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ASSISTANT GROCERY MANAGER
PURPOSE STATEMENT: To assist managing the grocery department to achieve maximum sales and profit while maintaining optimum store conditions.
SIGNIFICANT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To greet customers, respond to customer questions/requests/complaints and explain store policies in a courteous manner.
- To assist in making recommendations regarding the hiring, firing, discipline, promotion and evaluation of all grocery department personnel.
- To assist in orienting/training all new grocery department employees and retrain employees when necessary.
- To supervise/order all grocery products and supplies so as to minimize out-of-stocks while maintaining the desired grocery inventory turns.
- To supervise/perform: 1) preparation of the backroom for receipt of merchandise; 2) checking of the load for shortage/overage; 3) sorting of cases according to aisle or pallet for stocking; 4) stocking of merchandise on shelf; 5) building of displays; 6) storage of back stock.
- To supervise/perform: 1) cleaning of store floors, check lanes, carts, restrooms, parking lot and shelves; 2) safe use of cleaning equipment and chemicals.
- To supervise/perform: 1) loading of stocking carts/pallets; 2) transportation of cases to the sales floor either on stocking carts or pallets; 3) matching of the case strip to the shelf tag/stock; 4) placement of merchandise in the designated shelf/display position/area; 5) the "face/front" program for the front row of each display; 6) the immediate pick up/removal of all broken containers, packing materials/boxes from the sales floor or customers’ pathway.
- To supervise/perform the safety procedures used in the operation of the baler, case cutter, pallet jack and forklift, and floor-cleaning equipment.
- To supervise/perform the counting and recording of individual items of merchandise for inventory.
- To supervise/perform the manual price-marking/labeling of merchandise without a UPC code.
- To supervise the movement of damaged/unsalable and "returnable" products from shelves to the backroom, sorting of the materials into bins and the return of damage to the reclaim center.
- To supervise/perform the changing of signs, light bulbs, tags and price markers.
- To perform miscellaneous tasks assigned by the Grocery manager, substituting for absent workers and performing any additional tasks necessary to provide products and service to customers.