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Assistant Store Manager in Training

Home Depot • Broussard, LA 70518 • Posted 30+ days ago

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The Assistant Store Manager in Training at Home Depot is a role designed for individuals looking to learn the various responsibilities and functions of Assistant Store Manager, Operations Assistant Store Manager, Night Operations Assistant Store Manager, and Specialty Assistant Store Manager. This position involves supporting the Store Manager in driving store sales and profitability through effective leadership and communication with associates, supervising customer service initiatives, operations management, business analysis, and merchandise planning.

Responsibilities

  • Supervising Associates in the selling effort, ensuring the store's in-stock position, and maintaining an appealing and organized store appearance.
  • Supporting customer service initiatives through staffing and scheduling, identifying and resolving stock deficiencies, and resolving customer issues and concerns.
  • Supervising Store Associates including interviewing, hiring, motivating, coaching, training, developing, and communicating to associates.
  • Executing the associate disciplinary process when necessary.
  • Supervising front end processes involving sales and return transactions, as well as special services and lot support.
  • Overseeing back end processes, including receiving and freight teams to ensure merchandise is received and stocked appropriately.
  • Maintaining and operating all store equipment and systems, as well as managing daily financial operations.
  • Driving department profitability through analysis of sales trends and working with key partners to plan merchandise placement and signing.

Qualifications

Required

  • Must be eighteen years of age or older.
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
  • Knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.
  • 3 years of work experience.

About Home Depot

The Home Depot, Inc., often simply referred to as Home Depot, is an American multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals. Home Depot is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States. In 2021, the company had 490,600 employees and more than $151 billion in revenue. The company is headquartered in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, with an Atlanta mailing address. It operates many big-box format stores across the United States (including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands); all 10 provinces of Canada; and all 32 Mexican states and Mexico City. MRO company Interline Brands (now The Home Depot Pro) is also owned by The Home Depot, with 70 distribution centers across the United States. It is the sixth largest United States–based employer globally.

Full Job Description

**Position Purpose:**

Assistant Store Managers in Training are learning the various responsibilities and functions of the following roles: Assistant Store Manager, Operations Assistant Store Manager, Night Operations Assistant Store Manager, and Specialty Assistant Store Manager. At a high level, ASM's in Training will learn how to support the Store Manager in developing strategies and objectives toward driving store sales and profitability. They will learn how to accomplish these objectives through effective leadership of and communication to their Associates.

**Key Responsibilities:**

+ General Customer Service Initiatives to include supervising Associates in the selling effort, ensuring the store's in-stock position, and maintaining an appealing and organized store

+ appearance. ASM's in Training will learn the following tactics to support this key accountability: staffing and scheduling, identifying and resolving stock deficiencies, supervisor associates in selling behaviors, resolving customer issues and concerns, and supporting service needs for both installed sales/special orders and product sales.

+ Supervising Store Associates to include interviewing, hiring, motivating, coaching, training,developing, and communicating to associates. ASM's in Training will also learn the performance management process, to include semi-annual review of associate performance and how to execute the associate disciplinary process when necessary.

+ Operations Management to include supervision of front end processes involving sales and return transactions, as well as special services and lot support. ASM's in Training will also learn

+ how to oversee the back end processes, including receiving and freight teams to ensure that merchandise is received and stocked appropriately. They will also learn how to maintain and

+ operate all store equipment and systems as well as how to manage daily financial operations. ASM's in Training should develop a command of store standard operating procedures (SOP's),

+ especially those involving Safety compliance.

+ Business Analysis and Merchandise Planning Initiatives to include driving department profitability through analysis of sales trends. ASM's in Training will learn how to work with key partners (Store Managers, Field Merchandising, MET Teams) to plan merchandise placement and signing. They will also learn how to support stock integrity through inventory management processes.

**Direct Manager/Direct Reports:**

+ ASM's in Training will report to a Store Manager. Once complete with their training process, they will gradually assume accountability supervision of work activities of associates.

**Travel Requirements:**

+ Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

**Physical Requirements:**

+ Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

**Working Conditions:**

+ Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

+ Must be eighteen years of age or older.

+ Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ No additional qualifications

**Minimum Education:**

+ The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.

**Preferred Education:**

+ No additional education

**Minimum Years of Work Experience:**

+ 3

**Preferred Years of Work Experience:**

+ No additional years of experience

**Minimum Leadership Experience:**

+ None

**Preferred Leadership Experience:**

+ None

**Certifications:**

+ None

**Competencies:**

+ Acts with Integrity: Role model for ethical behavior; consistent and fair in dealings with others.

+ Product Knowledge: Knows and effectively promotes all areas, products, services, and procedures. Knows the competition

+ Excels in Customer Service: Creates customer focused environment; provides excellent service.

+ Inspires Achievement: Initiates actions to develop Associates; provides performance feedback and recognizes accomplishments

+ Safety Orientation: Enforces safety policies and procedures; is a safety role model

+ Delivers Results: Creates a sense of urgency; delegates appropriately; motivates self and team to accomplish objectives.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. - $0.00 - $0.00