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Manager, Center Store Market - 3401 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA 95355

The Save Mart Companies
Modesto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/24/2025
About Us

The Save Mart Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in California and Nevada. It is home to several well-known brands in food retailing. You might have seen our stores that include Save Mart, Lucky, Lucky California, and Food Maxx. We also have 3 distribution centers and our SMART Transportation trucking firm that transports dry groceries, frozen foods, ice, and novelties to all of The Save Mart Companies stores. We are a California grown business, headquartered in the heart of one of the greatest agricultural areas of our nation – Stanislaus County.

The Modesto community is vibrant with great traditions, educational opportunities, and multi-cultural lifestyles. Aside from mild weather year-round, Modesto allows for easy access to many major tourist attractions in California. To the west lies the San Francisco Bay Area (90-miles) and the Santa Cruz Beach (115-miles). To the east is the famed Gold Country “Mother Lode” (50-miles) and a little farther you can find the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountain range, Lake Tahoe (180-miles) and Yosemite National Park (110-miles).

Some of our competitive benefits include exceptionally generous benefits package (Health, Dental, Vision, Life, 401K), Lifelong Learning Educational opportunities, Employee Association (discounted and free tuition options, contests, and support services).

We Are Currently Recruiting For The Position Of

Manager, Center Store Market - 3401 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA 95355

The Center Store Market Manager will enthusiastically lead and develop a highly motivated team focused on passionately serving guests with a primary emphasis on the overall Center Store guest experience and team member engagement to consistently meet or exceed guest expectations and "Voice of the Customer” Metrics.

Purposefully drives knowledge and understanding of Center Store departments and local products through interaction and communication that inspires center-store team members to enthusiastically educate and serve guests.

Maintain positive relationships and nurture mutually beneficial and profitable connections with local vendor communities.

The Center Store Market Manager ensures execution of center store demos by identifying qualified team members that exemplify a valley proud culture to conduct authentic and engaging guest demos.

The Center Store Market Manager is responsible for proactively driving center store sales, profitability, and shrink identification opportunities while meeting or exceeding budgets and goals for all center store operations. The Center Store Market Manager collaborates with center store leaders to devise and implement strategies that control labor, utilities and other operating expenses.

The Center Store Market Manager will be assigned additional areas within the store as needed and manage the total store during the Store Director’s absence.

The Center Store Market Manager also has direct responsibility for selecting, interviewing, hiring and developing team members. The role is responsible for all facets of team member performance management, including evaluating performance, preparing and issuing performance reviews, coaching team members’ performance on an on-going basis, discipline, and making or providing significant input on terminations, promotions and other decisions pertaining to team member’s performance and advancement.

Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities

  • Positively directs all center store operations, conditions, product quality, and optimal inventory conditions to provide our guest with a great shopping experience. Excellent leadership/team building and decision making skills.
  • Develops, inspires and leads by example all center-store team members to promote an environment that exemplifies Save Mart’s valley proud and people first culture.
  • Manages all center store operations, oversees and directs team members to meet or exceed expected service and performance levels, including independently developing and implementing individualized and group training, coaching and directing work performance with an emphasis on advancement, and ultimately movement toward store management
  • Ensures compliance with Company sanitation, safety, security and other policies, and directs action plans to keep the center store in compliance with company and regulatory requirements.
  • Proactively addresses and is accountable for achieving center store financials (sales, profit and loss, projections, metrics, and analysis) goals by identifying, defining, and implementing best store practices and optimization strategies utilizing innovative solutions.
  • Responsible for center store visual merchandising, plan implementation, organization and is accountable for all sign and price processes and accuracy.
  • In collaboration with the Store Business Partner, The Center Store Manager manages and directs the in-store training for all center-store team members and is responsible for the professional development of all center-store team members.
  • Supervises, coaches and mentors all center store team member in the performance of their duties; independently completes performance reviews and provides actionable feedback; responsible for making and participating in team member advancement and disciplinary decisions.
  • The Center Store Market Manager facilitates the development and implementation of the weekly work schedules for all center-store team members to achieve optimal labor efficiency and service.
  • Spend no more than 25% of their work time performing non-exempt tasks, such a clerks’ work
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Hiring pay range: $70,145.00 - 92,065.00

Required Competencies

Skills – Abilities needed to execute job duties, Exceptional guest service skills, excellent communication, interpersonal skills, strong problem solving skills, mentoring skills, demonstrates initiative, collaboration skills, strong organization, administration and financial skills

Knowledge – Areas of specialty or expertise; knowledge of store operations and financials, store hazardous materials and food safety rules, products, visual merchandising techniques, use and care of center store equipment and tools, has a general understanding of employee and labor relations practices, interviewing techniques and hiring practices.

Attributes – Characteristics a team member must display in the job; for instance, outgoing, energetic, dynamic, enthusiastic and engaging, positive attitude, Inspirational leader, ability to accept and learn in various coaching scenarios, flexibility, adaptability, innovative, embrace change.

Job Requirements

Education : High School Diploma (or G.E.D. equivalent). Knowledge gained through formal education or certification (i.e. RMCP), specialized retail training, or additional grocery retail experience; some college is preferred

Experience: 3 years equivalent management experience, or 2 years in a current perimeter department manager role, and a minimum of six months experience in another department is preferred.

Physical: Requires standing and other physical movements on a frequent basis. Ability to sit, stand, walk, kneel, stoop, and use stairs. Requires lifting up to 40 lbs. without assistance, and reaching and pulling objects.

Other: Must be available to work a variety of required retail hours; must be forklift certified

Reference: req39872

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The Save Mart Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we welcome resumes from individuals who will contribute to our diverse workforce.

Salary : $70,145 - $92,065

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