supermarket manager
Code 1420.5
The supermarket manager (administrador de supermercado) coordinates sections, perishables, floor logistics and a large team under volume pressure. Use this Job Dictionary profile to specialise retail leadership for the supermarket format.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- employment law
- sales activities
- cold chain
- medicines for self-medication
Skills and competences
- manage theft prevention
- recruit employees
- design indicators for food waste reduction
- develop food waste reduction strategies
- set sales goals
- study sales levels of products
- train staff to reduce food waste
- ensure compliance with purchasing and contracting regulations
- manage the store image
- enforce regulations of selling alcoholic beverages to minors
- enforce regulations of selling tobacco to minors
- perform procurement processes
- maintain relationship with customers
- maintain relationship with suppliers
- maximise sales revenues
- supervise merchandise displays
- oversee promotional sales prices
Transversal competences
- control of expenses
- manage budgets
- manage staff
- negotiate sales contracts
- perform market research
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- monitor customer service
- measure customer feedback
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What to assess for this role
Assess multi-area management, basic food safety and leadership on intense shifts.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a supermarket manager do?
- Integrates grocery, fresh, checkout and backroom to hit sales, stock and service standards.
- Same as shop manager?
- It is a shop-manager type with more perishables complexity and headcount scale.
- What to measure when hiring?
- Shrink and satisfaction indicators and ability to coordinate section leads.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences