Deputy Sales Manager - Bakery/Pastry Shop

ICA Kvantum Skövde is looking for

Deputy Sales Manager for the bakery

ICA Kvantum in Skövde is a family-owned company with about 70 employees. We work continuously to be Skövde's best grocery store, for you who want to live a little better.

Now we have completed our renovation throughout the store and are ready to take the next step towards being Västra Götaland's most modern grocery store with a focus on food and meal solutions.

As a deputy sales manager with us, you will be involved in and responsible for the bakery and soft bread area regarding production, finance, operations, purchasing, product development, and inspiration together with your immediate supervisor, the bakery sales manager.

Job duties:

You will be involved in ensuring that daily production runs smoothly and that every day of every week inspires the customer with assortment, inspiration, new products, and seasonal offerings from the bakery.

An important part of the job is working with proper communication, pricing experiences, and creating a unified structure in the department. Your responsibility together with your immediate supervisor involves planning, setting, and establishing routines, sales management, sales planning, maintaining sales pressure in the department, and constantly working to keep the department fronted, clean, and inspiring.

Each week, be involved in orders and campaigns, and the position includes working towards set budgets together with the sales manager.

Your work also includes stepping in as acting sales manager for the bakery and soft bread when the Sales Manager is not on site.

The position involves mostly production, customer service, and to some extent administrative work. The position includes weekdays and weekends.

We are looking for you who:

• have a burning interest in food, bread, and pastries
• love customer contact and customer service.
• want to be involved in creating and developing the bakery of the future
• have very good analytical skills and data knowledge.
• have very good financial knowledge.
• have very good leadership qualities.
• good physical condition as heavy lifting occurs daily.

We are looking for you with initiative and strong positive energy. You should be a role model. It is important to see the customer's needs and joyfully provide the best customer service. You should be able to handle stressful situations and have the ability to see the big picture in your work. You should be outgoing, enjoy leading a group but also be able to work independently.

You should also be structured and have good organizational skills, enjoy development and be engaged, have a focus on sales, operations, and creating good profitability.

Qualifications:

• Experience from bakery/pastry shop/grocery retail
• Good knowledge of store economics
• Are structured and have a good quality awareness.

As a deputy sales manager, you report to the sales manager for the department.

The position is about 95% of a full-time position. We apply permanent employment with an initial probationary period of 6 months. Start date for the position is immediate or as agreed. Salary according to agreement.

If this sounds interesting and you are ready to fully commit together with us.