Service Manager

Job Title and Details

Service Manager – Grocery – FLSA:
Non-Exempt.

Provides prompt, efficient, friendly customer service, ensures that customer’s needs are met and supervises and coordinates activities of employees at all job levels.

• Must be 18+.

• Partnerships
• Growth mindset
• Results oriented
• Customer focused
• Professionalism

Accountable and

Reports to:

District Store Director;
Store Manager;
Assistant Managers of HWH, Perishables, Store Operations and eCommerce.

Positions that Report to you:
All positions except those listed above or designated by the Store Director.

• Maintains a positive attitude; creates an atmosphere of friendliness and fun through flexibility and teamwork.
• Generates a friendly atmosphere by encouraging employees to greet and speak to customers; providing prompt, courteous, and efficient service to customers and sets a good example.
• Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
• Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
• Makes an effort to learn customers’ names and to address them by name whenever possible.
• Assists customers by:
  • escorting them to the products they’re looking for
  • securing products that are out of reach
  • loading or unloading heavy items
  • making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests
  • performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
• Answers the telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call.
• Performs as a leader and role model and maintains positive employee relations.
• Plans, prepares, and adjusts work schedules and assigns employees to specific duties and follows up to ensure duties are properly completed in a timely manner.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of employees in all areas of the store (in Department Managers absence) or performs the work necessary at all job levels.
• Learns to formulate pricing philosophies or merchandise, following guidelines established by the Store Director.
• Ensures proper customer service throughout the store and addresses specific customer issues.
• Evaluates employee performance to recommend personnel actions in their respective area such as promotion, transfer, or dismissal.
• Trains and enforces safety procedures to provide a safe and healthy work environment for employees and customers and fills out customer accident forms.
• Works safely to prevent on-the-job injuries, fills out first report of injury, and assigns light duty as necessary.
• Compiles, stores, retrieves, and understands managerial data (i.e. sales, inventory reports, ad and display projections/actuals, etc.).
• Orders merchandise (new product, promotional, seasonal, or to replenish merchandise on hand), verifies delivery of merchandise, ensures quality, compares record with merchandise ordered, and reports discrepancies.
• Trains workers in store policies, department procedures, and job duties.
• Ensures compliance of employees with established policy/law, security, sales, and record keeping procedures and practices.
• Determines location of ad and promotional displays, ensures product quality and quantities to meet customer and store demands and profitability.
• Confers with employees and assists in solving problems affecting job performance and of established policies and procedures.
• Explains store services to potential personal and business account customers to generate additional business for the store.
• Understands the basics of store accounting.
• Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
• Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
• Reports to work when scheduled and on time.

• Determines the motivational needs of employees and provides the appropriate environment.
• Stays current with market trends and information (i.e.; competition, new products, equipment,…