District Manager Intern - Northern / Eastern Indiana & Chicagoland

ALDI is seeking motivated and ambitious individuals to join our District Manager Trainee (DMT) program. Over an intensive 44-week training period, you will gain comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience preparing you to take on responsibility for overseeing multiple ALDI stores. As a district manager, you will work closely with store managers to ensure exceptional customer service, foster a positive employee working environment, drive operational excellence, and accelerate sales growth. With ALDI's rapid expansion across the United States, this is a unique opportunity to grow professionally with a market leader that values simplicity, consistency, and responsibility.

About the role

Position Type: Full-Time

VAL: Northern & Eastern Indiana and Chicago

Responsibilities

• Communicates job responsibilities and performance expectations to store management to ensure desired results; leads and develops store management personnel.
• Leads, develops, and supervises the assigned store manager team to develop sales, engage teams, satisfy customers, and achieve consistent high performance.
• Supports store management in fostering a positive working environment and sense of teamwork among direct and indirect personnel reports.
• Develops and implements action plans using company-provided resources to improve operating results.
• Works with the store manager to recruit, select, promote, and determine store assignments for personnel reports to ensure proper and adequate staffing of each location within the district.
• Confers with direct reports regarding advancement, discipline, or termination of personnel.
• Trains and develops direct reports to ensure personnel reports achieve their maximum professional potential, using company-provided training materials.
• Observes and evaluates store employees’ work performance and collaborates with the store manager to provide feedback and coaching as appropriate.
• Collaborates with store manager to oversee the appropriate resolution of escalated employee and customer concerns.
• Understands and oversees execution of the overarching company strategy while communicating and modeling the core values of the organization.
• Communicates, cooperates, and interacts effectively with all levels of ALDI employees, customers, third-party vendors, and business partners.
• Reviews, investigates, and resolves issues that arise within the district to minimize potential liability for the division and the company.
• Oversees and ensures store managements’ compliance with established policies and procedures within the district, as well as applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
• Ensures store managers are appropriately coaching store personnel to comply with company customer service guidelines and demonstrates appropriate interactions with customers and co-workers.
• Resolves concerns from store personnel and customers, and/or refers such concerns to the director of store operations as necessary.
• Models, communicates, and supervises compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Ensures a safe working environment by supporting the store manager in identifying and supervising the resolution of hazards and equipment and ergonomic issues.
• Supervises adherence to company expense guidelines, inventory procedures, product handling, and cash handling policies and standard operating procedures to minimize losses and achieve financial targets.
• Ensures store managers effectively oversee personnel to maintain store zone standards and merchandising standards at all times.
• Supervises the achievement of store KPI results and takes action to develop and implement personnel and operational plans to achieve district goals and budgets.
• Plans and conducts meetings such as district weekly operations calls, monthly one-to-ones, training sessions, and other company-related events as communicated using company-provided materials at the prescribed frequency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field.
• Ability to develop rapport, trust, and open communication that enhances the performance of direct reports.
• Ability to facilitate group involvement when conducting meetings.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with internal and external parties.
• Ability to interpret and apply ALDI operating policies and procedures.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Conflict management skills.
• Skill of negotiation to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion using compromise, persuasion, rationale, and diplomacy.
• Knowledge of the organizational authority, interdependence of job duties, products, systems, and services of the company.
• Ability to evaluate financial performance and apply such data to decision-making.
• Skill of verbal and written communication including the ability to prepare written materials to meet purpose and audience.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and complete activities consistent with one’s personal and organizational needs to maximize the total time available.
• Ability to pay attention to detail.
• Ability to establish and execute plans and goals.
• Knowledge of human resource management and the ability to manage store personnel relating to recruitment, selection, training, development, motivation, retention, and separation.
• Domestic travel is required daily. District managers are provided with a company car. All travel expenses related to company car use will be covered by the company.

Pay

$28.00 per hour + eligibility for overtime

Schedule

40 hours per week / 10-week summer internship program

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan
• Company 401(k) Matching Contributions
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• PerkSpot National Discount Program
• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Insurance (Full-time employees)
• Generous Vacation Time & 7 Paid Holidays (Full-time employees)
• Up to 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave at 100% of pay (Full-time employees)
• Up to 2 Weeks Paid Caregiver Leave at 100% of pay (Full-time employees)
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance (Full-time employees)
• Life, Dependent Life, and AD&D Insurance (Full-time employees)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance (Full-time employees)