Nightfill Manager

Drakes Supermarkets; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Drakes Supermarkets is offering an exciting career opportunity in Adelaide, Australia. You will manage the grocery department with the autonomy to tailor service and product offerings to local customers, while leading a team in a highly competitive supermarket environment.

Join a family-owned retailer with strong growth and a focus on customer service, staff development, and safety. This role requires hands-on leadership, clear communication, and a passion for the grocery industry.

Qualifications

• Significant grocery retail knowledge.
• Experience in leading and managing team members.
• Ordering and cost control expertise.
• Accurate staff rostering.
• Passion and enthusiasm with a hands-on approach.
• Unparalleled commitment to customer service.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to liaise with team members and management.
• A flair for merchandising.
• Strong leadership and delegation skills.
• Ability to coach, train and performance manage staff.
• Commitment to work health and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the grocery department and tailor service and product offerings to meet local customer needs.
• Directly manage and mentor store team members to achieve targets.
• Oversee stock ordering, cost control, and rostering to optimize store performance.
• Drive customer service excellence and merchandising standards across the department.

Skills

Retail knowledge

Team leadership

Cost control

Staff rostering

Customer service

Communication

Merchandising

Leadership

Coaching

Staff development

Health and safety

Job description

• Attractive salary package and incentives
• Dynamic growing company
• Potential for promotion
  

Exciting Career Opportunity

• Attractive salary package and incentives
• Dynamic growing company
• Potential for promotion
  

Drakes Supermarkets is a Retail industry success story. A family owned and operated private company, we are Australia's largest independently-owned supermarket chain. Due to our unprecedented growth, we provide excellent career opportunities within our company.

The successful applicant will be given the opportunity to treat the grocery department as if it were their own business. They will be given the flexibility to tailor the stores service and products offering to meet the specific needs of the customers within the local area.

Working as a part of an enthusiastic team, in a highly competitive supermarket environment, applicants will be expected to demonstrate:

• Significant grocery retail knowledge
• Experience in leading and managing team members
• Ordering and cost control expertise
• Accurate staff rostering
• Passion and enthusiasm, with a very "hands on" approach
• Unparalleled commitment to customer service
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to liaise with both team members and management
• A flair for merchandising
• Strong leadership and delegation skills
• Ability to coach, train and performance manage staff
• Commitment to work health and safety standards
  

To succeed within our organisation, applicants must be able to:

• Display a passion for the grocery retail industry
• Express a positive "can do" attitude
• Problem solve
• Lead by example
• Motivate a team
• Communicate effectively with management, team members, customers and external stakeholders