(USA) Store Manager - Division 1/Neighborhood Market
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 deficiencies, overseeing budget creation, and analyzing economic trends and community needs for forecasting. The Store Manager also directs management in facility operations, communicates operational direction to associates, and drives sales through effective merchandise presentation, accurate pricing, proper signing, in-stock and inventory levels. They ensure the success of the Academy training environment and store standards by meeting requirements, creating an engaging environment, integrating Academy associates, advising on training content, 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, establishing expectations, conducting performance evaluations, and promoting a sense of belonging. They promote and support company policies, values, and ethics, ensuring compliance and utilizing the Open Door Policy. The Store Manager also evaluates the effectiveness of plans and initiatives, consults with business partners, and participates 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
- 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, leading the management team in controlling expenses, and developing plans to correct deficiencies.
- Models, enforces, and provides direction on proper Customer service approaches and techniques to ensure Customer needs and complaints are 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, and integrating Academy associates.
- Advises Academy staff on training curriculum content and engages trainees during their store assignment.
- Serves as a visible operations champion in the Academy program, acting as an advocate across supported markets.
- Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying needs, developing plans, removing barriers, providing resources, and measuring progress.
- Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting, training, mentoring, assigning duties, building a team, establishing expectations, and conducting performance evaluations.
- Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
- Ensures business needs are met by evaluating the effectiveness of plans, consulting with business partners, and participating in community outreach events.
- Builds high-performing teams, embraces differences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen and supported, and creates opportunities for all associates to thrive.
- 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 and adapting to how, where, and when customers shop.
- Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis, balancing short and long-term priorities.
- 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
- Jury duty
- Voting leave
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
