Assistant Front Store Manager

Shoppers Drug Mart Inc.; Victoria; On-site; CAD 28,929 - 33,062; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Purchase discount program

Flexible schedules

Competitive pay

Online learning through Academy

Job summary

Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. in Victoria is seeking an experienced retail leader to assist the Front Store Manager in guiding health, beauty and convenience services in the community.

You will help optimize product flow from the backroom to the sales floor and support store objectives. This role emphasizes people leadership, scheduling and wage administration, driving customer experience, and upholding our Core Values.

Qualifications

• Must have planning and inventory management/experience.
• Ability to manage labour scheduling and use Workforce Management (WFM).
• Strong leadership, mentorship and staff development abilities.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintains store standards to optimize customer experience and profitability.
• Works with the management team to ensure store standards including backroom are in effect 100% of the time.
• Assist in labour scheduling and maximize labour productivity with FSM.
• Ensure staffing levels are adequate to operate the business.
• Supports hiring for all departments (excl. Pharmacy) and wage administration within guidelines.
• Drives Blue Culture, engagement, and leads staff through core values.

Skills

Retail management

Interpersonal skills

Coaching

Leadership

Job description

• Previous retail management experience

Join a locally owned and operated store to help deliver health, beauty and convenience services in your community, and keep the customer at the centre of everything you do.

Why this role is important?

Summary

To assist the Front Store Manager (FSM) in managing the human, physical and financial resources of the store and in ensuring that store objectives are achieved by focusing on improving product flow from the backroom to the sales floor.

Operations

Duties & Responsibilities

• Maintains Store Standards to optimize customer experience, drive customer traffic, and positively impact store profitability


• Works with Management Team to ensure Store Standards are in effect 100% of the time, including the backroom


• To help manage in conjunction with the FSM, labour scheduling and leverages Work Force Management (WFM) to maximize labour productivity


• Ensures staffing levels are adequate to effectively operate the business

Human Resources

• Complies with Human Resources Standards


• To help with hiring in conjunction with the FSM, hires and/or supports hiring for all departments, excluding Pharmacy


• Maintains wage administration within SLPH guidelines


• Drives Blue Culture, engagement, and leads and motivates staff through leading by our Core Values

Qualifications

• Planning, Judgement and Decision Making


• Planning and preparation for Inventory Management


• Use judgment and decision‑making skills to control expenses


• Provides effective leadership and ongoing mentorship and ensures development of all staff


• Efficient time management skills


• Able to prioritize activities quickly in response to changing initiatives


• Effective organization and planning skills

Experience

• Previous retail management experience


• Demonstrated ability to drive the business, led by example and support corporate programs


• Works effectively with management team


• Superior interpersonal, coaching and communication skills


• Business and financial acumen


• Relationship builder with key internal and external agencies

Why work in a Shoppers Drug Mart store?

Each store has an Associate-Owner, so you will work for a local business owner while having the support of a national brand. Benefit from a purchase discount program, flexible and varied schedules, competitive pay and online learning through Academy.

Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your patients, co‑workers, customers and community.

Associate Owners in the Shoppers Drug Mart network recognize Canada's diversity as an opportunity to better serve their communities, and strive to reflect the nation’s evolving diversity in the products they sell, the people they hire, and the culture they create in their stores. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants and colleagues with disabilities.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Hiring Range / Échelle Salariale à L’embauche
$21.00 - $24.00 / 21,00$ - 24,00$ (per hour / de l’heure)
A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste vacant existant. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.