(USA) Store Manager - Division 1/Neighborhood Market

Wal-Mart Stores East • Sumter, SC

7d • 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, controlling expenses, and developing and implementing plans to correct any deficiencies in financial performance. This role also involves leading the management team in facility operations, communicating company direction, and ensuring effective merchandise presentation, accurate pricing, proper signing, and optimal stock and inventory levels. The Store Manager is expected to champion company-sponsored programs, events, and sustainability efforts, and to uphold the company's Open Door Policy by addressing associate concerns and fostering a culture of belonging. Additionally, the Store Manager plays a key role in the Academy training environment, ensuring store standards are met and creating an engaging atmosphere for trainees. This includes advising on training curriculum, engaging trainees, and acting as a culture champion and advocate across supported markets. The role also involves providing supervision and development opportunities for associates, promoting company policies and values, and ensuring business needs are met through continuous improvement and collaboration.

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 (for example, Academy trainings, Open Door trainings, etc.).

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Upholds the Companys Open Door Policy by meeting with Associates, listening to concerns, researching issues, reviewing Company policies and procedures, and providing resolutions.
• Initiates, directs, and participates in community outreach programs, encouraging Associates and managers to serve as good members of the community.
• Drives the financial performance of the Facility by ensuring that sales and profit goals are achieved, controlling expenses, and developing and implementing plans to correct any deficiencies in financial performance.
• Models, enforces, and provides direction and guidance to hourly Associates and managers on proper Customer service approaches and techniques.
• Directs the management team in facility operations and communicates with both management and hourly associates about facility operations, merchandising, and company direction.
• Drives sales in the Facility by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, including accurate and competitive pricing, proper signing, in-stock and inventory levels, budgeting, and forecasting sales.
• Ensures the success of the Academy training environment and store standards by meeting the store requirements as defined in the Academy Store standards and standard operating procedures.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training, mentoring, assigning duties, building a team-based work environment, establishing performance expectations, conducting regular performance evaluations, providing recognition and rewards, and coaching for success and improvement.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application.
• Ensures business needs are met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives, consulting with business partners, managers, coworkers, or other key stakeholders, and soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Acts with Integrity by maintaining and promoting the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, modeling the Walmart values, and supporting Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company.
• Serves Our Customers and Members by delivering results while putting the customer first, considering and adapting to how, where, and when customers shop, and applying the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
• Strives for Excellence by displaying curiosity and a desire to learn, taking calculated risks, demonstrating courage and resilience, and encouraging learning from mistakes.

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
• Jury duty
• Voting leave
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U education benefit program (for full-time and part-time associates, covers tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)
• Performance-based bonus awards

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager