Assistant Store Manager (New Leader Onboarding)
On-siteBrownsville, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Direct all business processes at the assigned store, driving sales growth and managing inventory, labor, and expenses to meet targets. Lead a team of approximately ten people, including Department Managers and Receivers, by modeling leadership behaviors, providing constructive feedback, and coaching leaders on performance and development. Oversee the entire store in the absence of the Store Manager, ensuring compliance with safety, food safety, and all legal regulations through audits and emergency resolution. Manage P&L ownership, including ordering, receiving, stocking, and rotating merchandise while maintaining top item conditions and accurate pricing. Verify product freshness, label accuracy, and sale prices, and lead backroom organization, cleanliness, and safety initiatives. Communicate expectations, policy changes, and new initiatives to the team, exercising independent judgment on hiring, promotion, and disciplinary decisions.
Required Qualifications
- Be at least 21 years of age
- 1-3 years of retail experience
- Have demonstrated success leading non-perishable and perishable department operations with integrity, including profit and loss, safety, sanitation, staffing, disciplinary actions, training, developing leaders, conducting performance appraisals, meeting deadlines, managing inventory and shrink, executing sales promotions, and merchandising
- Professional communication skills, both written and verbal, along with attention to detail, analytical, and solution-focused decisiveness
- Be proficient in Microsoft Office, bookkeeping/accounting, time and attendance, and human resources software
- Be flexible to work a schedule that changes based on business needs, including nights, weekends, and holidays
- Have and maintain Food Safety certification
- Able to lift 60 pounds between 15 inches and 70 inches above the ground, lifting heavier items is required occasionally
- Pushing and pulling racks and U-boats of merchandise is common throughout a typical day. Push and pull force required ranges from 80 pounds to 100 pounds
- Stand on hard surfaces continuously, walk up to 2 miles, reach vertically to access upper levels, and transfer items horizontally
- Wear PPE consistent with the task assignment, including but not limited to non-slip, closed-toe shoes, long pants, and gloves (latex and or cut-resistant)
- Tools and equipment used include, but are not limited to, phone, computer, mouse, keyboard, ovens, freezers, meat and cheese cutters, grinders, scales, mixers, box cutters, scanners, cash register, carts, and pallet jacks
Desired Qualifications
- a degree in business management, marketing, retailing, communications, advertising, or related field preferred
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