Vacant job

Do you have a burning passion for food and enjoy leading and motivating others? Then you might be exactly who we are looking for.

Coop Eksjö is a well-established and appreciated store with a great assortment and a clear organic profile. Our opening hours are 07:00–22:00 every day of the week to offer excellent accessibility for our customers.

As Merchandise Flow Manager, you are responsible for all areas of the store related to the mechanical customer interaction, driving issues and activities to maximize NKI (Net Customer Index).

You have full personnel responsibility and achieve your goals through your employees' performance. You are a skilled communicator who leads, coaches, engages, and follows up on your employees based on common working methods. The main goal of the position is to strengthen the customer experience and ensure that we constantly strive to streamline processes within merchandise supply to achieve "Full, Fresh, and Fronted".

Your role includes workforce management during the store's various opening hours. The work is physically demanding. It is highly meritorious if you have previous store experience working with team picking, online orders, and fresh produce. Your tasks include:

• Ensure that goals with action plans are established and followed up
• Work with continuous process improvements for, for example, Team Picking, CAO, and minimizing FYS (Freshness Yield)
• Responsible for the store's sales planning together with the Store Manager and Customer Flow Manager
• Ensure efficient staffing for merchandise flow processes in the store
• General store work and workforce management

To succeed in your role, you should:

• Be a skilled communicator who leads, coaches, engages, and inspires your employees
• Be structured and goal-oriented
• Thrive when you are "on the go" and have a lot to do

You are part of the store's management team and thus have overall responsibility for the store's results. In the management team, you primarily drive development and activities within the merchandise flow. You report to the Store Manager.

The assignment includes covering for the Store Manager during short-term absences, such as illness or vacation, which implies overall responsibility for the store.

We expect you to have experience and education from the retail sector so that you know what is required to create an efficient and profitable operation.

Coop offers you an exciting and stimulating management job in an operation with all possibilities for you who want to develop.

The position is a permanent employment of 35 hours/week with a start date according to agreement. Recruitment is ongoing, and the position may be filled before the final application date. We apply a probationary period.

Do you want to know more about the position? Contact Store Manager Helen Dellstål via phone: 010-745 04 91 or email: [email protected]

We value the qualities that an even age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the operation. Welcome with your application together with a cover letter and CV as soon as possible. Apply via Coop.se

Education:

• High school education is a requirement
• Post-secondary education is meritorious

Experience/Special Competence:

• The position requires broad experience and competence from the grocery trade
• The position requires documented experience of leading employees
• The position requires documented good results in operations with own profit responsibility
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language, spoken and written, is a requirement

Coop is one of Sweden's largest employers with many challenging jobs. We are in the midst of an exciting journey of change to be able to meet the food customers of the future just as well and naturally in our physical stores as on Coop.se.

The change that is taking place entails extra many challenges, but also opportunities. And you are never alone. If there is anything we are particularly proud of, it is our employees. By successfully recruiting many competent employees, we work together towards the future.

The new Coop stands for attractive store experiences with affordable food, strong own brands, a unique membership program, and clear leadership in ecology, health, and sustainability. In short: We want to be the good force in Swedish grocery retail.

With approximately 650 stores in Sweden and 3.4 million members, Coop is Sweden's only member-owned food chain.

We value the qualities that an even age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the operation.