Grocery Manager

About the role

The Grocery Manager oversees multiple departments including Grocery, Dairy, Frozen Food, and Beer/Wine. Responsibilities include ensuring proper handling of products, controlling costs, managing labor, preparing for inventory counts, and engaging with 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 loss due to shrink, damage, and pilferage
• Absist in the preparation of store for physical inventory counts
• Assist or oversee the unloading of trucks from distribution centers, verify deliveries, and report shortages and overages
• Manage ordering, compliance, sanitation, back-room inventory, and department safety
• Engage and evaluate team members through coaching, feedback, and development discussions, and make recommendations for merit increases
• Regularly 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, take and document corrective actions, and manage performance
• Create and adjust schedules and staffing levels to ensure maximum 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, and the ability to take and give direction in a team environment
• Outgoing and friendly behavior, positive attitude, and ability to interact with customers
• Proven leadership ability to build, motivate, and maintain 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
• Possess a working knowledge of personnel reports, margin reports, weekly sales numbers, and financial goals
• Show outgoing and friendly behavior, and a positive attitude towards Team Members and customers

Pay

The pay range for this position is $20.50 - $32.80 / 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 of prizes, food and fun!
• Get Paid Every Day! Sprouts offers DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’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