Grinnell Chamber

Service Manager

Full time
Posted: 09/11/2025
Grinnell, IA
Hy-Vee

Description

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Maintains a positive attitude; creates an atmosphere of friendliness and fun through flexibility and teamwork.
  • Generates a friendly atmosphere by encouraging employees to greet and speak to customers; providing prompt, courteous, and efficient service to customers and sets a good example.
  • Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring, concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store.
  • Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the employee’s designated department or elsewhere in the store.
  • Makes an effort to learn customers’ names and to address them by name whenever possible.
  • Assists customers by: (examples include)
    • escorting them to the products they’re looking for
    • securing products that are out of reach
    • loading or unloading heavy items
    • making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests
    • performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience.
  • Answers the telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call.
  • Performs as a leader and role model and maintains positive employee relations.
  • Plans, prepares, and adjusts work schedules and assigns employees to specific duties and follows up to ensure duties are properly completed in a timely manner.
  • Supervises and coordinates activities of employees in all areas of the store (in Department Managers absence) or performs the work necessary at all job levels.
  • Learns to formulate pricing philosophies or merchandise, following guidelines established by the Store Director.
  • Ensures proper customer service throughout the store and addresses specific customer issues.
  • Evaluates employee performance to recommend personnel actions in their respective area such as promotion, transfer, or dismissal.
  • Trains and enforces safety procedures to provide a safe and healthy work environment for employees and customers and fills out customer accident forms.
  • Works safely to prevent on-the-job injuries, fills out first report of injury, and assigns light duty as necessary.
  • Compiles, stores, retrieves, and understands managerial data (i.e. sales, inventory reports, ad and display projections/actuals, etc.)
  • Orders merchandise (new product, promotional, seasonal, or to replenish merchandise on hand), verifies delivery of merchandise, ensures quality, compares record with merchandise ordered, and reports discrepancies.
  • Trains workers in store policies, department procedures, and job duties.
  • Ensures compliance of employees with established policy/law, security, sales, and record keeping procedures and practices.
  • Determines location of ad and promotional displays, ensures product quality and quantities to meet customer and store demands and profitability.
  • Confers with employees and assists in solving problems affecting job performance and of established policies and procedures.
  • Explains store services to potential personal and business account customers to generate additional business for the store.
  • Understands the basics of store accounting.
  • Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress.
  • Adheres to company policies and individual store guidelines.
  • Reports to work when scheduled and on time.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

  • High School or equivalent experience.
  • Two years or more of similar or related work experience preferred.

Supervisory Responsibilities (Direct Reports):

  • Instructing, assigning work, reviewing work, planning the work of others, maintaining standards, allocating personnel, and coordinating the activities of others.
  • Selects new employees and acts on employee problems.
  • Has the authority to recommend employee transfers, promotions, discipline, discharge, and salary adjustments.

Physical Requirements:

  • Must be able to physically perform medium work: exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and 20 pounds of force frequently, and 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
  • Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or without correction, depth perception, color vision, and field of vision.
  • Must be able to perform the following physical activities: Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

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