Assistant Store Manager

Assistant Store Manager

Location:

Homeland Store 851 – Perry, OK 73077

To manage store operations to achieve maximum sales and profit while maintaining optimum store conditions.

• Deliver prompt, courteous, and friendly service to every customer.
• Attain sales, profit, expense, and labor budgets.
• Know the budgeted inventory level of each department and work with Department Managers to achieve it.
• Know the standards of performance and productivity for each department and work with Department Managers to achieve them.
• Complete and review reports such as shrink, productivity, markdown, DSD price changes, display performance, out‑of‑stocks, safety store audit, transfers, credits, and reclaim as required.
• Perform and direct:
  1) ordering of merchandise and supplies from the warehouse and authorized vendors;
  2) receiving and handling of merchandise and supplies.
• Perform and direct all store opening and closing procedures.
• Maintain new items and discontinued items program on a weekly basis.
• Maintain store condition program, including floors, windows, shelving, equipment maintenance; back‑door and front‑end security procedures; and store safety and fire prevention program.
• Ensure all DSD products are authorized, checked in properly, recorded in the DSD System/Price Book, and SRP updated on the front‑end systems.
• Ensure all merchandise is checked out at the correct price and all price changes are completed on the front‑end system and shelf tags.
• Ensure prompt and accurate service at the front end and service departments by supervising training and scheduling of personnel and handling customer requests and complaints with courtesy.
• Conduct store meetings with the Store Manager to review merchandising, sales planning, and operating problems, and keep employees informed of matters concerning them.
• Perform or supervise selection, hiring, and training of store employees; use available training programs and materials.
• Determine the needs in the store by performing a store walk at least daily, including the backroom, and communicate those needs to Department Managers.
• Communicate the needs of each area (department) to Department Managers.

• Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions concerning store/department policy, procedures, and use of equipment.
• Ability to read and write English; read instructions, merchandise labels, warehouse order codes, numbers, reports, printed paper, and forms.
• Make decisions concerning merchandise placement, pricing, shelf space allocation, employee scheduling, expense control, order placement, hiring/supervision, merchandising plans, departmental policies, and sales promotion.
• Good interpersonal communication skills.
• Knowledge of regulations/laws relevant to the business operation (Wage & Hour, Family Medical Leave Act, OSHA, ADA, EEO, Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, Nutrition Labeling & Education Act, Weights and Measures, etc.).

Inside and outside work with extreme variations in temperature, dust, and humidity.