Labor Scheduling Manager

Why choose us?

Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand. At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

About the role

Build, review, analyze, develop, and deliver common ABS labor management tools and practices across all divisional retail stores for labor budgeting, scheduling, and results reporting. These tools will assist in meeting the company’s labor management goals and business initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Using newly developed corporate systems, provide weekly, store-by-store, and department-by-department labor cost budgets, either by Period and/or Quarter for all stores in the respective division on a regular basis.
• Working with the SVP of Operations, establish labor cost objectives for all AVP’s and DM’s to achieve while maintaining or improving customer service and store conditions.
• Recommend new equipment, methods, and procedures at the store level that could considerably reduce labor expenses.
• Establish business requirements that create simple in-store user functionality of the company’s selected labor management tool, Visual Labor Management (VLM).
• Build, specify, and configure the application setup to parallel the overall labor management business strategies.
• Review and analyze new system software releases of the VLM labor management applications for labor forecasting, department schedule writing, and labor management. Provide feedback to corporate Retail Engineering for future development requirements needed from the outside software vendor.
• Utilize engineered labor standards within an electronic work measurement software database called MOST to determine labor requirements for tasks and activities by job and department to populate the VLM databases.
• Use the TTM (Time Task Manager) tables from VLM to determine the “Fixed & Variable” labor factors used for reporting productivity performance and future labor cost budgets by week, store, and department.
• Assist in organizing and maintaining a central data repository for all divisional stores, including equipment quantities, equipment types, physical characteristics (store sizes & fixture lengths), policies & methods, etc., that affect labor hours at each individual location.
• Manage the data distribution and refresh processes for new and existing locations, including interfaces for ongoing daily and weekly data feeds from POS, distribution centers, DSD, and Rx systems.
• Assist in the development, testing, and maintenance of a weekly/periodic Sales and Labor Tracking Tool for managing productivity and labor expenses at store, district, and division levels to total company results.
• Partner with the corporate training department in providing training content and material guidelines to create effective user documentation and training strategies.
• Perform other productivity and cost control assignments as requested by senior management.
• Consult with DM’s, Field Specialists, and Store Directors regarding unique facility circumstances, discrepancies in actual labor hours versus standard, potential costs of changes due to competition, remodels, combo or dual-branded conversions, customer service levels, etc., while maintaining consistency among all stores, districts, areas, and divisions.
• Assist Real Estate in projecting payroll expenses and sales mix in their ROI calculations on new store sites, major remodels, and combo conversions.
• Serve as a liaison between internal departmental requirements and external support personnel in merchandising, accounting, payroll, and construction.
• Conduct training for management trainees yearly in conjunction with the Training department on the VLM Labor Management tool.
• Assist District Managers in coordinating the store closing process, including billing follow-up, transfer of product, price zone adjustments on product transferred, equipment consolidation and shipment, payroll, accruals, scanning retail reduction batch authorizations, and final ad programs.
• Consult with AVP’s on special shrink problems.
• Summarize results of store visits and make suggestions to correct identified problems with AVP’s and DM’s.

Requirements

• Industrial Engineering Degree / Bachelor’s Degree or significant equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a store director or similar position.
• Possess excellent PC skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access.
• Multi-store divisional operations experience desirable.
• Above-average analytical, organizational, and technical skills.
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills to interface effectively with personnel at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously focus on a multitude of tasks and prioritize accordingly.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interface with Division and Store Management teams.
• 30% travel required.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly.
• Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday via our partnership with Stream.
• Associate discounts.
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k, and more).
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements, visit myACI Benefits.
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth, and development.
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve.