Associate Manager
Savers
Associate Manager
Savers
Secondhand retailer partnering with nonprofits
Job Title: Associate Manager
Who we are:
GreenDrop® is rapidly expanding to make donating lightly used clothing and household items easy, convenient, and eco-friendly.
By partnering with nonprofit organizations, we redirect millions of pounds of quality, pre-owned items away from landfills and back into closets and homes for reuse.
GreenDrop® accepts donations on behalf of our nonprofit partners and pays them for those items, providing critical funding for their missions. Community donated goods are then given a second chance to be loved again in local thrift stores. Learn more about GreenDrop® at gogreendrop.com.
[Footnote disclosure: GreenDrop® is a for-profit company and registered professional fundraiser where required.]
What you can expect:
What you get:
Comprehensive onboarding and training from day one.
In-house expertise! Our training department / Savers University develops and delivers robust training to every team member across our organization — from new hires to senior executives. We develop around 90% of our training internally, and partner with a variety of renowned providers to supplement our offerings.
Benefits offerings including:
Summary:
The GreenDrop Associate Manager role is critical to our success and helps to ensure that we reach our goal of providing exceptional service to our donors each day. This highly self-motivated individual will lead by example and demonstrate our Company's core values as well as respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Essential Job Functions:
• Train and coach the Associate Manager in Training role, new team members, as well as existing team
members on all company policies and procedures
• Responsible for actively engaging in the field with direct oversite to 20 to 30 sites on a regular basis
• Responsible for all direct report functionality of an Area Manager which includes hiring, coaching,
counseling, firing duties, tracking time, and any other people management/development needs
• Support Area Manager by reviewing applications, conducting interviews, selection of talent, and
completing onboarding activities
• Manage supplies, assets, and all maintenance requests at each site
• Ensures timely requests of all pickups are communicated
• Independently and collaboratively interacts with donors while exercising good judgment,
• Maintains a positive and optimistic disposition, and demonstrating a successful customer
• focused mindset
• Able to work independently without supervision and hold a high level of integrity and independent
decision making
• Builds a culture of customer service by providing donors with friendly, helpful, and efficient service in
every interaction i.e., impeccable donor/customer interactions, appropriately representing the GreenDrop brand while in uniform
• Assists donors and truck drivers with donated merchandise, including unloading donations from
vehicles; treats donated items respectfully; communicates the company’s nonprofit relationship; and
invites donors to “come back again” and to encourage their family and friends to do the same.
• Work efficiently and call for additional assistance as needed.
• Follows standards in place to protect Team Members and donors to provide a safe environment to
work which includes but is not limited to, picking up loose items on the floor, cleaning up breakages or
spills, cleaning and disinfecting to required standards, and following product safety guidelines
• Takes responsibility for reporting any hazard or injury to management
• Wear tablet holder while recording donor information in company iPad
• Continuously organize donations in the stock room throughout the shift
• Complete and send daily and weekly supply needs to the Area Manager
• Other duties assigned by manager
Job Description:
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Ability to lead and manage effective teams and lead within a team environment
• Demonstrate customer service skills
• Ability to identify problems and recommend solutions
• Attention to cleanliness, organization and detail
• Reliable transportation and commitment to attendance and punctuality
• Honesty and integrity
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing and possess excellent verbal and written communication
skills
• Ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and multi-task with minimal supervision
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of all information
• Basic math skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Willing and able to work a flexible schedule as position dictates
• Satisfactory pass physical and background exams
• Clean driving record
• Ability to work within Saver’s culture
Minimum Required Education, Training and Experience:
• High school degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 2 years in a supervisory customer service role leading 10 or more team members
Physical Requirements:
• Reaching overhead 30% of time
• Pushing and pulling 65% of time
• Standing 100% of time
• Bending and crouching 60% of time
• Repetitive use of hands 70% of time
• Grasping items with hands 80% of time
• Lifting and carrying 50 lbs
FLSA Status:
• Non-Exempt
Tools and Equipment Used:
• Cell phone and/or laptop for data entry
• Cell phone to communicate
• Use all company supplied safety equipment as defined in the operating and safety manuals
Travel:
• Must be able to travel between specified sites on a regular basis within geographic territory as well as assist in neighboring territories when needed
• Car travel within their territory continuously
• May be asked to travel to outside territories that travel by air within the United States
Work Address:
• Remote within specified geographic area to include but not limited to:
Savers/GreenDrop is an E-Verify employer
Savers runs a network of thrift stores that partner with local nonprofits to obtain donated goods and sell them in retail locations. The for-profit model provides charities with steady revenue while giving customers access to a rotating supply of secondhand items. It differentiates itself with a large, multinational footprint and formal nonprofit partnerships that create a reliable supply chain under names like Value Village. Its goal is to expand the store network, deepen nonprofit relationships, and grow value and liquidity, including through its public market listing.
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