Retail Assistant Store Manager - Perishable​/Non-Perishable

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$72,020.00/yr - $93,626.00/yr

To assist the General Store Manager in general management duties and to share responsibility for the store’s operation and performance, in particular, the perishable departments. To coordinate and direct the overall operations of the store in the absence of the GSM. To ensure growth, profitability, customer satisfaction, and associate morale in his/her product areas and storewide.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure proper ordering, handling, prepping, and rotation of all perishable department products. Monitor quality, freshness and variety on a regular basis.
• Promote impulse sales and optimum department sales mix through creative and well-merchandised displays.
• Review the IBM/Micro Strategies weekly item movement reports with the department heads.
• Review quarterly department performance with each department head and GSM.
• Carry out the instructions/weekly plan of the perishable supervisor.
• Ensure customer goodwill by promoting and maintaining the highest standards of customer service. Handle requests and/or complaints in a courteous and timely fashion.
• Knowledgeable to perform all of the duties of an experienced clerk in all perishable departments.
• Encourage and promote a high level of associate morale. Generate enthusiasm among associates by creating a work environment conducive to teamwork.
• Ensure that regular department meetings are scheduled.
• Communicate, observe and enforce all store rules and company policies to department heads, associates, vendors, and service people.
• Maintain a neat, well-groomed personal appearance at all times to set a good example.
• Monitor and enforce punctuality in shift working hours of all perishable department associates and ensure their compliance with the company’s time clock policies.
• Observe all local, state and federal health and civil code regulations & ordinances throughout the store.
• Ensure that all department associates comply with safety policies and procedures; encourage safety suggestions and participation in the store’s Safety Committee meetings.
• Ensure proper merchandising, maintenance and clearance of all seasonal items.
• Ensure that store associates keep refrigerated coolers and shelves fully stocked and faced to the maximum extent possible according to tag allocation and department standards.
• Ensure that all price changes implemented in a timely manner.
• Ensure that all ad merchandise is properly priced, displayed and signed and that the prices of items in the previous week’s ad promotion have been restored to normal.
• Ensure that all displays are built for maximum sales and profits, are neat and colorful, include tie-in merchandise when applicable, and are properly signed.
• Encourage department heads to promote sampling, and cross merchandising to stimulate consumer interest and create excitement within the department.
• Provide the GSM with weekly updated messages for the in-store repeater broadcast with input from the department head.
• Inspect the store on an ongoing basis for compliance with company standards and regulatory agencies’ requirements; identify deviations and with GSM take corrective action to achieve compliance through the appropriate department head.
• Maintain proper allocation of in-store selling space for maximum sales and profitability.
• Keep all controllable expenses to a minimum.
• Maintain pricing integrity between shelf and computer. Keep Scan Rites to a minimum and maintain signage (and UPL’s where applicable).
• Be fair and consistent in enforcing department procedures, company rules and policies and in disciplining.
• Ensure perishable department heads are performing all job functions as outlined in their respective job descriptions.
• Develop and maintain an ongoing shrink awareness program within the perishables departments with the assistance of the department heads.
• Control labor costs to ensure that they are within budget relative to projected sales and operating results.
• Ensure that accurate records are…