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Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!
At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.
POSITION PURPOSE:
Build, review, analyze, develop, and deliver common ABS labor management tools and practices across all divisional retail stores for labor budgeting, scheduling, and results reporting. These tools will assist in meeting the company’s labor management goals and business initiatives.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Using newly developed corporate systems, provide by week by store by department labor cost budgets, either by a Period and/or a Quarter for all stores in the respective division on a regular basis. Working with the SVP of Operations, establish the labor cost objectives for all AVP’s and DM’s to achieve, while at the same time maintain or improve customer service and store conditions.
Recommend new equipment, methods and procedures at store level that could considerably reduce labor expenses.
Establish business requirements that create simple in-store user functionality of the company’s selected labor management tool, Visual Labor Management (VLM). Builds, specifies and configures the application setup to parallel the overall labor management business strategies.
Review and analyze new system software releases of the VLM labor management applications for labor forecasting, department schedule writing and labor management. Provide feedback to corporate Retail Engineering for future development requirements needed from our outside software vendor.
Utilize engineered labor standards within an electronic work measurement software database called MOST, to determine the labor requirements for tasks and activities by job by department to populate the VLM databases. Using the TTM (Time Task Manager) tables from VLM to determine the “Fixed & Variable” labor factors used for reporting productivity performance & future labor cost budgets by week by store by department.
Assist in organizing and maintaining a central data repository for all divisional stores, to include equipment quantities, equipment types, physical characteristics (store sizes & fixture lengths), polices & methods, etc., that affect the labor hours at each individual location. Manage the data distribution and refresh processes for new and existing locations. This includes interfaces for ongoing daily and weekly data feeds from POS, distribution centers, DSD and Rx systems.
Assist in the development, testing, and maintenance of a weekly/periodic Sales and Labor Tracking Tool for the management of productivity and labor expenses at store, district, and division levels to total-up entire company results.
Partner with the corporate training department in providing training content and material guidelines to create effective user documentation and training strategies.
Perform other productivity and cost control assignments, as requested by senior management.
Consults with DM’s, Field Specialists and Store Directors regarding: unique facility circumstances: discrepancies in actual labor hours versus standard; potential costs of changes due to competition, remodels, combo or dual branded conversions, customer service levels, etc., while keeping consistency among all stores, districts, areas and divisions.
Assists Real Estate in projecting payroll expenses and sales mix in their ROI calculations on new store sites, major remodels and combo conversions.
Serves as a liaison between internal departmental requirements and external support personnel in merchandising, accounting, payroll and construction.
Conducts training for management trainees yearly in conjunction with the Training department on the VLM Labor Management tool.
Assists District Managers in the coordination of the store closing process to include all billing follow-up, transfer of product, price zone adjustments on product transferred, and equipment consolidation and shipment, payroll, accruals, scanning retail reduction batch authorizations and final ad programs.
Consults with AVP’s on special shrink problems. Summarizes results of the store visits and makes suggestions to correct identified problems with the AVP’s and DM’s.
Quantitative/Scope:
Interfaces with Information Technology and Retail Operations Management to organize and bring together detailed activity data along with common and consistent systems to help store management control labor expenses. The objective is to assist in the integration of all labor management processes into a single integrated application. Help manage report and plan the $4 BILLION currently spent annually in all 2000+ ABS stores.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
Education Level:
Experience Level:
Skills and Experiences:
Possess excellent PC skills to include: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access
Multi-store divisional operations experience desirable
Above average analytical, organizational, and technical skills
Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication s to interface with personnel at all levels effectively
Demonstrated ability to simultaneously focus on a multitude of tasks and prioritize accordingly
Possess excellent communication skills and ability to interface with Division and Store Management teams.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: 30% travel
We also provide a variety of benefits including:
- Competitive wages paid weekly
· Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream
- Associate discounts
- Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
- Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
- Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
- An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
Our Values – Click below to view video: ACI Values
Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. Committed to innovation and fostering a culture of belonging, our team is united with a unique purpose: to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being. We want talented individuals to be part of this journey!
Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI) is a leading food and drug retailer in the U.S. We operate over 2,200 stores, 1,732 pharmacies, 405 fuel centers, 22 distribution facilities, and 19 manufacturing plants across 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Shaw’s, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets, United Express, Randalls, Albertson’s Market, Pavilions, Star Markets, Market Street, Carrs, Haggen, Lucky, Amigos, Andronico’s Community Markets, King’s, Balducci’s, and Albertson’s Market Street.
Our vision is to be a retail leader admired for national strength with deep local roots, offering an easy, fun, friendly, and inspiring experience, no matter how customers choose to shop with us. We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and strive to create a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and can fully contribute to their and our company’s success.
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Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. All employees must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel may vary within store and/or from store to store and the official job description will be provided during the application process.
Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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