Regional Trainer Vitamin - Full-time / Part-time

The Regional Vitamin Trainer is responsible for overseeing, training and assisting the Vitamin department for the locations of the given region. This position uses company policies, procedures and goals to ensure the departments are running efficiently; working closely with department managers ensuring effective operations and utilization of our company culture in daily tasks. The Regional Vitamin Trainer reports directly to the Regional Director.

Essential Functions

• Prepare training budget for department or organization
• Evaluate instructor performance and the effectiveness of training programs, providing recommendations for improvement
• Analyze training needs to develop new training programs or modify and improve existing programs
• Conduct or arrange for ongoing technical training and personal development classes for staff members
• Plan, develop, and provide training and staff development programs, using knowledge of the effectiveness of methods such as classroom training, demonstrations, on-the-job training, meetings, conferences, and workshops
• Conduct orientation sessions and arrange on-the-job training for new hires
• Confer with management and conduct surveys to identify training needs based on projected production processes, changes, and other factors
• Train instructors and supervisors in techniques and skills for training and dealing with employees
• Develop and organize training manuals, multimedia visual aids, and other educational materials
• Maximize the financial performance of the departments in the region in a manner that maximizes the financial performance of the stores and company for the future as well as today
• Ensures the departments consistently and efficiently achieve company and department requirements for merchandising, store conditions, and customer service
• Assists Store Manager in ensuring department managers embrace the requirements of their job, do their job correctly with high skill, and achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively on their own initiative
• Assists in developing Department Managers and staff that will be qualified candidates for promotion
• Embraces the company’s mission and values. Provides role model to stores on behavior that aligns with the company’s mission and values
• Learns and embraces corporate and department service, merchandising and operating requirements
• Understand corporate and department merchandising plans, expectations and timetables
• Inspects store conditions, customer service performance, in-store merchandising, compliance to required scheduling and operating procedures and employee behavior to identify, on a timely basis, deficiencies against standards and unexploited opportunities
• Teams with the Store Manager to initiate action with appropriate urgency that corrects deficiencies and exploits opportunities. Corrects both the immediate deficiency and what caused the deficiency
• Inspects sales reports, wage reports, P&L reports, and other financial reports in order to identify deficiencies. Verifies that the store director and department managers have identified the same deficiencies and have initiated appropriate, timely action that will bring the deficiencies back within standard
• Assists the Store Manager in training and supervision of Department Managers to ensure they know, understand and perform their duties correctly, with proper behavior. Assists to ensure Department Managers achieve their objectives on their own initiative
• Influences the selection, promotion, demotion or termination of Department Managers in their region
• Ensures department marketing and display plan is executed appropriately
• Participates in setting financial objectives for the department in their region
• Communicates effectively with the Home Office and the Regional Director of Operations to facilitate the achievement of objectives for the store departments in their region

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor Degree in Business or a related field preferred; or an acceptable combination of education and experience
• 3+ years of previous management experience required; experience in retail grocery preferred
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills with an ability to champion new ideas
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office preferred
• Must be able to work flexible hours, including weekends, evenings and holidays

Physical Requirements

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position or that a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Travel to/from meetings and to various location
• Frequent (3-6 hours) of lifting items up to 10 lbs. a height of between 6’-7’
• Occasional (1-3 hours) lifting of items between 11-50 lbs. a height of up to 5’
• Rare (less than 1 hour) lifting of items between 51-75 lbs. a height up to 5’
• Occasional carrying of items between 1-25 lbs. a distance up to 174’
• Rare carrying of items between 26-75 lbs. a distance up to 10’
• Occasional pushing of items between 1-25 lbs. a distance up to 174’
• Rare pushing of items between 26-75 lbs. a distance up to 174’
• Occasional pulling of items between 1-25 lbs. a distance up to 174’
• Rare pulling of items between 26-75 lbs. a distance up to 174’
• Frequent walking and standing
• Occasional bending (neck and waist), squatting, climbing, kneeling and twisting (neck and waist)
• Constant (6-8 hours) repetitive use of hands
• Frequent simple grasping, occasional power grasping, and rare fine manipulation with both hands
• Occasional pushing, pulling and reaching
• Constant standing on concrete

This job may have specific physical demands including, but not limited to, the following:  ability to lift up to 75 lbs.; ability to operate machinery with moving mechanical parts; and ability to bend, reach, kneel, squat, stand for a long period of time and push/pull heavy loads.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. 

Qualified candidates will be contacted.  To learn more about all of 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.

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.