Manager Assistant Store

**Job Title**: Assistant Manager Store
**Requisition ID**: 185676
**Career Group**: Store Management
**Job Category**: Retail - Administration
**Travel Requirements**: 0 - 10%

**Job Type**: Full-Time

**Country**: Canada (CA)
**Province**: Ontario
**City**: Malton
**Location**: 9618 Goreway & Derry FreshCo
**Postal Code**: L4T 2T9

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Looking for an exciting and fulfilling place to work? You've come to the right place

We love working with ambitious people who love food as much as we do. Whether it's your first job or you're ready for a new challenge, we have a career to fit your life.

Launched in 2010, FreshCo's commitment to delivering top quality products with lower prices and superior service to customers makes FreshCo stores a great place to work. Today, FreshCo and its franchise partners proudly operate 142 stores across Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.

**Ready to Make an impact?**:
The Assistant Store Manager works with the Store Operator to provide and communicate strategic direction and vision that has been customized for the local market as well as, to coach, motivate, and develop Department Managers to foster customer loyalty, fulfil customer needs, and actively contribute to a total store environment of employee and customer engagement. They support the fiscal operation of the store and will manage budgets, labour costs, inventory control, product presentation, and merchandising while adhering to all protocols, procedures, policies and other programs and initiatives.

**Here’s where you’ll be focusing**:
**People Leadership**
- Create a coaching and development culture for all store employees that embraces a passion for food
- Oversee recruitment, succession planning, orientation, training, performance management and compensation, as required
- Manage store operations in the absence of the Store Operator
- Work with the Store Operator to communicate operational requirements, operational changes, and store vision throughout the total store

**Customer Offering**
- Understand and respond to local market needs and competition
- Ensure superior execution of the retail commercial programs and provide feedback and recommendations to appropriate parties
- Role model, coach, and reinforce customer service expectations
- Ensure community presence by working with store management and community partners to host/ support community events
- Create a shopping experience that engages your customers in a way that enhances loyalty, sales, and profit

**Policy/Regulatory Adherence**
- Ensure all applicable company policies and procedures are communicated and adhered to by store employees
- Ensure that Occupational Health & Safety, Food Safety, and other regulatory requirements and procedures are implemented and maintained

**Financial**
- Support the Store Operator to plan and execute efficient operation of the business to achieve all financial targets and deliver on budgeted KPIs
- Manage training budget for total store as required

**Personal/ Professional Development**
- Thoroughly understand all relevant company programs
- Attend training as required
- Maintain knowledge of current industry trends
- Keeps up to date on local competitor activity, industry trends and makes recommendations on internal pricing, promotions, and product policies

**Employee Engagement**
- Be known as the “employer of choice” by actively supporting an environment of employee engagement
- Initiate, support, participate, and lead community and charitable events and activities.

**Other Duties**
- Order equipment and EMR
- Coordinate maintenance of store equipment and repairs as requested by the company

**What you have to offer**:

- Above average oral and written communication skills
- Full knowledge of retail operations and skills
- Proficient use of Microsoft office suite
- Working Knowledge of SAP
- High School Diploma
- Three to five years experience as a Department Manager

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.