Assistant Store Manager (60591)

Homeland Stores; Edmond (OK); On-site; USD 40,392 - 49,368; Full time

Job summary

Homeland Stores in Edmond, OK is seeking an Assistant Store Manager to oversee store operations, ensuring maximum sales and excellent customer service. Key responsibilities include managing budgets, supervising staff, and maintaining store conditions.

The ideal candidate will possess a high school diploma and relevant experience in grocery management. This full-time position offers competitive compensation, with a focus on achieving store performance goals.

Qualifications

• Ability to give and receive complex instructions verbally.
• Ability to read and write in English.
• Strong decision-making skills concerning merchandise and staffing.

Responsibilities

• Manage store operations for maximum sales and profit.
• Ensure customer service quality and promptness.
• Supervise employee training and scheduling.

Skills

Complex verbal instructions

English literacy

Decision making

Interpersonal communications

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Job Details

• Level: Experienced
• Location: Homeland Store 164 - Edmond, OK 73012
• Position Type: Full Time
• Education Level: High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Salary Range: $44,880.00
• Hourly
• Job Shift: Open
• Job Category: Store Leadership Positions

Assistant Store Manager

Purpose Statement: To manage store operations to achieve maximum sales and profit while maintaining optimum store conditions.

Significant Job Responsibilities

• Manage store so every customer receives prompt, courteous, and friendly service.
• Attain sales, profit, expense and labor budgets.
• Know the budgeted inventory level of each department and work with each Department Manager to achieve them.
• Know the standards of performance and productivity for each department in the store, and work with Department Managers to achieve them.
• Complete/review all reports (shrink, productivity, ad markdown, DSD price changes, display performance, out-of-stocks, safety store audit, transfers, credits, reclaim) as required.
• Perform/direct ordering of merchandise and supplies on schedule from the warehouse and authorized vendors and receiving and handling of merchandise and supplies.
• Perform/direct all store opening and store closing procedures.
• Maintain new items and discontinued items program on a weekly basis.
• Maintain an outstanding store condition program to include floors, windows, shelving, equipment maintenance; effective back door and front‑end security procedures; enforcement of store employee purchase policies; and effective store safety and fire prevention program.
• Direct that all DSD products are authorized, checked in properly, recorded in DSD System/Price Book, and SRP updated on the front‑end systems.
• Assure that all merchandise is checked out through the front end at the correct price and all price changes are properly completed on the front‑end system and shelf tags.
• Assure prompt and accurate service at the front end and service departments by properly supervising the training and scheduling of personnel and ensuring all customer requests and/or complaints are handled with courtesy.
• Conduct store meetings with the Store Manager to review merchandising, sales planning, operating problems and keep employees informed.
• Perform/supervise selection, hiring and training of store employees and make effective use of available training programs and materials.
• Determine store needs by performing a store walk at minimum daily, including the backroom, and communicate needs to Department Managers.
• Knowledge of regulations/laws that would apply to operation of the business: Wage & Hour, Family Medical Leave Act, OSHA, ADA, EEO, Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, Nutrition Labeling & Education Act, Weights and Measures.

Qualifications

Required

• Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/co‑workers/employees concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment.
• Ability to read and write English; read instructions, merchandise labels, warehouse order codes, numbers, reports printed paper and forms.
• Make decisions concerning placement of merchandise on the shelf/display, pricing, allocation of shelf space, employee scheduling, expense control, order of product/supplies, hiring/supervision of employees, merchandising plans, operational policies and procedures and sales/promotion of merchandise.
• Good interpersonal communications.

Preferred

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior grocery store experience.
• Prior experience as an Assistant Store Manager.

Tasks of the Job

Mobility

• Move while conducting training and orientation of personnel, approximately 100 yards.
• Move to supervise receiving of product, moving product to floor or storage area, opening/cutting of cases, inspecting product quality, sorting cases/merchandise, building displays on the shelf and at end aisles, allocation of space in grocery categories, ordering merchandise and supplies, cleaning and maintenance, removal of trash/debris from the department, price marking and signage throughout the store, approximately 100 yards.
• Work on tile or concrete for a maximum of 8 hours.

1. Assist in tasks of the job as a regular employee while substituting as part of the work crew or training program for new employees.
2. Recognize cases, case cutter edge, case strips, shelf location, product size/description/quality, customers, shelf tags, labels on products, stocking carts, knives, scale, wrapper, department production equipment, cooler layout, packaging materials, debris on floor, aisle markers, and signs.
3. Perceive color difference on product and product labels.
4. Recognize cleaning/maintenance equipment, pallet jacks, forklifts, ovens, mixers, slicers, meat grinder, baler controls, etc.
5. Respond to customer, co‑workers and vendor questions, comments and responses.
6. Respond to the sound of baler/pallet jack/forklift/cleaning equipment operation.
7. Use and respond to the intercom/phone system.
8. Read case labels/case strips, signs, tags, shelf signs, numbers and aisle markers, department forms, operational forms, reports and employment forms.
9. Read equipment and chemical warning labels.

Work Environment

Inside and outside work with extreme variations in temperature, dust and humidity.