Assistant Center Store Manager - Food Maxx - 13220 San Pablo Avenue, San Pablo, CA 94806

About Us

The Save Mart Companies is California’s largest regional, full-service grocery chain, founded over 70 years ago in Modesto, California. With 194 stores across Central and Northern California and Western Nevada under the banners Save Mart, Lucky, and FoodMaxx, we serve the unique needs of our communities. Our 12,000 associates prioritize investing in people, stores, and neighborhoods, working with local suppliers to provide fresh, quality products at affordable prices. Shoppers can access our offerings in-store, online, or through home delivery and curbside pick-up. We are part of The Jim Pattison Group, a family-owned, diversified holding company with a long-term strategic focus on growth and success.

About the Role

The Assistant Center Store Manager ensures our customers’ needs are met and exceeded through effective management of assigned areas. This position oversees front-end operations and staff in the absence of the Store Manager and Assistant Store Manager, rotating responsibility across the following areas:

• Front-End: Oversees cashiers, clerks, and helpers; manages scheduling for productivity and customer service; handles parking lot operations and store balancing.
• Night Crew: Oversees Center Store operations, productivity standards, night receiving, facility security, shrink management, and store readiness for opening.
• Frozen/Dairy/Deli: Ensures productivity, freshness, schematic and stocking standards, planner execution, and shrink control.
• Evening: Oversees Center Store merchandising, product conditions, back room, steel, and shelving.

The role involves supervising and training associates to align with Food Maxx’s mission and winning behaviors, managing performance, and driving high business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a remarkable shopping experience by training and holding associates accountable for excellent customer service.
• Support gross profit goals through effective price integrity, shrink control, ordering, and product management.
• Lead associates in assigned areas with a focus on accountability and business performance.
• Develop and train associates, complete supervision reports, and foster a collaborative environment.
• Improve productivity, labor efficiency, and shopping experience through resource optimization.
• Oversee cold chain, shrink, and price integrity for assigned areas.
• Maintain store cleanliness and sanitation compliance.
• Depending on assignment, ensure schematic integrity, stock conditions, display maintenance, and code date rotation.
• Manage building security, hazardous waste processing, front-end operations, and night receiving.
• Oversee cashier balancing, ordering, and inventory processes.
• Occasionally manage total store operations in the absence of store management.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Skills: Strong communication, interpersonal, supervision, training, organization, administration, math, and customer service skills. Knowledge of department operations, products, visual merchandising, hazardous materials, and food safety rules.
• Education: One year of college (or equivalent knowledge through formal education, training, or job experience).
• Experience: Minimum six months as a Key Carrier or nine months as a Perimeter Department Manager (or equivalent).
• Availability: Must be available to work varied retail hours and rotate/train across all Assistant Center Store Manager areas (Front-End, Night Crew, Frozen/Dairy/Deli, Evening).
• Physical: Ability to sit, stand, walk, kneel, stoop, use stairs, reach, pull, and lift up to 40 lbs. without assistance.

Pay

$28.67 per hour.