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US Foods

Supplies food to restaurants, hospitals and hotels

Assistant Store Manager

Retail Store ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeVirginia Beach, VA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least four years of experience in a retail work environment is required.
  • At least two years of management or supervisory experience is required.
  • Ability to work a flexible hourly schedule, including holidays and weekends, is required.
  • Competency and proficiency with computer use, spreadsheet creation and usage, word processing, email, and internet software are required.
  • Cash handling experience is required.
  • An associate degree or equivalent work experience is required.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the store's overall financial performance through product merchandising and stocking, expense control, and achievement of sales and profitability goals.
  • Manage front-end operations to ensure purchases are accurately recorded and front-end employees are trained in shrink control and customer service.
  • Work closely with the Store Manager to execute the Annual Operating Plan and related programs to deliver sales and profit results.
  • Recruit, train, and develop front-end employees and other assigned employees.
  • Ensure adherence to loss-prevention procedures and perform Manager-on-duty functions.
  • Supervise and coach employees in providing efficient, friendly service at registers and throughout the store.
  • Address personnel and performance issues, including coaching and verbal and written warnings; consult with the Store Manager and Human Resources about progressive discipline and termination when needed.
  • Ensure compliance with personnel policies and procedures.
  • Understand how the Annual Operating Plan and store operations translate into the monthly Profit and Loss statement.
  • Assist with Annual Operating Plan budgeting and achieve budgeted sales and profits while managing shrinkage, particularly front-end processes.
  • Participate in annual inventory preparation and execution according to inventory guidelines.
  • Train front-end and other employees on required programs.
  • Assist the Store Manager in ensuring staff compliance with company policies, procedures, and store standard operating procedures, and in maintaining a safe, well-maintained facility.
  • Interview, hire, orient, and train assigned employee groups.
  • Provide floor employees with day-to-day direction, including schedules, store goals, sales and shrinkage targets, and performance results, while performing Manager-on-duty functions.
  • Plan in-store product demonstrations, including preparing and setting up displays, distributing samples according to merchandising programs, and using suggestive selling techniques.
  • Assist with product receiving, returns of damaged or expired products, and timely shelf restocking.
  • Maintain store merchandising programs, including promotional displays, signage, and company- or market-specific programs.
  • Communicate merchandising and marketing programs to employees, assist with their execution, and complete follow-up reporting.
  • Analyze monthly store reports to evaluate controllable expenses and overall store performance.
  • Address variances from company standards with an action plan, partnering with the Store Manager as needed.
  • Ensure employee scheduling meets business objectives.
  • Ensure employees understand and can execute emergency operating procedures.
  • Accept special assignments as directed by the Store Manager.
  • Adhere to, communicate, support, and enforce company policies, processes, and procedures.
  • Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or required.

Desired Qualifications

  • Strong planning and organizational skills are preferred.
  • The ability and desire to deliver superior customer service and build professional relationships with customers while maintaining a consistent customer focus are preferred.
  • The ability to think quickly and critically, make sound business decisions, apply good judgment, and think logically is preferred.
  • Strong leadership, motivation, self-direction, communication, conversational, and negotiation skills are preferred.
  • Adaptability and willingness to assist with completing work needed to provide customers with fast, easy, efficient, and professional service are preferred.
  • Strong business awareness and the ability to review and interpret financial data are preferred.
  • The ability to work a flexible schedule that may include early mornings, late evenings, holidays, and weekends is preferred.
  • Competency and proficiency with computer applications and Microsoft programs are preferred.
  • A degree in Business Management, Supply Chain/Wholesale Management, or Accounting/Finance is strongly preferred.

About the Company

US Foods

Supplies food to restaurants, hospitals and hotels

US Foods distributes food, kitchen supplies and equipment to independent restaurants, restaurant chains, hospitals, hotels and schools across the United States, and it is one of the country's largest foodservice distributors. It buys from manufacturers and growers, stores products in regional warehouses and delivers them on its own trucks, earning a margin on each case it sells. Meat and seafood make up its largest product category, followed by dry groceries and refrigerated and frozen foods. Restaurant owners can order through its MOXē app, and the company sells its own exclusive brands next to national labels. Its roots go back to an 1853 grocery wholesaler, and it is based in Rosemont, Illinois.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Rosemont, IL
Founded
1853

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