Assistant Center Store Manager

Responsibilities

• Help manage all center store departments including grocery, frozen, liquor, GM, HBC, and dairy.
• Involved in training of center store teammates.
• Greet guests, respond to guest questions/requests/complaints, and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
• Be observant of security problems and develop methods of prevention (vendor receiving, teammate theft, shoplifting).
• Supervise and assist with:
• Preparation of the back room for receipt of merchandise.
• Unloading of trucks.
• Checking of the load for shortage/overage.
• Sorting of cases according to aisle or pallet for stocking.
• Stocking of merchandise on shelf.
• Building of displays.
• Storage of back stock.
• Supervise and assist with:
• Cleaning of store floors, check lanes, carts, restrooms, parking lot and shelves.
• Safe use of cleaning equipment and chemicals.
• Loading of stocking carts/pallets.
• Transportation of cases to the sales floor either on stocking carts or pallets.
• Matching of the case strip to the shelf tag/stock.
• Placement of merchandise in the designated shelf/display position/area.
• The "face/front" program for the front row of each display.
• The immediate pick up/removal of all broken containers, packing materials/boxes from the sales floor or guests pathway.
• Affirm the safety of self, guests, and co-workers by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying a store manager of any potential hazard immediately.
• Perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the store manager, substituting for absent workers, and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and services to guests during peak periods of business.
• Supervise and assist the safety procedures used in the operation of the baler, case cutter, pallet jack and fork-lift and floor cleaning equipment.
• Supervise and assist with the manual price marking/labeling of merchandise without a UPC code.
• Supervise and assist with the movement of damaged/unsalable and "returnable" products from shelves to the backroom, sorting of the materials into bins and the return of damage to the reclaim center.
• Supervise and assist with the use of proper case opening and product stacking techniques to prevent damage to product.
• Supervise and assist with the removal of trash from the aisle, operating the baler, putting the compacted bale on a pallet, and loading salvage on to trucks.
• Supervise and assist with the changing of signs, light bulbs, tags and price markers.
• Communicate with the store manager on problems, recommendations for change, effectiveness of plans and merchandising decisions.

Qualifications

• Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/co-workers/teammates concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment.
• Work and educational history demonstrating stability.
• Basic reading and writing ability; able to read instructions, merchandise labels, warehouse order codes, numbers, reports, printed paper and forms.
• Make judgments concerning: the placement of merchandise on the shelf/display, pricing, teammate scheduling, order of product/supplies, department conditions, hiring/supervision of teammates, merchandising plans, departments operational policies and procedures and the sales/promotion of merchandise.
• Good interpersonal communications.

Physical Demands

• Sit
• Stand
• Sotto
• Squat
• Bend
• Reach
• Push
• Pull
• Grip
• Twist
• Lift
• Climb
• Carry
• Walk
• Kneel

Safety

• Not use drugs or alcohol on the job.
• Not create a direct threat to the health and safety of others on the job.

Woods Supermarket Commitment

• Committed to equal opportunity for all teammates and applicants.
• Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
• Do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual stereotyping, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other protected characteristic.