Assistant Store Director

As a member of the C&S Wholesale Grocers family of companies, SpartanNash is a food solutions company that delivers the ingredients for a better life. A distributor, wholesaler and retailer with a global supply chain network, SpartanNash distributes grocery and household goods, including fresh produce and the Our Family® portfolio of products, to locations in all 50 states.

Our braggingly happy team members — ranging from bakery managers to order selectors; from IT developers to vice presidents of finance; from HR Business Partners to export specialists — create braggingly happy customers spanning national accounts, independent and chain grocers, e-commerce retailers, U.S. military commissaries and exchanges, and the Company’s own brick-and-mortar grocery stores, pharmacies and fuel centers.

Ready to contribute to the success of our food solutions company? Apply now!

Location:

45 East Columbia Avenue - Battle Creek, Michigan 49015

 

Position Summary:

This role leads the day to day activities of an individual retail store in conjunction with, or in the absence of, the Store Director, ensuring all departments are fully staffed, trained and operating to company standards. Cultivate a positive, high performing, and customer focused, store culture through effective leadership. Responsible to assist with monitoring all financial aspects of the store, maintaining the physical location, and communicating and executing the corporate plans. 

Here’s what you’ll do: 

• Assist the Store Director with overall retail store management including staffing, training, performance management and career development of associates, and developing and monitoring department goals.  

• Develop and monitor department budget as required.  

• Provide focused and effective leadership to store associates that develops a positive, high performing, customer focused store culture.  

• Responsible to assist with the overall profit and loss financial performance of the store to including budgeted sales, gross profit and controllable expenses.  

• Maintains constant follow-up with sub department managers to ensure budgeted sales, gross profit and controllable expense goals are being achieved.  

• Assist sub department managers with interpreting data and creating plans to achieve department goals.  

• Coordinates store activities to ensure successful operations and compliance as measured by various checks and audits (Safety/Food Safety, Human resources, Merchandising, Loss Prevention, Department of Labor, OSHA, etc.).  

• Oversee that the corporate Merchandising and Inventory programs are followed by the departments and partner with corporate business partners as needed to ensure that operations and merchandising standards are fully communication and followed. Implements and maintains work schedules, labor control and store payroll expense control programs for the location.  

• Implements the OWN IT! (One customer to Wow Now by Interacting and providing Total satisfaction) service programs, and models high standards of service to achieve a customer-oriented store.  

• Assist the Store Director with overall retail store management including staffing, training, performance management and career development of associates, and developing and monitoring department goals.  

• Develop and monitor department budget as required.  

• Maintain current knowledge of industry or local trends and best practices; make recommendations to improve current programs and processes.  

• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed. 

Here’s what you’ll need:  

• Bachelor's Degree (Preferred) in Business Administration or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience. 

• Three years of experience in a retail grocery environment with increasing levels of responsibility. 

• One year of experience in a supervisor or lead role, p