Grocery Manager

Associated Grocers Of New England • Shelburne, VT

99d

About The Position

The position involves managing the grocery department, ensuring outstanding customer service at all times. Responsibilities include ordering various grocery items, managing inventory, and ensuring proper receiving, unloading, storage, and rotation of merchandise. The role also requires creating and maintaining signage and displays, calculating margins, and ensuring accurate pricing on shelves. Collaboration with vendors is essential to provide the best pricing and quality products for customers. The position demands maintaining cleanliness and organization of grocery shelves, developing product knowledge, and creating weekly schedules while adhering to safety and health regulations.

Requirements

• Ability to prioritize work tasks, multi-task and maintain focus
• Strong customer service skills & effective communication
• Must have flexible schedule availability
• Computer knowledge
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with a wide range of customers, employees, and management
• Must be 18 years of age or older

Responsibilities

• Provide at all times Outstanding Customer Service
• Perform and manage all ordering for the grocery department (candy, dairy, frozen food, grocery, grocery tax, HBC, magazines/cards, newspapers, soda)
• Responsible to ensure proper receiving, unloading, storage, and rotation of merchandise and building of displays
• Create and ensure proper signage and displays throughout the department
• Perform and manage department inventories
• Calculate margins and make sure pricing is correct and clear on the shelves
• Ensure the Receiver has current-to-date pricing information, so items are retailed at the register correctly
• Work closely with vendors to ensure you are receiving and offering the best pricing, new items, best quality, and appropriate items that your customers will love and appreciate
• Ensure shelves are properly blocked and rotated daily
• Ensure grocery shelves are maintained, cleaned and organized
• Develop product knowledge in all areas
• Create weekly schedule(s)
• Strictly adhere to all safety, health regulations
• Support and comply with all company safety/security standards

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods