(USA) Store Manager - Division 1/Neighborhood Market
About The Position
The Store Manager leads the facility’s operations, financial performance, customer service, merchandising, and associate development. The role ensures sales and profit goals are achieved through expense management, budgeting, forecasting, and corrective plans. It directs the management team and communicates with hourly associates about facility operations, merchandising, and company direction. The Store Manager champions Walmart’s Open Door Policy by listening to associate concerns, researching issues, and providing resolutions. The role also represents the company in community outreach, builds relationships with community groups, and encourages associates and managers to take part in community and sustainability efforts. The position is responsible for Academy store standards and the training environment, including supporting trainees, advising Academy staff, and participating in talent and succession planning across supported markets. It drives business plans and projects, removes barriers to performance, measures progress, and adapts plans as needed. The Store Manager selects, trains, mentors, and evaluates associates; establishes performance expectations; recognizes and coaches team members; and promotes a culture of belonging. The role models company policies, values, ethics, and compliance, supports continuous improvement, and evaluates plans and initiatives to meet business needs.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of general management experience, including financial accountability.
- At least 4 years of experience supervising 50 or more exempt and non-exempt associates or employees, including performance management, mentoring, hiring, and firing.
- Successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments.
- For facilities that sell firearms, successful completion of a firearms-specific Criminal Background Check and Firearms Authorized Training is required.
- For facilities that sell only ammunition and have state-specific requirements, a current state-issued Certificate of Eligibility may be required.
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
- Uphold the Company’s Open Door Policy by meeting with associates, listening to concerns, researching issues, reviewing policies and procedures, and providing resolutions.
- Lead community outreach and represent the company to community organizations; maintain relationships with community members and support company-sponsored events and sustainability efforts.
- Drive facility financial performance by achieving sales and profit goals, controlling expenses, developing corrective plans, overseeing budgets, and supporting forecasting.
- Model and guide customer-service approaches so customer needs, complaints, and issues are resolved within company guidelines.
- Direct facility operations and communicate with management and hourly associates about operations, merchandising, and company direction.
- Drive sales through effective merchandise presentation, accurate and competitive pricing, proper signing, in-stock and inventory levels, budgeting, forecasting, and assessment of economic trends and community needs.
- Ensure the success of the Academy training environment and store standards, including engaging trainees, supporting Academy staff, promoting customer service, and participating in talent and succession planning.
- Execute business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, communicating priorities, removing barriers, providing resources, measuring progress, and adjusting plans.
- Supervise and develop associates by selecting, training, mentoring, assigning duties, setting expectations, conducting evaluations, recognizing contributions, coaching, and promoting belonging.
- Promote company policies, procedures, mission, values, ethics, and integrity through training, guidance, compliance, and support of the Open Door Policy.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of plans and initiatives, consult stakeholders, apply suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and support community outreach events.
- Build high-performing teams, foster inclusion and collaboration, develop talent, and recognize associate contributions.
- Model integrity and accountability, support Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company, and contribute to belonging, waste elimination, and local giving.
- Put customers first, apply the EDLP and EDLC business models, and make decisions using data and analysis while balancing short- and long-term priorities.
- Encourage learning, calculated risk-taking, resilience, continuous improvement, and adoption of new technologies and skills.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase plan.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave.
- Parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- Live Better U education benefit, including eligible tuition, books, and fees paid by Walmart.
- Performance-based bonus awards, including annual or quarterly bonuses.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
