Title: Assistant Store Manager
Location: Alexandria, MN
Primary Responsibilities
- Support the Store Director in overseeing daily store operations and ensuring a positive shopping experience for customers.
- Assist with leading, coaching, and developing department managers and store associates.
- Help monitor sales, labor, productivity, inventory, and store conditions to support established performance goals.
- Partner with department leaders on merchandising, product displays, promotions, seasonal items, and overall store presentation.
- Assist with employee scheduling, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
- Monitor inventory levels, product quality, rotation, pricing, shrink, and waste throughout the store.
- Help ensure store policies, food safety requirements, cash controls, safety procedures, and security standards are consistently followed.
- Build positive relationships with customers, employees, and vendors while helping resolve issues as they arise.
- Serve as a leader on duty and provide operational oversight in the Store Director’s absence.
- Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
- Previous leadership or supervisory experience in a grocery, retail, or similar customer-facing environment preferred.
- Strong understanding of store operations, customer service, merchandising, and employee leadership.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers, employees, department leaders, and vendors.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and store needs.
- Ability to lead by example and maintain a professional, positive, and team-oriented work environment.
- Basic computer skills, including familiarity with Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to obtain required food safety certification and any applicable licensing.
- Must be available to work a flexible schedule, including days, evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of a grocery retail environment, including prolonged standing, bending, reaching, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
