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Do you love food and are you ready for a career where people come first? At City Gross, everything we do is about helping and inspiring our customers to a better everyday life. Our hearts beat a little extra for fresh food, and we believe in people. We believe we become better when we have different backgrounds and experiences. Whether you are fronting freshly harvested vegetables, cutting the perfect piece of meat, ensuring the shelves are always well-stocked, or running campaigns that suit our customers' needs, everyone is here for one reason: to create an amazing customer experience.

About the job

Employment type: Permanent position, 40 hours per week, probationary period applies.

Start date: 2026-08-01 or as agreed.

Working hours: Early mornings, daytime, as well as some evenings and weekends occur as a natural part of the work.

What will you do?

Every day brings a fast pace and new challenges, but some of your main tasks will be:

• Responsible for planning, leading, and developing the departments within your area of responsibility – both strategically and operationally. You have team leaders and a group of skilled store employees to help you, whom you also have personnel responsibility for.
• Responsible for daily operations, staffing, optimizing sales and profitability within the Fresh Food area, and actively working with sales management/sales planning, waste reduction, and self-control.
• Create and develop routines in daily work, as well as develop employees and departments within your areas.
• Drive the departments and develop the business and employees towards set goals together with your employees.
• Ensure a pleasant, efficient, and sales-oriented work environment.
• You are part of the store's management team and report to the Store Manager. The fresh food departments you will be responsible for are Bakery, Meat, Fish/Deli, Fruit & Vegetables, Charcuterie & Cheese, and Dairy.

Who are you?

• You are skilled at creating and developing teams, are communicative and clear. You have a coaching approach, which means you delegate, give feedback, and follow up on work.
• You are strongly results-oriented and work efficiently to optimize the department's results and achieve set goals.
• You have the ability to inspire, motivate, and engage employees to create a positive work climate and a customer experience that exceeds expectations.
• You take on your role in the management team with great responsibility and can combine operational store work with actively contributing to strategic development issues.
• We place great emphasis on your personal qualities, not least your ability to inspire and engage employees to create a positive work climate.

We believe that you:

• Have a high school education, and master Swedish in speech and writing. Since our customers speak more languages than that, it is fantastic if you do too.
• Have several years of experience within retail and fresh food, preferably in a leading position.
• Have good knowledge of the fresh food departments.
• Have previous experience with self-control with knowledge of HACCP and work with food hygiene.
• Previous experience in a leading position or from another role with personnel responsibility, store economics, sales responsibility, staffing, and scheduling is meritorious.
• Are relationship-building and action-oriented with a great interest in customer service, people, and grocery products.

What do you get?

• Secure conditions – We have collective agreements with Handels and Unionen.
• Affordable food box – You get employee discount on everything from luxurious weekend dinners to quick weekday saviors.
• Parental leave with extra security – we offer enhanced parental leave pay according to the collective agreement so you can enjoy your new family member a little extra.
• A healthier and more energetic body and mind – We care about your health and offer wellness benefits, so you can stay active in the way that suits you best.
• Real career opportunities – Here you have the chance to grow! Many of our store managers started exactly where you are now.
• Does this sound like something for you? Send in your application – we look forward to meeting you!

If you want to know more about what the position entails, contact Kjell Lundgren, [email protected]. We would appreciate it if you sent your application as soon as possible, as the position may be filled before the final application date of 2026-06-29. We only accept applications via our job pages.

To determine if you are the one we are looking for, our recruitment process includes both tests and interviews. We verify ID and conduct background checks in all recruitments. Read more: How it works when you apply for a job at Axfood (#)

Note that we will not ask you to log in with your Bank-id or scan any QR code during this recruitment process. For questions, contact Employee Support via the contact form.