Grocery Manager

About the role

The Grocery Manager oversees multiple departments including Grocery, Dairy, Frozen Food, and Beer/Wine. Key responsibilities include ensuring proper handling and rotation of products, controlling costs, managing labor, preparing for inventory counts, and engaging with and evaluating team members.

Responsibilities

• Ensure products are handled properly, rotated for freshness, and date controls are performed
• Control costs by monitoring and improving operations to increase profitability
• Manage labor costs and reduce losses due to shrink, damage, and pilferage
• Absorb or oversee the unloading of trucks from distribution centers, verifying deliveries against invoices and reporting shortages and overages
• Manage ordering, compliance, sanitation, back-room inventory, and department safety
• Engage and evaluate team members through coaching, feedback, and one-on-one development discussions, making recommendations for merit increases
• Attend and participate in in-store meetings, recruit, hire, and make promotion/transfer decisions in collaboration with the Store Manager
• Exercise independent judgment to address team member concerns, taking and documenting corrective actions as needed
• Create and adjust schedules and staffing levels to maximize productivity and efficiency
• Communicate standards, expectations, policy changes, and product knowledge to team members
• Lead a team that collaborates to deliver the finest quality of product, highest level of service, and the greatest experience for customers
• Serve as a Key Carrier for the store or act as a Manager on Duty (MOD) as needed

Qualifications

• At least 18 years of age with 1 year of managerial or supervisory experience in a multi-department operation within the retail, hospitality, or service industry
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to take and give direction in a team environment
• Outgoing and friendly behavior, with a positive attitude and ability to interact with customers
• Past leadership experience building, motivating, and maintaining staff, with a working knowledge of personnel reports, margin reports, weekly sales numbers, and financial goals
• Strong focus on detail, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Food Safety certification
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that changes as the business changes, including nights, weekends, and holidays
• Ability to vertically transfer milk trays weighing up to 60 lbs., boxes weighing up to 50 lbs., and perform repetitive squatting/kneeling/bending for up to 30 hours
• Knowledge of personnel reports, margin reports, weekly sales numbers, and financial goals
• Outgoing and friendly behavior towards Team Members and customers

Pay

The pay range for this position is $19.15 - $30.50 per hour. Sprouts Farmers Market determines pay based on applicable experience and qualifications of the applicant.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan
• Vacation accrual plan
• Career growth opportunities
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year
• Full-time employees may be eligible for additional benefits such as health savings accounts with company match, pre-tax flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care, and company-paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays
• Get Paid Every Day! Sprouts offers DailyPay - eligible employees can transfer the money they've already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free

Eligibility Requirements

May apply for the following benefits: bonus based on company and/or individual performance, affordable benefit coverage including medical, dental, and vision, health savings account with company match, pre-tax flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care, company paid short-term disability coverage, paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers, paid holidays, and Get Paid Every Day! Sprouts offers DailyPay - eligible employees can transfer the money they've already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free.