Assistant Store Manager - Retail Region Bench

Overview

Final date to receive applications: 02/09/2026

Pay: $58,180.00 annually

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

Do you have management experience in retail, restaurant, hospitality, production or similar industries? Do you have significant customer service, financial/monetary, production/inventory, and staff management experience? Have you led a team of 20 to 30 employees? Our Bench Assistant Manager position may be the opportunity for you!

If you are passionate about supporting your community, and are a highly motivated individual who is sales driven, goal oriented and thrives on continuous improvement, apply today. Geographically we are looking for the Denver Metro Area including Denver, Arvada, Aurora, Golden, Lakeside, and Lakewood area.

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.

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. They 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.

JOB SUMMARY:

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.

The 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.

Goodwill Retail Centers 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.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Retail Store Assistant Manager

• 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 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 department.

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of and adhere to Goodwill policies, the…