Assistant Store Manager

Assistant Store Manager

At Sprouts Farmers Market, the Assistant Store Manager is responsible for directing all business processes at their assigned store and delivering positive results. The role requires competency across all departments, both perishable and non‑perishable, ensuring the team executes all programs and processes to drive sales and efficiency. The Assistant Store Manager inspires and motivates a team committed to providing superior customer service in a fast‑paced, friendly environment while complying with company safety, labeling, health, and weights and measures standards.

In the absence of the Store Manager, the Assistant Store Manager oversees the entire store, driving store sales, team member engagement, and robust customer advocacy through strong, dynamic leadership to create success in people, processes, partners, and performance.

• Positively shape the culture in the store by modeling leadership behaviors aligned to Sprouts values.
• Develop the store leadership team to deliver an exceptional customer experience by motivating and engaging team members.
• Lead a team of approximately ten people (all Department Managers and Receivers) with courtesy, respect, integrity and care.
• Motivate and develop the management team by embracing, leading, advocating, and consistently modeling Sprouts leadership behaviors.
• Celebrate store successes and identify/address opportunities for perpetual improvement.
• Consistently evolve customer satisfaction by positioning and teaching team members to exceed customer expectations.
• Demonstrate advanced product knowledge when assisting customers and training store team members.
• Communicate expectations, policy changes, new initiatives, and product knowledge.
• Provide and receive constructive feedback and direction for effective communication and collaboration within store teams and store support area partners.
• Confidently and effectively address emergencies, crises, equipment failures, and resolve any issues that arise with a sense of urgency.
• Manage P&L – oversee inventory, labor, and expenses at optimum levels and meet targets as a rate to sales.
• Maintain compliance with all safety and food safety recommendations and requirements, as measured through Ecolab and PCR audits.
• Identify safety, security and loss prevention concerns and address them with the BPS team to resolve.
• Ensure federal, state, and company regulations and standards are met or exceeded, including labor, health, safety and sanitation laws and regulations.
• Drive sales growth and store experience execution anchored on Educate and Enrich standards to include consistent 8+ store conditions, ad directives, top item knowledge and department schematics.
• Master and create an obsession around top item in-stock conditions in all departments through effective fresh item management, perpetual inventory and computer-assisted ordering.
• Oversee inventory management, including ordering, receiving, unloading, breaking down, stocking, facing and rotating merchandise with particular attention to code dates and sanitation.
• Oversee invoicing from distribution centers and vendors. Report discrepancies to the appropriate supplier as needed.
• Lead Receivers and backroom organization, cleanliness and safety.
• Help build and maintain displays on the sales floor, compliant with company programs and standards.
• Verify all products are fresh, labeled and priced accurately.
• Oversee price changes and remain up to date on sale prices.

• Be at least 21 years of age.
• Have a high school diploma or equivalent; a degree in business management, marketing, retailing, communications, advertising or related field preferred.
• 1–3 years of retail experience; or an acceptable combination of education and experience.
• Have demonstrated success leading non‑perishable and perishable department operations with integrity, including profit and loss, safety, sanitation, staffing, disciplinary actions, training, developing leaders, conducting performance appraisals, meeting deadlines, managing inventory and shrink, executing sales promotions and merchandising.
• Professional communication skills, both written and verbal, with attention to…