Wine & Spirits Assistant Department Manager
About The Position
Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service. Assists the Department Manager in presenting the freshest, most innovative, and best quality products at a competitive retail price to customers. This role involves supervising and assigning work for evening/part-time staff, ensuring department standards are met, handling customer issues, training new employees, and monitoring sales. The position also requires ordering merchandise, meeting with vendors, overseeing intercom selling, pricing items for displays, and making sales suggestions. A strong understanding of sanitation procedures and adherence to company guidelines for personal hygiene and dress are essential. The role also includes secondary duties such as assuming management responsibilities in the absence of the Department Manager, unloading trucks, cleaning display cases, monitoring equipment maintenance, and updating signage. The position requires the ability to follow instructions, perform arithmetic calculations, and guide people. The anticipated hourly starting wage is $18.00 to $22.50 depending on experience.
Requirements
- High School or equivalent experience.
- Six months or less of related work experience.
- Ability to follow written, verbal, or diagrammatic instructions; several concrete variables.
- Ability to do arithmetic calculations involving fractions, decimals and percentages.
- Ability to file, post, and mail materials; copy data from one record to another; interview to obtain basic information; guide people and provide basic direction.
- Must be physically able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally; exert up to 20 pounds of force frequently; and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or without correction, depth perception, color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), and field of vision.
- Must be able to perform the following physical activities: Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.
- Frequent exposure to equipment movement hazards and dangerous chemicals/solvents.
- Continuous exposure to noise, temperature extremes, dampness, and occasional exposure to electrical shock.
- Fast paced work environment with significant pressure.
Nice To Haves
- Supervisory experience (Direct Reports): Instructing, assigning, and reviewing the work of others, maintaining standards, coordinating activities, allocating personnel, and acting on employee problems.
Responsibilities
- Provides prompt, efficient, and friendly customer service.
- Assists Department Manager to present the freshest most innovative and best quality products at a competitive retail price to customers.
- Stocks, rotates, and faces product on shelves.
- Supervises and assigns work for evening/part time crew.
- Ensures department standards are met.
- Handles and satisfies customer issues.
- Trains new employees.
- Reviews out of stocks, ad items, and back stock.
- Orders merchandise as directed by department head and controls inventory.
- Monitors sales regularly.
- Meets with vendors to get point of purchase (POP) materials and other sales-enhancing items when available.
- Oversees intercom selling.
- Prices items for displays.
- Makes sales suggestions and ideas to department manager.
- Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area is always clean and neat.
- Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
- Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
- Reports to work when scheduled and on time.
- Assumes management duties in absence of Department Manager.
- Unloads truck and ensures product is stocked in appropriate area.
- Cleans display cases and monitors maintenance of equipment and floors.
- Reviews price tags and updates signage as needed.
- Assists in other areas of store as needed.
- Performs other job related duties and special projects as required.
Benefits
- For information on company benefits visit Benefits | Hy-Vee.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
