Liquor Department Manager

As a primary contact for Safeway customers, the Liquor Manager provides friendly, courteous, and helpful service. Liquor Manager is held accountable for the department’s results in providing superior service, increasing sales, improving gain, and containing costs. Trains, supervises, schedules, and assigns duties to Liquor Clerks. Follows division guidelines for implementation of merchandising programs. Changes signs and prices as directed by merchandising.

Inventories floor stock daily. Orders merchandise for store and checks order for department shrink. Responsible for maintaining appropriate store inventory. Operates computerized cash register and credit card scanner, totals customer’s liquor purchases, takes payment, makes change and sells small items. Oversees beer, wine, and liquor area and replaces stock as needed. Rotates and reworks the stock in cooler for convenience of access and display.

Provides customer service and advises customers on liquor purchases. Responsible for overall cleanliness of the department. Follows company tobacco and liquor sales policies. The position is hourly non-exempt. The Liquor Manager reports to Store Manager, 1st and 2nd Assistant Manager or Person in Charge.

• Provides customer service as defined by the employer within the scope of the position and within company policy.
• Trains, schedules, and supervises Liquor Clerks to ensure optimum staffing patterns are met in the department.
• Speak with customers to resolve problems with sales, dissatisfaction with service or product, or other problems related to the operation of the Liquor Department.
• Face shelf to company standards.
• Maintain cleanliness of liquor area of the store.
• Replace stock in displays.
• Perform daily inventory and order necessary product quantities from vendor.
• Responsible for accurate inventory procedures to include checking load for shorts and maintaining backroom area. Maintain all paperwork in files.
• Return excessive product to backroom and inventory and complete BRI.
• May make signs to indicate price of items on display.
• Receives payment for customer purchases and counts back correct change.
• Adheres to Federal, State, local laws. Adheres to safety policies and store rules. Adhere to tobacco and liquor sales policies.
• Other duties as assigned.