Job Title: Opening/Closing Manager
Department: Grocery
Reports to: Store Manager
Exempt Status: Non-exempt
Safety Sensitive:
JOB FUNCTION: To manage the opening/closing shift to achieve maximum sales and profit, and to ensure quick, efficient customer service, while minimizing labor costs.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Customer Service - Meet customer needs with a smiling face and remember that the customer always comes first. Always make our customers know that they are important and special to us. Handle all customer questions and concerns
- Financial and Operational Responsibilities:
- Night Manager is required to close the store 5 days a week. Changes in schedule must be approved in advance.
- This position is a backup to the Store Manager. He/she must know all items on the manager's duty list. He/she, along with the Assistant Manager, assumes the manager's role when the manager is out of the store.
- Complete a store tour at the end of the day. Note the condition of the store and communicate conditions to department heads, stockers, and store manager prior to opening the following day.
- Provide backup for cashiers as needed.
- Grocery orders - make out, punch in, and transmit
- Get authorization from HR, Operations Supervisor, or COO before giving out loans or making payments out of safe. Unauthorized payments may result in your termination.
- Check all invoices for shortages and proper billing.
- Check all vendors into the store in front of the registers and under camera.
- Ensure that all policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Ensure that all resets and new items are worked into the sales floor.
- Make sure front and back of the store is kept clean and running in proper order with regard to state codes and regulations.
- Leave notes for the opening manager concerning events that happened the night before and what may need to be followed up on.
- Employee Responsibilities: (Coordinate all duties with the Store Manager.)
- To ensure that store opening and closing accounting procedures are followed.
- Be fair and consistent with all employees.
- Teaching - Continually teach team members how to best do their jobs.
- Update attendance calendars.
- Employee complaints - Listen to employees; give unhappy workers an opportunity to be heard. Keep accurate records of these situations.
- Inform Store Manager, HR, or Operation Supervisor immediately of urgent matters: discrimination, harassment, insubordination, suspected drug usage/under the influence, safety concerns, policy violations, accidents/injuries. Urgent matters are not limited to these examples.
- This position does not have the authority to discipline, hire, or terminate employees.
- Keep all information, including but not limited to medical, performance, and personal information about employees confidential, unless speaking to the Store Manager, Operations Supervisor, or HR.