Grocery Manager

Job Description: Grocery Manager

Last Revised: 04/12/11; revised May 12, 2017

Department: GROCERY

Direct Supervisor: STORE DIRECTOR, ASSISTANT STORE DIRECTOR

FLSA Status: EXEMPT

Starting rate of pay: $23.00/hr or $47,841.84/yr

Company Benefits:

• Flexible Hours

• Employee Discount

• 10 Paid Holidays

• (including 2 days for your birthday)*

• Medical/Vision/Dental Package*

• Free Life Insurance*

• Vacation and Sick Leave*

• Voluntary Insurance Plans (Life, Disability, Cancer, Accidental)

• Long Term Disability

• Wellness Program

• Discounted Gym membership-(YMCA)

• Matching 401K*

• Free Life Insurance*

• Vacation and Sick Leave*

• Matching 401K*

• Management Bonuses*

* For qualifying positions

Job Summary: Under the direction of the Store Director, The Grocery Manager is primarily responsible for assisting and working with the Assistant Store Director in all aspects of the Grocery department operations. Assists in the operation of the store with emphasis on the Front-End and Grocery departments. In the absence of the Assistant Store Director, the Grocery Manager assumes the responsibilities of the Assistant Store Director.

Essential Job Duties:

• Customer service
• Directly supervises 6 or more employees which includes the Food Clerks, Grocery Clerks, Chill/Frozen Lead, Receiving Clerks and all other workers who are working in the grocery department
• Trains and retrains all Grocery Department Personnel towards improved efficiency and increased job knowledge.
• Proficiency in the ITASCA system
• Assumes the roll of Manager on duty when Store Director and Assistant Store Director is not on duty.
• Signs and approves all deliveries and orders, clearing of invoices, price changes, merchandise credits, weekly schedules based on a set weekly budget, personnel information forms, employee evaluation, accident reports, building maintenance job orders and damage claim forms and has authority to sign and approve all other functions/documents w/authorization from Grocery Division
• Maintains and develops proper and good relationships with the various vendors.
• Complies with and enforces all store activities in relation to the various governmental and regulatory agencies such as OSHA, Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health
• Works, establishes and maintains good working relationships with all other departments within the store, and all other Grocery Departments within the Times chain to enhance and improve the merchandising of all grocery items
• Supports and promotes sales programs initiated by the company and at the stores
• Plans, organizes and delegates the day to day duties and projects of the grocery department.
  
  Follows up with the staff to ensure that all duties, customer service and special projects are being completed, and evaluates the grocery department staff and their work on a regular basis
• Prepares various management reports and schedules, such as, work schedules, sales projections, Budget reports, research ad movements, monitor price changes and all other communications and memos as necessary
• Attends DWH meetings and conference calls as scheduled
• Responsible for checking the sales floor on a regular basis to ensure that shelves are properly filled
• Reviews work methods for efficiency and safety
• Ensures that proper merchandising techniques are utilized
• Handles customer questions, complaints, accidents, special orders, or situations which merit attention or follow-up
• Understand, enforce and abide by all company policies and procedures

Other Job Duties:

• Ordering of merchandise manually or through the ITASCA system
• Daily Cycle counts of the grocery floor to insure ITASCA system is ordering properly
• Insures Reclamation is imputed daily, Display Collection and all other maintenance to upkeep inventory accuracy to maintain ITASCA information integrity
• Stock shelves, prepare sales floor and spot checks as necessary
• Planning, preparing and building of displays
• Oversees and implements price changes
• Receives merchandise and ensures that authorized items are received
• Reviews and controls inventory in the backroom
• Oversees the maintenance and cleanliness of the warehouse, grocery walk-in freezers, the dairy/chill cases and the grocery sales floor
• Ensures…