Trainee Store Manager - Multiple Sydney Locations

Harris Farm; Sydney, Albury City; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25% employee discount

Structured on-the-job training

Values-led culture

Career progression in a family-owned.

Industry-standard pay alignment (MA000

Job summary

Harris Farm in Sydney is recruiting a Trainee Store Manager to work with the Store Manager, lead the team, delight customers and keep our Albury store running smoothly. You’ll gain hands-on training in people leadership, rostering, merchandising and compliance as you work toward your own store leadership role.

This on-the-floor role focuses on real milestones and mentorship from senior retail leaders, rather than a desk job, helping you grow into a store manager who drives success.

Qualifications

• Retail or hospitality leadership experience
• Love of fresh food and customer service
• Ability to juggle people, product and priorities in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Support the Store Manager in coaching the team to hit customer satisfaction, engagement, sales, wage and margin targets
• Help build rosters that are on-budget and keep the store running smoothly
• Keep the store looking fresh, abundant and beautifully merchandised — specials pushed every week
• Champion food safety, workplace safety and compliance, and support injured workers back to work
• Get involved in recruitment, onboarding and developing the next generation of Harris Farmers

Job description

Come and grow with us within our Sydney store network !

We'll teach you everything about running a Harris Farm store, from the floor to the numbers.

As a Trainee Store Manager, you'll work alongside our Store Manager to lead the team, delight customers, and keep our Albury store running like a well-oiled (and beautifully stocked) machine. You'll get hands‑on training in people leadership, rostering, merchandising and compliance, all building towards your own store one day. You'll be backed by a genuinely structured training programme, not just thrown in the deep end, real milestones, real mentoring, and regular check-ins with senior retail leaders to make sure you're developing into a store manager who's up there with the best. This isn't a desk job. It's on the floor, in the thick of it, learning the Harris Farm way.

What You'll Do

• Support the Store Manager in coaching the team to hit customer (NPS), engagement (eNPS), sales, wage and margin targets
• Help build rosters that are on‑budget and keep the store running smoothly
• Keep the store looking fresh, abundant and beautifully merchandised — specials pushed every week
• Champion food safety, workplace safety and compliance, and support injured workers back to work
• Get stuck into recruitment, onboarding and developing the next generation of Harris Farmers

What You Bring

Experience

• Retail or hospitality leadership experience , supervising a small team is a plus
• A genuine love of fresh food, especially fruit and veg
• Comfortable juggling people, product and priorities in a fast‑paced environment

You, in a Nutshell

• Hungry to grow into a bigger leadership role
• Humble, you back your team and share the win
• Smart, you read the room and know how your words land

The Harris Farm Way

Hungry

Always looking for the next improvement for yourself and the team.

Humble

Share the credit. Put the team first. No egos on the floor.

Smart

Read the room. Communicate with care. Know your impact.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary package benchmarked to market
• 25% employee discount - for you and a family member
• A structured training programme - on-the-job training, with your progress reviewed every 6 months by senior retail leaders, so you're set up to lead at the highest standard
• A genuinely values-led culture where your contribution is seen and celebrated
• The chance to build a career in a family business doing it right since 1971
• This is a salaried role, benchmarked against the General Retail Industry Award 2020 (MA000004) Level 6 for comparison purposes. Harris Farm Markets complies with all obligations under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and the National Employment Standards (NES). Always confirm current rates at fairwork.gov.au.

At Harris Farm, we welcome everyone, from all walks of life and all abilities.