Retail Store Shift Supervisor

Lindt & Sprüngli (USA) Inc.; Gretna (NE); On-site; USD 21,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Lindt & Sprüngli (USA) Inc. is seeking a Shift Supervisor to lead in-store customer experiences across Lindt Chocolate Shops in the United States.

You will drive sales, model Lindt standards, and train staff to deliver premium service while maintaining stock levels and operational controls. The role requires a proven sales background and the ability to lead a team, with availability for nights, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

• Proven sales background.
• Basic math and/or accounting skills.

Responsibilities

• Sales: Ensure store meets or exceeds weekly, monthly, annual sales plan and contributes to district sales goals.
• Model understanding and communicate the sales mission to staff.
• Assist with developing team members' commitment to sales results.
• Supervise staff to achieve sales goals and KPIs.
• Uphold Lindt standards in daily operations and customer interactions.
• Monitor stock levels and coordinate with store management to avoid stockouts.

Skills

Sales experience

Leadership

Math skills

Education

High School graduate

Job description

Who We Are At Lindt, we are a global fast-growing consumer goods company, enchanting the world with premium chocolate. We are driven by our passion for excellence and go the extra mile ensuring that every Lindt experience is nothing short of exceptional. Our collective efforts are geared towards making a positive impact, not only in the world of premium chocolate but also in the lives of our employees, customers, and communities. Our company embraces a culture defined by the core values of Excellence, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Responsibility, and Collaboration, fostering a dynamic and collaborative environment where these principles drive our success.

Position Purpose

Do you consider yourself a chocolate enthusiast? As a Shift Supervisor at Lindt USA, you will be joining a team that truly believes in you and your abilities to create a positive and engaging in-store experience for our customers. With Lindt Chocolate Shops across the U.S., our retail teams play an integral part in delivering a premium experience to our customers. It takes a positive, highly engaged, self-starter to satisfy our customers with every interaction. It is this passion for Lindt, knowledge of our product and commitment to our brand that keeps customers coming back time and again.

Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities

• Sales: Ensure store meets or exceeds weekly, monthly, annual sales plan and consistently contributes to the district's achievement of the sale's plan.
• Model understanding and commitment to the store's sales mission and effectively communicate the mission to staff in actionable terms.
• Assist with development of each team member's individual commitment to the achievement of store's sales results.
• Model and effectively supervise staff to insure sales goals (including key performance indicators, ADS, UPT, conversion and other company sales standards) and external sales opportunities are achieved.
• Model Lindt standards through everyday activities (4 Moments of Influence, dress code, up-selling, commitment, passion, sales focus, drive).
• Monitors and escalates stock levels to Store Management in a timely manner to avoid out of stocks/overstocks/dated product.
• Staff Development: Support Store Manager with training sales staff in accordance with Lindt & Sprüngli guidelines and standards in order to insure a knowledgeable, friendly, well-trained staff.
• Help to train sales staff in accordance with company standards, insuring daily, weekly and monthly sales and operations are consistently achieved.
• Assist with training and developing staff sales techniques, ensuring solid product knowledge is consistently demonstrated and the brand is accurately represented to the customer.
• Escalate issues to Store Management in a professional and timely manner.
• Operational Controls: Ensure store meets or exceeds company standards for operational controls and compliance.
• Inventory Control/Shrink Cash Management (POS, Paperwork, logs, policies & procedures).
• Comply with all Quality Assurance policies & procedures.
• Maintain store cleanliness.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Skills & Knowledge:
• Proven sales background
• Ability to take direction and effectively delegate and execute through others
• Basic math and/or accounting skills
• Experience:
• Prior retail experience, preferably in a specialty retail environment
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 35 pounds
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Ability to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach with arms
• Education:
• High School Graduate or equivalent
• Other Requirements:
• Must be available to work nights, weekends (Saturday and Sundays) and Holidays

Total Rewards

Compensation: $15.50 - 16.50

Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The company will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas. Lindt USA’s salary range reflects market rates based on our size, revenue, and location. Starting pay is determined using a wide range of factors including, but not limited to, job‑related skills, knowledge, and experience as well as market conditions. A bonus and/or long-term incentive may be included as part of this compensation package.

Applicants for this position must successfully pass a background screening and may be required to pass drug screenings as well.

Lindt and Sprüngli is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, veteran status, or any other classification protected by state, local or federal law.

Lindt & Sprüngli has been enchanting the world with chocolate for over 180 years. The long‑established Swiss company with its roots in Zurich is a global leader in the premium chocolate category. Lindt & Sprüngli produces quality chocolates today at its 12 factories in Europe and the USA. Its products are sold by 41 subsidiaries and branch offices in around 620 of its own stores as well as via a network of around 100 distributors around the globe. With around 15,500 employees, the Lindt & Sprüngli Group reported sales of CHF 5.92 billion in 2025. Our commitment to contributing to a sustainable tomorrow is a key element driving the company’s actions and ambitions. Since 2008, the Lindt & Sprüngli Farming Program has been our Responsible Sourcing Standard for cocoa.