Vacant job

Do you have a burning interest in food and enjoy leading and motivating others? Then you might be just the person we are looking for.

Coop Andra Långgatan is a well-established and appreciated store with a good assortment and a clear ecological profile. Our opening hours are Mon–Fri 8–21, Sat 8–20, and Sun 10–20 to offer good accessibility for our customers. The store currently has about 10 employees and several casual workers.

As ST Store Manager (Second-in-Command Store Manager), you are responsible for all areas of the store within the mechanical customer interaction, where you drive issues and activities based on maximizing 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 in the store that lead to "Full, Fresh, and Fronted".

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

• Responsible for setting and following up on goals with action plans
• Work on continuous improvements of processes for example Team Picking, CAO, and minimizing FYS
• Responsible for the store's sales planning
• Responsible for efficient staffing for the goods flow processes in the store
• General store work and workforce leadership

To succeed in your role:

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

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

The assignment includes, and it may also become relevant, to cover for the Store Manager during short absences such as illness or vacation, which implies overall responsibility for the store.

We see that you have experience and education from retail so you know what is required to create an efficient and profitable business.

Coop offers you an exciting and stimulating management job in a business with all opportunities for you who want to develop.

The position is a permanent full-time employment with start date after agreement. Recruitment is ongoing and the position may be filled before the last application date. We apply a probation period.

Do you want to know more about the position, contact Veronica Jernberg, email: [email protected]

We value the qualities that an even age and gender distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the business. 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 grocery retail
• The position requires documented experience of leading employees
• The position requires documented good results in business with own profit responsibility
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language, in speech and writing, is a requirement.

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

The ongoing change means 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 having succeeded in recruiting many competent employees, we work together towards the future.

The new Coop should stand for attractive store experiences with good-value 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 business.