Assistant Store Manager - Fort Collins Store

Assistant Store Manager - Fort Collins Store

Final date to receive applications: 01/09/2026

Pay - $58,180.00 Annually

This is a great opportunity for a local management job with a growing organization that is employee focused. This position offers you the opportunity to play an influential and visible role as our company grows. Training will begin immediately to prepare you to be responsible for effective and efficient management of a Store. This is not an entry-level management position.

The Assistant Manager, Retail Center will manage the daily operations of a Retail Center, in an Assistant Manager role. The Assistant Manager acts as Retail Center Manager in the Manager’s absence. As a Retail Center Assistant Manager, you will support your Retail Center’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 Center 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.

Assistant Managers will be held accountable for their performance and along with their Retail Center Manager will be held accountable for the performance of their Retail Center. An Assistant Manager 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 Center Manager’s responsibilities for budgeting, financial reporting, and profit and loss.

• Work closely with the Retail Center 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 Center on the Operations and Sales Safety Sub‑committee.
• 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 System.
• Empower, lead, and manage Retail Center staff, ensuring safety, productivity, and success.
• Oversee daily operations of all Retail Center functional areas to include: sales floor, store front, donation center, production areas, moving product internally, and storage facilities.
• Directly responsible for the hiring, performance management, employee goal setting and recommendations toward termination related to the employees in at least one (1) department.
• Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of and adhere to Goodwill policies, the Employee Handbook, safety standards, and all numbered/supplemental policies.
• Partner with the Retail Center Manager to conduct meetings for employee training, awareness, and knowledge transfer.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• A High school diploma or equivalent is required; some college is preferred.

• At least 2 years supervising retail operations (or similar) with experience of being held accountable and responsible for the success of the business, operations and financial results of a function or department.

• Organizational skills to manage multiple projects, people, and Retail Center functions.
• The ability to work within a…