Store Assistant Manager

Daiso USA; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Daiso USA in San Diego, CA seeks an Assistant Store Manager to support the store manager in operations, staff scheduling, inventory, and customer relations.

You will help ensure compliance with store policies, supervise shifts, and drive sales while maintaining a clean, welcoming environment for customers. Weekend availability and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 2+ years of work experience in retail or sales.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Experience with inventory oversight.
• Ability to meet sales goals and adapt to changes.

Responsibilities

• Improve customer service quality and store cleanliness.
• Recruit, train, and coach staff; build effective work operations.
• Manage staff, ensure compliance with rules, supervise shift planning.
• Place orders to avoid stockouts; manage inventory and loss.
• Execute sales plans; organize merchandise and replenishment.
• Monitor sales goals, basket size, shrink, and turnover.
• Manage cash handling and safe money procedures.
• Organize forms, documents, and store records.
• Oversee store facilities, equipment, and tidiness.
• Follow company guidelines and report issues to management.

Skills

Staff management

Communication

Inventory oversight

Sales goals

Education

High school Diploma/GED

Job description

Description

As an Assistant Store Manager, provide support to the store manager in the management of store operations. In support of the store manager, he/she is responsible for store staff shift management, labor hour control, human resource development, product ordering, inventory control, and operational management of product development. He/she is also responsible for ensuring compliance with store laws and regulations, and accurately reporting any store problems or issues to the store manager and instructors.

Essential Functions:

• Improvement of customer service quality, customer relations, cleanliness, implementation
• Recruitment, leadership staff training, staff counseling, and building effective work operations
• Management and supervision of staff, compliance with company rules and regulations, monitoring and guidance of working conditions and attitudes, and shift management
• Appropriate ordering, creation of sales areas that do not run out of stock, loss control, and inventory control
• Execution and management of sales plans, merchandise organization, and merchandise replenishment management
• Sales goal, basket counts, MH, loss, inventory turnover days
• Cash register float money management/Safe money management
• Management and organize forms, documents, manuals, files, and records
• Store, equipment and fixtures management
• Store security, crime prevention, store interior/BR organization and tidiness
• Management and control based on guidelines developed by the company.

Education Requirements

High school Diploma/GED

Work Experience Requirements:

2+Years

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

• Previous experience as a sales associate
• Experience in inventory oversight
• Strong communication skills and building good relationships
• Ability to achieve sales goals
• Ability to respond to the speed of change in the store/company
• Execution of head office information and instructions
• Able to lead store problems to a positive resolution
• Positive attitude, reliability, and cooperativeness in work
• Must be flexible to work evenings and weekend shifts

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