Grocery Manager Job - Full-time / Part-time

The Grocery Manager ensures that the Grocery, Dairy, Frozen Foods, and Beer/Wine departments are well managed, resulting in a positive shopping experience for Sprouts’ customers. The Grocery Manger assists in hiring, coaching, and training employees, as well as conducting meetings and scheduling. This position is essential in ensuring that products are handled properly, rotated to ensure freshness, and that date controls are performed.

Essential Job Functions

• Directs and manages all functions and activities of the Dairy, Frozen Foods, and Beer/Wine departments to achieve sales and profit standards.

• Directs team to deliver outstanding customer service,

• Identifies area for improvement in service and implements processes and procedures to address these issues.

• Assists management team in meeting sales, stock loss, labor objectives, and margin goals.

• Helps control costs by constantly monitoring and improving department operations to increase profitability.

• Helps to manage labor costs and reduce losses due to shrink, damage and pilferage.

• Monitors temperature of cases, shelves and storage areas and reports any failures to the Store Manager.

• Orders product and supplies to meet customer requests and the Company’s gross profit goals.

• Follows maintenance and sanitation procedures established by Sprouts for coolers and freezers

• Follows and enforces Sprouts’ Fresh-at-4 Program, ensuring proper rotation and organization of product and removing out-of-code items.

• Promptly handles resets according to schedule, including deleted and new merchandise.

• Ensures weekly sale items are ordered, stocked, and available for our customers.

• Monitors all vendors to ensure proper adherence to Sprouts’ standards.

• Assists in preparation of store for physical inventory counts.

• Verifies all deliveries against invoices, notes shortages and overages and reports them to the appropriate supplier.

• Enforces and follows department practices regarding the receiving and stocking of product to ensure freshness and quality.

• Participates with store merchandising (i.e. building displays, stocking, holiday and seasonal merchandising) in order to meet the profit objectives of the department.

• Ensures that all federal, state, and company regulations and standards for product freshness, food safety, weights and measures, store safety, employee safety, refrigeration, and sanitation are met.

• Ensures that department associates work safely at all times.

• Manages department staff to include: interviewing, hiring, training and development, delivering on-time performance appraisals, providing feedback, scheduling, counseling and terminating.

• Performs duties of staff as required.

• Other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 1 year managerial or supervisory experience which includes responsibility for managing a department/team within a multi-department operation within the retail, hospitality, or service industry;

• Degree in business preferred; or an acceptable combination of experience and education.

• Strong written and verbal communication, attention to detail, analytical and problem solving skills.

• Ability to work flexible schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

• Proven leadership ability to build, motivate and maintain staff

• Forklift/power jack training and experience

• Food Safety certification

• Ability to handle stressful situations

• Organization and planning skills

• Ability to delegate effectively

 

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This job has specific physical requirements that may require you to lift up to 75 lbs, to operate machinary with moving mechanical parts, bend, reach, kneel, squat, stand of a long period of time, or push/pull heavy loads.  Qualified candidates will be contacted. To learn more about all the benefits of working at Sprouts' and how you can become part of our growing team, apply on-line at Sprouts' Farmers Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

Posting Notes: || United States (US) || California || Tustin || 207-14945 Holt Avenue || Grocery Department Jobs || SF:NON ||