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Assistant GROCERY MANAGER

PURPOSE STATEMENT: To assist managing the grocery department to achieve maximum sales and profit while maintaining optimum store conditions.

SIGNIFICANT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To greet customers, respond to customer questions/requests/complaints and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
• To assist in making recommendations regarding the hiring, firing, discipline, promotion and evaluation of all grocery department personnel.
• To assist in orienting/training all new grocery department employees and retrain employees when necessary.
• To supervise/order all grocery products and supplies so as to minimize out-of-stocks while maintaining the desired grocery inventory turns.
• To supervise/perform: 1) preparation of the backroom for receipt of merchandise; 2) checking of the load for shortage/overage; 3) sorting of cases according to aisle or pallet for stocking; 4) stocking of merchandise on shelf; 5) building of displays; 6) storage of back stock.
• To supervise/perform: 1) cleaning of store floors, check lanes, carts, restrooms, parking lot and shelves; 2) safe use of cleaning equipment and chemicals.
• To supervise/perform: 1) loading of stocking carts/pallets; 2) transportation of cases to the sales floor either on stocking carts or pallets; 3) matching of the case strip to the shelf tag/stock; 4) placement of merchandise in the designated shelf/display position/area; 5) the "face/front" program for the front row of each display; 6) the immediate pick up/removal of all broken containers, packing materials/boxes from the sales floor or customers’ pathway.
• To supervise/perform the safety procedures used in the operation of the baler, case cutter, pallet jack and forklift, and floor-cleaning equipment.
• To supervise/perform the counting and recording of individual items of merchandise for inventory.
• To supervise/perform the manual price-marking/labeling of merchandise without a UPC code.
• To supervise the movement of damaged/unsalable and "returnable" products from shelves to the backroom, sorting of the materials into bins and the return of damage to the reclaim center.
• To supervise/perform the changing of signs, light bulbs, tags and price markers.
• To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the Grocery manager, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and service to customers.

REQUIRED:

• Able to give/receive complex verbal instructions/descriptions to/from supervisors/co-workers/employees concerning store/department policy/procedures and use of equipment.
• Work and educational history demonstrating stability.
• The ability to read and write English. Able to read instructions, merchandise labels, warehouse order codes, numbers, reports, printed paper and forms.
• Make judgments concerning: the placement of merchandise on the shelf/display, pricing, employee scheduling, ordering of product/supplies, department conditions, hiring/supervision of employees, merchandising plans, departments’ operational policies and procedures and the sales/promotion of merchandise.
• Good interpersonal communications.

PREFERRED:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior Grocery Department experience.
• Prior supervisory experience.

TASKS OF THE JOB – This position generally involves:

• Mobility:

• Move while conducting training and orientation of Grocery Department personnel, approximately 75 yards.
• Move to supervise: the receiving of product, movement of product to the floor or storage area, opening/cutting of cases, inspect product quality, sorting of cases/merchandise, building of displays on the shelf and at end-aisles, the allocation of space in grocery categories, order merchandise and supplies, cleaning and maintenance, removal of trash/debris from the department, price-marking and signage throughout the store, approximate maximum 100 yards.

• Work on tile or concrete for a maximum of 8 hours in duration.
• Twist at the waist while cleaning, cutting/opening, sorting, loading/unloading, moving/removing merchandise and stocking merchandise.
• Perceive cases, case-cutter edge, case strips, shelf location, product size/description/quality, customers, shelf tags, labels on products, stocking carts, knives, department production equipment, cooler layout, packaging materials, debris on floor, aisle markers, and signs.
• Perceive color difference on product and product labels.
• Communicate with and respond to customers, co-workers and vendors.
• Respond to the sound of baler/pallet jack/forklift/cleaning-equipment operation.
• Use and respond to the intercom/phone system.
• Read case labels/case strips, signs, tags, equipment and chemical-warning labels, shelf signs, numbers and aisle markers, reports and operational forms.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Inside and outside work with extreme variations in heat/cold/dust/humidity from entrance/back door/compressors/cooler/freezer