Assistant Center Store Manager - Food Maxx - 39441 Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538

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 closely 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; oversees 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, managing performance, and fostering a culture aligned with Food Maxx’s mission and winning behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Provide customers with a remarkable shopping experience by training and holding associates accountable for excellent customer service.
• Contribute to gross profit goals through effective management of price integrity, shrink control, ordering, and product management.
• Lead associates in assigned areas to achieve high business performance outcomes.
• Develop and train associates, complete supervision reports, and foster a collaborative environment.
• Improve productivity, labor efficiency, and shopping experience through effective resource utilization.
• Oversee cold chain, shrink management, and price integrity for assigned areas.
• Ensure store cleanliness and sanitation compliance.
• Depending on assigned function, maintain schematic integrity, shelf conditions, display maintenance, and code date rotation.
• Oversee building security, hazardous waste processing, and front-end operations when store management is absent.
• Manage night receiving, cashier balancing, ordering, and inventory processes.
• Occasionally oversee total store operations in the absence of store management.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Skills: Strong communication, interpersonal, supervision, training, organization, administration, and math skills; excellent customer service; knowledge of department operations, products, processes, visual merchandising, store hazardous materials, and food safety rules.
• Education: One year of college (or equivalent knowledge through formal education, specialized training, or job experience).
• Experience: Minimum six months as Key Carrier or nine months as Perimeter Department Manager (or equivalent).
• Availability: Must be available to work varied retail hours and rotate/train in 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 objects; requires lifting up to 40 lbs. without assistance.

Pay

$30.67 per hour.