Center Store Manager Sedalia West

Job Title: Center Store Manager

Manage Center Store departments labor, merchandising and gross profit.

Reports To: Assistant Store Manager

At Woods Supermarket, the teammate’s role is more than just a job. It’s an opportunity. Teammates gain life experience that goes far beyond just serving great products in a friendly and fun environment. Woods Supermarket is an opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds. We are looking for hard‑working, team‑oriented, friendly, and honest people. Perks of being a Woods Supermarket teammate include flexible hours, competitive pay, teammate discount, and a positive atmosphere!

Successful teammates will conduct themselves in a positive attitude and truthful character demonstrating D E service and Hospitality 4 culture.

• Manage all center store departments including grocery, frozen, liquor, GM, HBC, and dairy.
• Manage center store teammates.
• Involved in training of center store teammates.
• Responsible for a weekly display plan for end aisle merchandising and AD promotion.
• Responsible for allocation of shelf space according to movement, capacity, and profitability.
• Supervise and order all center store products and supplies to minimize out‑of‑stocks while maintaining desired grocery inventory turns.
• Greet guests, respond to guest questions, requests, complaints, and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
• Be observant of security problems and develop methods of prevention.
• Assist with back‑room preparation: receipt of merchandise, unloading of trucks, checking load for shortage/overage, sorting cases, stocking merchandise, building displays, storing back stock.
• Assist with cleaning: store floors, check lanes, carts, restrooms, parking lot, shelves; safe use of cleaning equipment and chemicals.
• Assist with loading stocking carts, transporting cases to sales floor, matching case strip to shelf tag, placement of merchandise, front row program, picking up broken containers and packing materials.
• Assure safety of self, guests, and co‑workers by understanding and practicing store safety rules and notifying store manager of hazards.
• Perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by store manager, substitute for absent workers, and perform additional tasks during peak periods.
• Assist safety procedures for baler, case cutter, pallet jack, forklift, floor cleaning equipment.
• Assist with manual price marking/labeling without UPC code.
• Assist movement of damaged or returnable products from shelves to back‑room, sorting into bins, returning damage to reclaim center.
• Assist with proper case opening and product stacking techniques.
• Assist removal of trash, operating baler, loading salvage onto trucks.
• Assist with changing signs, light bulbs, tags, price markers.
• Communicate with store manager on problems, recommendations, effectiveness of plans and merchandising decisions.

• Able to give and receive complex verbal instructions concerning store policy, procedures and equipment.
• Work and educational history demonstrating stability.
• Basic reading and writing ability; able to read instructions, merchandise labels, warehouse order codes, numbers, reports, printed paper and forms.
• Make judgments concerning placement of merchandise, pricing, teammate scheduling, order of supplies, department conditions, hiring and supervision, merchandising plans, operational policies, and sales promotions.
• Good interpersonal communication.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior grocery department experience.
• Prior supervisory experience.

This position requires repeatedly to perform the following motions:

• Sit, stand, stoop, squat, bend, reach, push, pull, grip, twist, lift, climb, carry, walk, kneel.

Occasionally and Frequently categories:
Sedentary, Light, Medium, Heavy, Very Heavy. The teammate must be able to perform the motions frequently or occasionally under the required strength level.

• Case cutter, utility knife, forklift (certified), pallet jack, compact baler.
• Slicer, oven, fryer, knives, mixers.

• The teammate will not use drugs or alcohol on the job.
• The teammate will not create a direct threat to the health and safety of others.

Woods Supermarket is committed to equal opportunity for all teammates and applicants. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), we do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic.

Employment may be contingent upon Woods Supermarket’s receipt of an acceptable drug test, motor vehicle report, and/or reference check, as applicable and permissible by law.