Shift Leader: Store Operations & Customer Experience

Walgreens; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens Co. in Peoria, IL seeks a customer-focused associate to support opening/closing, checkout, and stockroom operations. You will engage customers, handle daily cash processes, and help maintain displays and pricing while ensuring compliance with local laws.

The role emphasizes delivering a delightful customer experience, coaching teammates, and upholding store standards, with a salary range stated later in the posting. This is a fast-paced, team-driven environment.

Qualifications

• One year of leadership, supervisory, or retail key holder experience.
• Must be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English.
• Pharmacy license or PTCB certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Opens and closes the store in the absence of store management, including systems start-ups, required cash handling, and ensuring the floor and stock room are ready for the business day.
• Completes product returns, order voids, customer refunds, cash drops to the safe, and provides change as requested to cash registers.
• Models and delivers a distinctive and delightful customer experience.
• Responsible for holding store keys to open and close without management as necessary.
• Assists with and coaches other team members to work with warehouse and vendor ordering process as the orders are created, reviewed, and received, including opening the backdoor for vendor deliveries.
• Responsible and accountable for registering all related sales on assigned cash register, including records of scanning errors, price verifications, items not on file, price modifications, and voids.
• Assists manager or assistant store manager in reviewing order exceptions on order release day and assists in reverse logistics (e.g., 1506, returns, empty package).
• Assists manager or assistant store manager in evaluating and developing displays, including promotional, seasonal, super structures, and sale merchandise. Completes resets and revisions.
• Maintains accurate inventory counts; maintains the accuracy of on-hand quantities including, but not limited to, basic departments, stockroom, and overstock locations.
• Assist with ensuring the Outdate program is followed with team members.
• Responsible for basic department pricing and making daily price changes; ensures proper signage is displayed at the store to support accurate pricing of products. Ensures any additional pricing tasks related to local regulations and/or regulatory compliance programs are completed accurately and within the required time frame.
• Assist with bookkeeping activities, including cash report, cash counts, ledgers, and bill payment as necessary or as requested.
• Assists with exterior and interior maintenance by ensuring clean, neat, orderly store condition and appearance, including requesting store or system repairs as required in manager absence, or as requested by manager.
• Assists with separation of food items (e.g., raw foods from pre-cooked) and product placement as specified by policies/procedures (e.g., raw and frozen meats on bottom shelves). For consumable items, assists in stock rotation, using the first in, first out method and restock outs.
• Has working knowledge of store systems and store equipment.
• Assist at Pharmacy out window as requested.
• Ensures compliance with state and local laws regarding regulated products (e.g., alcoholic beverages and tobacco products).
• Responsible for bag checks of team members before leaving the store.
• Complies with all company policies and procedures; maintains respectful relationships with coworkers.
• Completes special assignments and other tasks as assigned.

Skills

Leadership experience

Cash handling

Customer service

English proficiency

Education

Pharmacy license or PTCB certification

Job description

Walgreens Co. in Peoria, IL seeks a customer-focused associate to support opening/closing, checkout, and stockroom operations. You will engage customers, handle daily cash processes, and help maintain displays and pricing while ensuring compliance with local laws.

The role emphasizes delivering a delightful customer experience, coaching teammates, and upholding store standards, with a salary range stated later in the posting. This is a fast-paced, team-driven environment.