Store Manager - Dayton, OH

Save A Lot•Dayton, OH
•$52,000 - $65,000

About The Position

The Store Manager is responsible for creating an excellent shopping experience for customers, driving sales growth and profitability, and establishing an engaging work environment for team members. The role leads an assigned retail store, maintaining operational standards and performance targets while ensuring excellent daily store conditions and a positive work environment. The Store Manager leads the full store team and is responsible for recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, coaching, and developing team members. The role also ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and applicable City, State, and Federal requirements. The Store Manager oversees store operations, merchandising, inventory, fresh-product quality, customer service, food safety, health and safety, compliance, loss prevention, and administrative processes. The role is accountable for key operating and financial metrics, including sales, customer counts, margins, labor productivity, shrink, and EBITDA, and uses operational and financial data to make business decisions. The position requires physical activity, including standing and walking for extended periods, handling objects weighing up to 50 pounds repeatedly, and occasionally lifting up to 100 pounds with assistance. Work includes time in freezers, coolers, refrigerators, delivery trucks, and inside and outside the store in all weather conditions.

Requirements

  • Must be at least 18 years of age.
  • High school diploma or equivalent required.
  • Basic computer proficiency.
  • Three to five years of management experience.
  • Effective oral and written communication skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and tasks effectively.
  • Ability to complete administrative paperwork in a timely manner.
  • Proficient planning and analytical skills, including comprehension of profit and loss, budgets, and expenses.
  • Strong time-management, planning, and organizational skills.
  • Ability to reach, bend, balance, lift, and transport objects weighing up to 50 pounds repeatedly throughout a shift; at times, lift up to 100 pounds with assistance.
  • Ability to stand, walk, or move about for extended periods.
  • Ability to push, pull, grasp, twist, and use sawing motions for extended periods.
  • Ability to work regularly in freezers, coolers, refrigerators, delivery trucks, and inside and outside the store in all weather conditions.

Nice To Haves

  • Management or leadership experience supervising others.
  • Previous experience in scheduling, merchandising, budgeting, and expense control.
  • Leadership and/or management training.

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership, coaching, and development to store team members regarding their duties, role requirements, and performance standards.
  • Create a positive, safe, and clean store environment for team members and customers.
  • Recruit talented and motivated team members using the company's established processes, tools, and resources.
  • Train, develop, mentor, and coach team members to support success in their current roles and future growth.
  • Support team-member growth and performance through screening, feedback, teaching, mentoring, and progressive disciplinary actions as needed.
  • Communicate effectively with store team members, District Managers, Regional Directors, and other field team members.
  • Operate the store according to company standards to maximize sales, profits, and the customer shopping experience.
  • Lead daily store conditions and produce, meat, and center-store operations in accordance with company standards and programs.
  • Maintain a clean, safe, and secure work environment and execute food safety, health and safety, and compliance practices in line with company and applicable government requirements.
  • Manage key store-operation metrics, including sales, customer counts, margins, labor productivity, shrink, and EBITDA.
  • Analyze and use operational and financial data to make business decisions.
  • Execute merchandising programs, plan-o-grams, displays, price signs and tags, and COOL signage.
  • Maintain a full, fresh, clean, and friendly shopping environment.
  • Manage inventory levels, product quality and freshness, and rotation practices according to company standards.
  • Manage fresh-product offering, in-stock positions, product conditions, and shrink exposure.
  • Implement and ensure compliance with company policies and procedures, including accounting, cash handling, inventory, loss prevention, payroll, sanitation, food safety, documentation, and administrative processes.
  • Obtain Food Safety Certification in accordance with company policies and City/State requirements.
  • Protect company property, funds, and merchandise.
  • Work with DSD vendors and hold them accountable to vendor policies.
  • Support research into the competitive environment.
  • Act as a trusted leader who follows through on commitments, takes responsibility, and considers team members and customers.
  • Represent and uphold the company's values.
  • 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 30 or more hours per week
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