments operational policies and procedures and the sales/promotion of merchandise.
Good interpersonal communications.
Knowledge of regulations/laws that would apply to operation of the business: Wage & Hour, Family Medical Leave Act, OSHA, ADA, EEO, Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, Nutrition Labeling & Education Act, Weights and Measures etc.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or equivalent.
Prior Grocery Store experience.
Prior experience as an Assistant Store Manager.

Responsibilities

Manage the store to ensure prompt, courteous, and friendly service to every customer.
Attain sales, profit, expense, and labor budgets.
Work with Department Managers to achieve budgeted inventory levels for each department.
Work with Department Managers to achieve standards of performance and productivity for each department.
Complete/review reports including shrink, productivity, ad markdown, DSD price changes, display performance, out-of-stocks, safety store audit, transfers, credits, and reclaim.
Perform/direct the ordering of merchandise and supplies from the warehouse and authorized vendors.
Perform/direct the receiving and handling of merchandise and supplies.
Perform/direct all store opening and store closing procedures.
Maintain the new items and discontinued items program on a weekly basis.
Maintain an outstanding store condition program, including floors, windows, shelving, and equipment maintenance.
Maintain effective back door and front-end security procedures, including enforcement of store employee purchase policies.
Maintain an effective store safety and fire prevention program.
Direct, through proper supervision, that all DSD products are authorized, checked in properly, recorded in the DSD System/Price Book, and SRP updated on the front-end systems.
Assure, through proper supervision, that all merchandise is checked out through the front end at the correct price.
Assure, through proper supervision, that all price changes are properly completed on the front-end system and shelf tags.
Assure prompt and accurate service at the front end and service departments by properly supervising the training and scheduling of personnel.
Ensure all customer requests and/or complaints are handled with courtesy.
Conduct store meetings with the Store Manager to review merchandising, sales planning, and operating problems.
Keep employees informed about matters concerning their jobs.
Perform/supervise the selection, hiring, and training of store employees.
Make effective use of available training programs and materials.
Determine store needs by performing a store walk, at minimum daily, including the backroom, in conjunction with the Store Manager.
Communicate the needs of each area (department) of the store to Department Managers.