Assistant Store Manager

LOCATION: Albuquerque Thrift Store

STATUS: FT

MISSION STATEMENT:

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

The Salvation Army Thrift Store in Albuquerque, NM is looking to fill an Assistant Thrift Store Manager position. The successful candidate for this position will be someone who has organizational and people skills and demonstrated ability to produce effective sales. This position is benefit eligible and comes with vacation, sick, health, vision, life insurance, disability and more.

The Assistant Manager will ring up sales, bag purchases for customers and keep the sales floor clean and free of debris. This position will assist in unloading donations and assist customers with loading merchandise. The Assistant Store Manager will have customer responsibilities including answering the thrift store phones and answering customer questions and concerns with courtesy. The ASM will work with the Store Manager to make achieving higher sales a continual process, encouraging staff and thereby making it a team effort.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in a thrift store environment
• Willingness to work as a manager in training
• Must have people skills and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to merchandise product and to produce effective sales
• Ability to work with the public in a professional manner
• Ability to mentor and train beneficiaries
• Customer service mindset
• Team player with a spirit of cooperation and work with all others towards goals set by management
• Valid in-state driver's license, with a clean MVR
• Willingness to work in different thrift stores when needed
• Must be able to pass a criminal background check

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation. A qualified person with a disability may request a modification or adjustment to the job or work environment in order to meet the physical requirements of the position. The Salvation Army will attempt to satisfy requests as long as the accommodation needed is reasonable and no undue hardship would result.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stand, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and reach with hands and arms on a continuous basis. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally help to lift and/or move up to 75. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Must have the ability to operate telephone, a desktop or laptop computer, as well as the ability to access and produce information from a computer, and to understand written information.