Store Manager Trainee

Harps Food Stores•Ferriday, LA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The Store Manager Trainee program is designed to develop individuals into store managers, typically taking from six months to a year. The program focuses on learning all store operations and functions. Trainees, under the oversight of a store manager, will gain experience in scheduling, application review and interviewing, new employee training, inventory control, merchandising, employee supervision and evaluation, and various record-keeping tasks. The program involves spending time in every department, shadowing department managers, and receiving feedback and coaching. The ultimate goal is to transition the trainee into a store manager position, potentially involving moves between stores to learn from different managers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
Proven leadership skills.
Knowledge in departmental processes and financial management practices in the retail supermarket industry.
Strong knowledge base in supermarket retail and core business practices that affect retail supermarket operations.
Ability to accomplish a win/win result in all negotiation processes.
Ability to be forward thinking and have global perspective, while delivering financial results with all initiatives.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to develop and maintain effective business relationships internally and externally.
Moves, lifts, carries and places merchandise and supplies weighing less than or equal to 25 pounds without assistance.
Frequently reaches overhead and below the knee, including pushing, pulling, squatting, kneeling, bending, stooping, crouching and twisting with or without bearing weight.
Occasionally required to climb and/or crawl.
Occasional repetitive motion with hand(s) and arm(s), such as grasping, gripping and turning.
Stands and/or walks frequently throughout shift.
Visually locates merchandise and other objects, at near and/or far distances, as well as verifies information, often in small print.
May be exposed to all weather conditions (hot, cold, rain, snow, ice and wind) as well as, inside work with variations in heat, cold, dust and humidity.
May be exposed to cleaning solvents or other chemicals.
May be exposed to latex, eggs, nuts soy and wheat.
Employment at Harps may be contingent upon completion and our evaluation of a PEP survey, RMAI assessment, Wonderlic assessment, personality assessment, drug screen, employment reference check, credit check and criminal background check.