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We are looking for an engaged and driven Sales Manager for Goods Flow to join our store team

Do you want to be part of creating a top-class customer experience where "Full, Fresh, and Fronted" is a natural part of everyday life? Do you have a passion for leadership, efficient working methods, and developing both the business and people? Then you might be exactly who we are looking for.

Coop Masthuggskajen is a brand-new store opening its doors in September 2026. As Sales Manager for Goods Flow, you will embark on an exciting and inspiring journey by being involved from the very start, giving you the opportunity, together with your colleagues, to create a world-class store.

About the role

As Sales Manager for Goods Flow, you will have overall responsibility for the store's goods flow and the mechanical customer interaction. You will be a key person in ensuring that our customers are always greeted by a well-stocked, inspiring, and pleasant store. The role is both operational and strategic, and you will work closely with your employees to achieve the store's goals together.

You have full personnel responsibility and lead, coach, and engage your team through clear working methods and goal management. Together, you will create routines and processes that make goods sales smooth, efficient, and sustainable, always with the customer in focus and strong NKI (Net Promoter Index) as your guiding star.

As part of the store's management group, you will be involved in driving the store's development, results, and long-term success. If necessary, you can also cover for the Store Manager during short-term absences.

Main areas of responsibility

• Ensure efficient and smart routines within the goods flow
• Lead continuous improvement work, such as CAO, Team Picking, and loss minimization
• Responsible for staffing and sales planning within goods flow processes
• Drive and monitor KPIs such as NKI, margins, sales, personnel costs, and shrinkage
• Work with action plans and monitor goals together with the team and management
• Contribute to the store delivering on the customer promise: affordable, sustainable food joy
• Ensure a safe and good working environment, both physically and psychosocially
• Lead, motivate, develop, and monitor your employees

We are looking for someone who...

...has experience from the grocery retail industry and thrives in a fast-paced and physically demanding work environment. You have documented leadership experience and can demonstrate good results from operations with your own profit responsibility. You are accustomed to driving development, creating structure, and working with continuous improvements. You are a leader who helps others grow and has the ability to engage, inspire, and create involvement within the team. You have relevant education or equivalent work experience, and previous leadership experience in a grocery store is an advantage.

With us, you will get...

...a developmental role with great responsibility and significant opportunity to influence the store's direction and results. You will receive support from a strong network of colleagues and central support functions. At Coop, you get a workplace that takes sustainability seriously – for both people and the environment – and provides you and your career with good development opportunities.

Education

• A minimum of upper secondary education is required. We prefer candidates with further education in e.g., economics or another relevant field.
• Leadership training

Experience/Competence

• The position requires experience and competence in retail regarding sales and preferably leadership.
• Good experience in leading personnel.
• Experience in leading change and improvement work.
• Computer literacy regarding the Office package.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written, is required.
• Previous experience with scheduling is an advantage.
• Previous experience with labor law/work environment is an advantage.

The pace in the store will be very high at times, which is why we are looking for someone who thrives and performs best when things are moving fast. We are looking for a creative person who is driven by creating a good culture among your employees where everyone feels involved. You dare to think differently, test new solutions, and easily bring others along towards the same goal.

The position is a permanent employment of 38.25 hours/week with a start date of September 1st or as agreed. Working hours vary and are scheduled during day and evening times as well as weekends. We apply a probationary period. Recruitment is ongoing, and the position may be filled before the application deadline.

Do you want to know more about the position? Contact Store Manager Mattias Hellohf via 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 to submit your application together with a cover letter and CV as soon as possible. Apply via Coop.se

Coop Väst AB has just over one million members and currently operates approximately 200 Coop stores with a combined net turnover of approximately 10.4 billion SEK. The association area stretches from Strömstad to Laholm in the West, and from Västervik to Borgholm in the East.

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

The ongoing change involves many challenges, but also opportunities. And you are never alone. If there is one thing 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 business.