Store Manager, Retail & Store Manager

The Save A Lot Store Manager is responsible for creating an excellent shopping experience for all customers, driving sales growth & profitability, and establishing an engaging work environment for all team members. The Store Manager leads an assigned retail store and ensures and maintains store operational standards, key performance metrics, and targets set forth by the company. The Store Manager provides leadership to the full store team resulting in excellent daily store conditions and a positive work environment in a manner that maximizes sales & profitability and provides an excellent, unique and satisfying shopping experience for our customers.

The Store Manager is directly responsible for the recruitment, selection, training, motivation, coaching and development of their store team members to ensure we retain the best store teams and deliver best in class store operations. The Store Manager ensures all store team members comply with all Save A Lot policies and procedures, along with all City, State, and Federal requirements.

• Provides leadership, coaching, and development to their store team members regarding their tasks, duties, role requirements, and performance standards
• Creates a positive safe and clean store environment for team members and customers where they enjoy working and shopping
• Recruits talented, highly motivated, committed team members with positive attitudes who possess the skills and behaviors to successfully complete the role requirements using the established process, tools and resources set out by Save A Lot.
• Trains, develops, mentors and coaches all team members to success within their roles today and into the future by upskilling them using best practice tools and techniques
• Takes a genuine interest in the growth, development, and success of all team members through rigorous; job screening, feedback, teaching, mentoring, and progressive disciplinary actions as required to ensure performance standards are met
• Consistently and effectively communicates across all stakeholders, including but not limited to store team members, District Managers, Regional Directors, and other field team members
• Ensures the store is operated according to the operational standards set forth by the company and in a manner that maximizes sales, profits, and a world-class shopping experience for our customers
• Provides leadership that results in excellent daily store conditions to include, but not limited to, required daily produce/meat/center store department operations that fully adhere to Save A Lot’s operational standards and programs
• Maintains a clean, safe and secure work environment by owning the daily execution of Food Safety, Health & Safety and Compliance policies and practices in line with Company, Federal, State or City requirements
• Responsible for key metrics of store operations, including sales, customer counts, labor productivity, shrink and Customer Perception Audit (CPA) scores
• Analyzes, understands and utilizes operational/financial data to make appropriate and well thought out business decisions
• Responsible for merchandising program execution, all plan-o-grams, displays, price signs/tags, and COOL signage
• Maintains a high standard of operation for customers which includes a full, fresh, clean, and friendly place to shop which includes managing inventory levels to the specific metrics of the store and ensuring quality, freshness, and effective rotation practices to meet Save A Lot’s high standards
• Responsible for excellent fresh product offering and management, including in-stock positions, conditions, and shrink exposures
• Responsible for the implementation of and compliance with all Save A Lot policies and procedures; this includes, but is not limited to;
  Accounting procedures and practices, Cash Handling, Inventory Processes, Loss Prevention, Payroll Administration, Sanitation, Food Safety, Best Methods, CPA, documentation, policy violations, administrative paperwork, and initiating effective communication with the support team as needed
• Acquires Food Safety Certification in accordance with Save A Lot policies and City/State requirements
• Protects company property, funds and merchandise always
• Deals with DSD vendors and holding them accountable to our vendor policies
• Supports competitive environment research
• Strives to assist Save A Lot in becoming a Great Place to Work by acting as a trusted leader within the organization, who follows up on commitments, always takes responsibility, and acts with the team member and customer in mind
• Works within lives and acts as an ambassador of the Save A Lot Values statement

• Must be 18 years of age
• High School diploma or equivalent required
• Basic computer proficiency
• Minimum of three to five (3-5) years of management experience
• Management/Leadership experience supervising others along with previous experience in scheduling, merchandising; budgeting, and expense control preferred