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Alex Lee

Grocery retail and wholesale distributor

Store Manager

Retail Store ManagementPosted on Nov 5
Full-timeBarnwell, SC, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • The incumbent should possess skills and knowledge generally associated with a bachelor's degree.
  • The incumbent should have 3–4 years of progressive supermarket management experience.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain an in-store sales-building culture by executing company merchandising programs and weekly sales plans in each department, planning and executing weekly sales themes, ensuring in-stock conditions throughout the store, and conducting weekly sales meetings.
  • Provide desired levels of customer satisfaction, courtesy, and service throughout the store, with special emphasis on the front-end fast service commitment.
  • Achieve budgeted financial results.
  • Protect company assets, including merchandise, cash, facilities, and equipment; conduct weekly manager audits on front-end, direct store delivery receiving, and pricing; and follow through on required shrink management programs.
  • Control store variable expenses effectively, including achieving budgeted wage percentage.
  • Staff the store, including forecasting needs, recruiting, and training; build a talent-planning bench for the store, including developing and executing development plans for high-potential and promotable individuals.
  • Ensure direct reports understand performance expectations, hold them accountable for achieving budgeted results, and meet with them for ongoing and annual performance appraisals and feedback.
  • Monitor and respond to store conditions through frequent and detailed store walks.
  • Train and develop the store management team, especially co-managers, to ensure the company has a bench for sustained growth, and act as a resource for these leaders.
  • Ensure sanitation and food safety standards are maintained throughout the store, as measured through internal and external sources.
  • Create positive store morale through effective supervisory treatment and recognition, fostering an enthusiastic, customer-focused workforce embedded in a selling culture.
  • Provide and facilitate effective communication with the District Manager, Support Staff, and store employees.
  • Ensure stores comply with company standards, as measured by ALI audits.
  • Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and company policies.
  • Maintain a safe facility for customers and employees.

About the Company

Alex Lee

Grocery retail and wholesale distributor

Alex Lee, Inc. is a large, privately held grocery business in the southeastern United States that combines wholesale distribution with retail banners, owning distributors like Merchants Distributors, Souto Foods, W. Lee Flowers, and Import Mex, and operating Lowes Foods and Kj’s Market. It serves nearly 2,000 wholesale stores and runs more than 140 retail locations across 13 states, employing about 15,000 people. The company supports both wholesale and retail food sales and follows a guiding philosophy: if customers and suppliers succeed, the company succeeds, backed by ongoing innovation programs and employee development. Its goal is to achieve steady growth and profitability by helping customers and suppliers succeed and by offering a place where people can learn, grow, and build lifelong careers.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$400M
Headquarters
Hickory, NC
Founded
1931

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