About the Role
This role is responsible to lead the day-to-day activities of the department operations in a retail store, ensuring associates are trained, the department is fully staffed, operating at company standards, and meeting all company goals and key performance indicators.
Responsibilities
- Order and maintain inventory in your department, while utilizing inventory control procedures to ensure product freshness and quality.
- Review and validate received orders for amount, quality, count or weight, condition, and ensure all product is stored in appropriate areas.
- Manage a team that completes all stocking, production, and additional tasks to ensure product quality, production planning, accuracy, and date sensitive rotation, as well as ensure all spoiled/damaged products are handled per established guidelines.
- Maintain familiarity with all products carried in the department as well as throughout the store.
- Know the advertised items, special prices, coupon deals or other features that apply to the store's sales and rewards programs.
- Assure that the weekly and period Flight Plan are communicated and executed to company expectations and timeline.
- Follow company policies and timelines using the required tools and software to manage scheduling, according to forecasted guidelines.
- Implement and maintain work schedules, labor control, overtime control, and payroll expense for the department.
- Implement Our Winning Recipe and model our core values and competencies.
- Be responsible for department management including staffing, training, performance management, and career development of associates.
- Develop and monitor department goals.
- Develop and monitor department forecasts, as required.
- Attend and participate in daily huddles, manager meetings, as well as district and company level meetings via phone, online, or in person, as required.
- Maintain a clean, attractive, and well stocked department, by using structure of the day guidelines, as well as executing “Prime Time” standards.
- Assure that all food safety guidelines and requirements are always followed and maintained throughout the entire store. Take immediate corrective action if not followed.
- Assure that all safety guidelines and requirements are always followed and maintained throughout the entire store. Take immediate corrective action if not followed.
- Develop and implement a plan that results in meeting company goals and key performance indicators.
- Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
Requirements
- High School Graduate (Required) or Equivalent (GED).
- Two years of retail experience preferred.
- One-year supervisory experience preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication, and bookkeeping skills.
- Good organization, prioritization, decision-making, problem solving and conflict management skills.
- Strong leadership abilities with capability to work in a hands-on environment.
- Good strategic planning and business acumen skills.
- Good knowledge of retail store operations; knowledge of retail management systems.
- Proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Depending on company location, ability to communicate in Spanish is highly desirable.
- May be required to lift and/or move up to 30 pounds frequently, and up to 50 pounds occasionally.
- The associate is required to stand and walk for extended periods of time and may bend, stoop, twist and turn frequently.
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is subject to a typical retail store environment (varied temperatures) and is exposed to outside weather conditions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
- Travel requirements vary by assignment.
- We are not able to sponsor work visas for this position.
Skills
- Inventory control
- Stocking
- Production planning
- Date sensitive rotation
- Food safety
- Safety guidelines
- Scheduling
- Labor control
- Overtime control
- Payroll expense management
- Staffing
- Training
- Performance management
- Career development
- Goal setting
- Forecasting
- Communication
- Bookkeeping
- Organization
- Prioritization
- Decision-making
- Problem solving
- Conflict management
- Leadership
- Strategic planning
- Business acumen
- Retail store operations
- Retail management systems
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spanish communication
Location
- 1415 E Fulton Street - Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503
Work Type
- Retail store environment
Experience Level
- Two years of retail experience preferred
- One-year supervisory experience preferred
Education Level
- High School Graduate or Equivalent (GED)
Benefits
- Robust and competitive Total Rewards benefits package
About the Company
- As a member of the C&S Wholesale Grocers family of companies, SpartanNash is a food solutions company that delivers the ingredients for a better life.
- A distributor, wholesaler and retailer with a global supply chain network, SpartanNash distributes grocery and household goods, including fresh produce and the Our Family® portfolio of products, to locations in all 50 states.
- Our braggingly happy team members — ranging from bakery managers to order selectors; from IT developers to vice presidents of finance; from HR Business Partners to export specialists — create braggingly happy customers spanning national accounts, independent and chain grocers, e-commerce retailers, U.S. military commissaries and exchanges, and the Company’s own brick-and-mortar grocery stores, pharmacies and fuel centers.
Equal Opportunity
- SpartanNash is an Equal Opportunity Employer that invests in Associate development, recognizes and celebrates success, fosters two-way communication, and promotes a sense of belonging.
- We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals, including those with disabilities and Veterans.
