Store Manager - Division 1/Neighborhood Market

Walmart • Lowell, MA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Store Manager is responsible for driving the financial performance of the facility by ensuring sales and profit goals are achieved. This includes leading the management team in controlling expenses, developing and implementing plans to correct financial deficiencies, overseeing budget creation, and analyzing economic trends for forecasting. The Store Manager also directs the management team in facility operations, communicates company direction, and ensures effective merchandise presentation, accurate pricing, proper signing, and optimal stock and inventory levels. A key aspect of the role is ensuring the success of the Academy training environment and store standards, creating an engaging atmosphere, integrating Academy associates into leadership activities, advising on training curriculum, and acting as a culture champion. The Store Manager provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting, training, mentoring, assigning duties, building a team, setting expectations, conducting performance evaluations, and promoting a sense of belonging. They also promote and support company policies, values, and ethical standards, ensuring compliance and utilizing the Open Door Policy. The role involves evaluating current plans, consulting with stakeholders, and participating in community outreach.

Requirements

• 4 years general management experience to include financial accountability.
• 4 years’ experience supervising 50 or more exempt and non-exempt associates/employees to include the responsibility of performance management, mentoring, hiring, and firing.
• Successful completion of all job-required trainings and assessments (e.g., Academy trainings, Open Door trainings).

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Leadership through Live Better U and Bellevue University
• Experience running a fresh or dry grocery area

Responsibilities

• Upholds the Company's Open Door Policy by meeting with Associates, listening to concerns, researching issues, reviewing policies, and providing resolutions.
• Initiates, directs, and participates in community outreach programs, encouraging Associates and managers to serve as good community members.
• Drives the financial performance of the Facility by ensuring sales and profit goals are achieved, controlling expenses, and developing plans to correct deficiencies.
• Models, enforces, and provides direction on proper Customer service approaches and techniques to ensure Customer needs are successfully resolved.
• Directs the management team in facility operations and communicates with Associates about facility operations, merchandising, and company direction.
• Drives sales by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, accurate pricing, proper signing, in-stock and inventory levels, and assessing economic trends.
• Ensures the success of the Academy training environment and store standards by meeting requirements, creating an engaging environment, integrating Academy associates, advising on training curriculum, and engaging trainees.
• Acts as a visible operations champion for the Academy program, welcoming trainees, speaking on business experience, and acting as an Academy advocate.
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying needs, developing plans, removing barriers, providing resources, measuring progress, and adjusting performance.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting, training, mentoring, assigning duties, building a team, setting expectations, conducting performance evaluations, and promoting a belonging mindset.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Ensures business needs are met by evaluating current plans, consulting with business partners, and participating in community outreach events.
• Works collaboratively, builds strong and trusting relationships, and communicates with impact, energy, and positivity.
• Attracts and retains talent, empowers and develops talent, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance.
• Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
• Delivers results while putting the customer first, considering how, where, and when customers shop, and applying EDLP and EDLC business models.
• Makes decisions based on data insights and analysis, balancing short and long-term priorities, and considering all stakeholders.
• Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, and encourages learning from mistakes.
• Drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement leave
• Jury duty leave
• Voting leave
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption expense reimbursement
• Surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U education benefit program (tuition, books, and fees paid by Walmart for eligible full-time and part-time associates)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed