Assistant Store Manager Trainee

ASSISTANT STORE MANAGER TRAINEE (Finance)

Grow Your Career with Blue Seal Farm & Home! Do you have a passion for agriculture and enjoy helping your community thrive? Blue Seal Farm & Home, a proud member of KENT WORLDWIDE™, is looking for a motivated individual to join our team as an Assistant Store Manager Trainee at our Brattleboro, VT location. This full-time position comes with a top-tier benefits package and the opportunity to learn all aspects of running a successful farm and home retail store.

Under the guidance of the Store Manager, you'll gain hands‑on experience in:

• Store operations & maintenance
• Team leadership & personnel management
• Sales & customer service
• Inventory control & merchandising
• Accounting & business processes

If you're ready to grow with a company that's committed to agriculture, community, and excellence, we'd love to meet you!

• This position is designed and intended to be performed in Brattleboro, VT.

• Facility Management
  • Understand standard level of housekeeping and maintenance throughout the store, warehouse, equipment, vehicles and grounds
  • Learn security processes and procedures to ensure all security and safety systems are in order
  • Gain competency around Company image and ensure it is projected favorably at all times
• Personnel Management
  • Learn all company and store policies and standard procedures
  • Assist with recruiting and interviewing prospective employees making recommendations to hire
  • Assist with new employee orientation process
  • Contribute to routine employee meeting schedule to provide safety, store, and new product training
  • Ensure all employees are following Company policies, procedures, personnel and safety rules
• Sales Management
  • Understand store and grounds layout to achieve maximum utilization of selling areas
  • Supervise the display of merchandise for sales efficiency taking into consideration seasonal products and traffic
  • Assist in coordinating displays to coincide with advertising
  • Create in‑store promotions and follow through with Company provided promotions to promote traffic
• Inventory Management
  • Learn ordering process for feed and merchandise according to Company policies and procedures using appropriate forms
  • Gain understanding of market analysis
  • Assist in selecting appropriate product mix based on market trends and inventory turns
  • Learn pricing structure and proper margin levels for merchandise
  • Maintain appropriate contacts with suppliers according to Company policies and procedures
  • Learn store monthly and annual inventory processes
• Accounting Management
  • Learn invoice processing
  • Understand receiving process for all vendors
  • Learn cash management procedures and maintain security over daily cash and bank deposits
  • Learn to prepare the daily cash report
  • Verify all credit sales are within terms

• Associate's degree in Business Administration or equivalent of two to three years in retail
• Strong working knowledge of lawn and garden, agriculture and animals (Pet and Livestock)
• Ability to handle many tasks at any given moment
• Strong agricultural experience is preferred
• Supervisory experience preferred

• This job includes physical demands which include but are not limited to frequent standing, walking, working on a computer, push/pull and lift/carry up to 50 lbs. and occasionally sitting, reaching upward & outward, squatting or kneeling.