Assistant Team Leader | Full Time

Hill Street; Sorell; On-site; AUD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Hill Street Grocer – Dodges Ferry is seeking a dedicated full-time Assistant Team Leader to help keep our coastal store well-presented, stocked, and customer-focused. You will lead a small team, assist customers, and ensure smooth daily operations with a friendly, proactive approach.

You will gain leadership experience, exposure to ordering, merchandising, and food-safety practices, and opportunities for progression within a supportive Tasmanian business that values pride, passion and community.

Qualifications

• Experience in retail, supermarkets, or stock organisation.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Comfort with fast-paced customer service and team coordination.
• Knowledge of food safety and workplace health and safety procedures.

Responsibilities

• Maintain well-presented, fully stocked store displays.
• Provide warm, welcoming and helpful customer service.
• Receive, unpack and organise deliveries.
• Lead and support the team to uphold daily store operations and standards.
• Learn and excel in leadership, ordering, wastage, gaps, and merchandising.

Skills

People management

Stock management

Customer service

Leadership

Merchandising

Cash handling

Food safety

WHS

Job description

Assistant Team Leader - Full Time

Hill Street Grocer | Dodges Ferry

Join our coastal Dodges Ferry store as a full-time Assistant Team Leader and be part of a supportive, community-focused team.

If you have previous experience in retail, supermarkets, or stock organisation, or simply enjoy working in a fast-paced, leadership based, customer-focused environment, we’d love to hear from you!

As an Assistant Team Leader, you’ll play an important role in ensuring our store looks its best at all times. You’ll help keep our aisles well-stocked, neat, tidy, and organised, assist customers with friendly and attentive service, and work closely with your team to drive the excellent standards our customers expect.

What you'll do:

• Maintain well-presented, fully stocked store displays

• Provide warm, welcoming and helpful customer service

• Receive, unpack and organise deliveries

• Work collaboratively with, and lead your team to support daily store operations and present an exceptional store to our customers

• Learn and eventually excel in all aspects including leadership, ordering, wastage, gaps, merchandising and more

• Following food safety, workplace health and safety, and company procedures

What you'll bring:

• Excellent communication and people management skills that nurture and drive team performance and engagement

• Stock management experience, with skills in planning, merchandising and strong attention to detail

• Energy and a positive mind-set, as well as a love of working with food and people (both team members and customers)

• Availability to work full-time (76 hours per fortnight), on an agreed roster across our span of trading hours, including some early and late shifts, and alternate weekends

• Knowledge of daily retail operations, including opening / closing procedures, cash handling and following WH&S and Food Safety regulations

• Physical fitness for lifting and standing

This role would suit an ambitious up and coming retail professional who aspires to become a Team Leader in the near future! You will have the opportunity to develop and enhance your career through on the job training, coaching, and mentoring, and continuously expand your operational and industry knowledge day-to-day.

At Hill Street, we bring happiness through great food and are passionate about giving exceptional customer service. We are an independently owned and run Tasmanian business whose central values of pride, passion, growth, value and family inform everything we do. We aim to go above and beyond for each and every customer and provide an enjoyable shopping experience in a beautiful environment. We embrace excellence and encourage our team members to grow and succeed in a business they are proud to be a part of.

Pay rates are set by the General Retail Industry Award. The 2026 - 2027base hourly pay rates for level 3 adults are:

Full time

• Weekdays $28.89

• Saturday $36.11

• Sunday $43.34

Additional penalty rates apply to public holidays and some overtime and early morning shifts. Please view the full Award for all applicable rates and allowances.

Awarded Tasmanian Employer of Choice 2023