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Join the excitement! Become part of the team at Meijer's Independence Twp Market, opening in Spring 2025. We're seeking an enthusiastic Assistant Store Manager to help further our mission of enriching the lives of the Clarkston, MI community!As an Assistant Store Manager, you will be responsible for engaging employees and leadership to provide the best possible shopping experience for customers. Assessing the financial results of the store, implementing and executing appropriate business strategies to drive store profitability and results. Upholding the cultural standards and values via open, clear and effective communication. Identifying, selecting, developing, and promoting talent within the store.Apply today!
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What You'll be Doing:
- Evaluates P&L budgeted goals, designing and implementing labor and margin plans for the stores departments.
- Reviews sales, supply costs, and stock loss/shrink results; planning and developing goals to improve profitability and bottom line results.
- Designs department merchandise plans including (but not limited to) product ordering, weekly/seasonal assortments, lifts, displays & pricing.
- Leads all performance management activities for hourly leaders and employees; making decisions on pay increases, performance ratings, career development and promotion ability.
- Identifies and works with local vendors to source local products; determining overall product planning requirements such as quantity, frequency and pricing.
- Responsible for making key employee decisions around hiring, investigations and discipline, and terminations.
- Leads training and development planning for all new employee orientations and on-the-job training.
- Supervises a minimum of one hourly leader and three employees during any given shift.
- Responsible for planning, writing, and communicating weekly department schedules based on business needs.
- Plans and leads store events, community relationship building and organizing employee involvement.
- Establishes standards for teams to follow to ensure product freshness.
- Responsible for daily communication with team, leading huddles to share financial performance, customer feedback, and changes to store.
- Drives candid and open communication among groups during team problem solving and change management activities.
- Plan change implementation inside store to stay current with competitive retail trends (pricing, etc.).
- Responsible for and leads all store operations a minimum of two-three times per week in absence of store manager.
This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 4-5 years of retail/grocery experience.
- 5+ years of progressive leadership experience.
- Provide industry leading service.
- Needs merchandising, team leading, ordering.
- Someone who can DO MORE i.e. run the store.
- Capture someone who is high profile high caliber.
- Expert in seasonal and ethnic merchandising.
- Merchandises a farmers market feel.
- Demonstrate creative thinking and then apply to needed business changes.
- Self-starter write and then execute a plan how do you demonstrate business ownership?
- Understand supermarket math (gross margin, price point).
- Can manage retails off of moving costs.
- Develop team to achieve service, presentation, sales, and margin expectations.
- Understanding of COOL labeling.
- Proficient in managing cut fruit program and floral department.
- Proficient in inventory control management, cycle, and period inventories.
- Skilled in self-merchandising see the upcoming seasonal changes, write the plan, execute.
- Also applies to ethnic merchandising.