Assistant Store Manager - Region Bench

Final date to receive applications: 07/10/2026

Pay: $58,180.00 annually

* All applicants are required to attach a resume to their application to be considered for this position.*

Geographically we are looking for the Denver Metro Area including Denver, Arvada, Aurora, Golden, Lakeside, and Lakewood area.

Full Time employees in Retail are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Life/Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Flexible Spending Accounts, Long Term Disability, and several voluntary supplemental benefit offerings. In addition, these positions are eligible for paid time off in the form of vacation, sick, holiday, floating holiday, jury duty and bereavement leave. All employees may also make pre‑tax or post‑tax (Roth) contributions to our retirement plan – must be 18 years of age to participate.

Goodwill of Colorado is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) eligible employer.

This position is eligible for Daily Pay!

The Assistant Manager, Store, will manage the daily operations of a retail store, in an Assistant Manager role. The Assistant Manager acts as the Retail Store Manager in the Manager's absence. As a Retail Store Assistant Manager, you will support your retail store's responsibility for meeting financial goals to generate the income and donations necessary to support the mission operations and community programs provided by Goodwill of Colorado.

Assistant Managers must be empowering leaders who not only have the ability to operate and manage several diverse departments within the retail store but also have the ability to inspire and develop their staff. Assistant Managers must be hands‑on professionals who take an active role by “rolling up their sleeves” to achieve success. The Assistant Managers will be held accountable for their performance and along with their Retail Store Manager will be held accountable for the performance of their retail store.

Assistant Managers must have the ability to accomplish profitability through managing daily operations such as merchandising, donation collection, loss prevention, point‑of‑sale systems, product quality control, product “sweet‑spot” pricing, build community rapport, and customer relations with an “Attitude of Gratitude”, and empower staff and employees to create and accomplish both professional and personal goals. In addition, the Assistant Manager will support the Retail Store Manager's responsibilities for budgeting, financial reporting, and profit and loss.

Goodwill retail stores must successfully collect donations, produce products/merchandise from those donations, manage waste, recycling, warehousing, and merchandising of donated products, price competitively and provide excellent customer service to achieve optimal performance.

Working with a team of retail professionals, you will help ensure we make the best use of our resources to help achieve our mission of helping people within our community reach their highest level of personal and economic potential. The Assistant Managers will be team players who can manage change while motivating and inspiring others.

• Work closely with the Retail Store Manager to achieve goals and objectives and to increase sales and donations.
• Recommend changes to operational procedures in order to achieve maximized expense-to-revenue ratios.
• Promote safety for all employees, ensuring that your store adheres to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and CARF standards. May be the Safety Representative for the retail store on the operations and sales safety sub‑committee.
• Uses and becomes certified on pallet jack, walkie stacker, forklift, hand dolly, or other equipment or tools to effectively train, oversee safety standards, move and store donated product when needed.
• Maintain a functional awareness of competition and retail trends, being able to suggest appropriate courses of action.
• Maintain a strong knowledge of the point‑of‑sale (POS) system.
• Empower, lead, and manage retail store staff, ensuring safety, productivity, and success.
• Oversee daily operations of all retail store functional areas to include: sales…