Top Benefits
About the role
Key Job Responsibilities Include:
- Oversee all daily store operations, ensuring safe, effective, and compliant processes.
- Manage inventory control, product purchasing, merchandising, pricing, and store presentatio n
- Provide leadership, coaching, and mentorship to Team Leaders and frontline employees.
- Determine staffing levels, participate in recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and employee development.
- Promote a positive, engaging, team‑centered work environment
- Lead budgeting, financial reporting, expense management, and sales targets.
- Support execution of marketing strategies, loyalty programs, promotions, and competitive pricing.
- Identify consumer trends and recommend product selection or merchandising strategies to optimize sales
- Ensure exceptional customer service standards are met consistently.
- Resolve customer concerns promptly and effectively.
- Maintain positive relationships with vendors, members, and community stakeholders.
- Represent Co‑op values and support its community‑focused mission
Education, Experience, and Other Requirements:
- High School required, with completion of post-secondary education in business or a related field considered an asset.
- 5+ years’ experience leading a mid-size to large retail food location, ideally within the Co-op Retail System.
- Demonstrated experience in inventory management, budgeting, merchandising, purchasing, and store presentation is essential, as Store Managers oversee operations from product flow to financial outcomes.
- Experience ensuring compliance with Food Safety, OH&S, and HR policies is critical due to regulatory and safety obligations.
- A proven track record of delivering high‑quality customer service, resolving customer concerns, and maintaining strong vendor and community relationships is required.
- Experience in vendor relationship management and negotiating supply agreements.
- Experience implementing or supporting loyalty programs and retail marketing campaigns.
- Familiarity with maintenance planning, asset protection, and store inspections.
- Experience with HR processes such as recruitment, performance reviews, corrective action, and employee development planning.
Personal Attributes:
- Strong Customer‑Service Orientation
- Highly Motivated & Results‑Oriented
- Honest, Trustworthy & Ethical
- Strong Interpersonal & Communication Skills
- Leadership Presence & Team‑Building Ability
- Ability to Manage Conflict Constructively
- Adaptable, Flexible & Comfortable with Ambiguity
- Organized, Detail‑Oriented & Strong Multi‑Tasker
- Self‑Aware & Growth‑Oriented
- Community‑Minded & Relationship‑Focused
If you are interested in this position, please visit www.heritageco-op.crs and click onCareers- Join Our Team!
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process to ensure an enjoyable candidate experience. Please reach out to the Human Resources team to discuss your needs if you require accommodation.
We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected to continue in the recruitment process will be contacted.
What we offer:
**A competitive Compensation and Benefit Package:**Our Team Members receive competitive salaries a comprehensive benefits package which includes Group Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability, Extended Health and Dental. and an employer-contributed pension plan, matched at 6% of salary.
Inclusive Work Environment: At Co-op, we embrace diversity and inclusion, and we’re working to create a workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We support and provide an environment that allows all to bring their whole selves to work.
Professional Development: We encourage our team members to take advantage of learning opportunities, to grow and develop and to foster a culture of teamwork and innovation.
Additional Offerings: Team Member Purchase Rebate Program, Team Member Volunteer Incentive Program, Home Centre Preferred Pricing, EFAP (Employee and Family Assistance Program), Team Member Fitness Rebate of up to $100 per year towards health/fitness purchases – Heritage Co-op values Team Members’ wellbeing.
At Heritage Co-op, we strive to be an employer of choice by creating a culture our Team Members want to be a part of and supporting a healthy work-life balance.
About Us
Heritage Co ‐ op 1997 Ltd. is here to serve our members and customers with products and services that help build, feed, and fuel individuals and communities. We are a different kind of business, being member-owned means that any profits are returned to our members and stay in the local economy. We live where you live, work where you work, and help grow the economy right here.
Not the right fit? Search for Food Store Manager jobs in Brandon, MB
About Heritage Cooperative
Heritage Cooperative is a farmer-owned cooperative that traces its history back to 1919. Heritage Cooperative is focused on; “Working Together. Winning Together.” with customers, members, employees, and other stakeholders. Operating under four product and service departments; the cooperative and its over 600 dedicated employees, serve customers throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, and Oklahoma from over 60 locations. The four product departments of agronomy, feed and retail, grain merchandising, and 1ST Choice Energy Services, assist over 5,000 farmer-members and 15,000 customers. The Heritage Cooperative brand umbrella includes 1ST Choice Energy Services, Shur Grow, Crop Advantage, Heritage Country Store, MAXGuard, and Heritage Show Supply.
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Top Benefits
About the role
Key Job Responsibilities Include:
- Oversee all daily store operations, ensuring safe, effective, and compliant processes.
- Manage inventory control, product purchasing, merchandising, pricing, and store presentatio n
- Provide leadership, coaching, and mentorship to Team Leaders and frontline employees.
- Determine staffing levels, participate in recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and employee development.
- Promote a positive, engaging, team‑centered work environment
- Lead budgeting, financial reporting, expense management, and sales targets.
- Support execution of marketing strategies, loyalty programs, promotions, and competitive pricing.
- Identify consumer trends and recommend product selection or merchandising strategies to optimize sales
- Ensure exceptional customer service standards are met consistently.
- Resolve customer concerns promptly and effectively.
- Maintain positive relationships with vendors, members, and community stakeholders.
- Represent Co‑op values and support its community‑focused mission
Education, Experience, and Other Requirements:
- High School required, with completion of post-secondary education in business or a related field considered an asset.
- 5+ years’ experience leading a mid-size to large retail food location, ideally within the Co-op Retail System.
- Demonstrated experience in inventory management, budgeting, merchandising, purchasing, and store presentation is essential, as Store Managers oversee operations from product flow to financial outcomes.
- Experience ensuring compliance with Food Safety, OH&S, and HR policies is critical due to regulatory and safety obligations.
- A proven track record of delivering high‑quality customer service, resolving customer concerns, and maintaining strong vendor and community relationships is required.
- Experience in vendor relationship management and negotiating supply agreements.
- Experience implementing or supporting loyalty programs and retail marketing campaigns.
- Familiarity with maintenance planning, asset protection, and store inspections.
- Experience with HR processes such as recruitment, performance reviews, corrective action, and employee development planning.
Personal Attributes:
- Strong Customer‑Service Orientation
- Highly Motivated & Results‑Oriented
- Honest, Trustworthy & Ethical
- Strong Interpersonal & Communication Skills
- Leadership Presence & Team‑Building Ability
- Ability to Manage Conflict Constructively
- Adaptable, Flexible & Comfortable with Ambiguity
- Organized, Detail‑Oriented & Strong Multi‑Tasker
- Self‑Aware & Growth‑Oriented
- Community‑Minded & Relationship‑Focused
If you are interested in this position, please visit www.heritageco-op.crs and click onCareers- Join Our Team!
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process to ensure an enjoyable candidate experience. Please reach out to the Human Resources team to discuss your needs if you require accommodation.
We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected to continue in the recruitment process will be contacted.
What we offer:
**A competitive Compensation and Benefit Package:**Our Team Members receive competitive salaries a comprehensive benefits package which includes Group Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability, Extended Health and Dental. and an employer-contributed pension plan, matched at 6% of salary.
Inclusive Work Environment: At Co-op, we embrace diversity and inclusion, and we’re working to create a workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We support and provide an environment that allows all to bring their whole selves to work.
Professional Development: We encourage our team members to take advantage of learning opportunities, to grow and develop and to foster a culture of teamwork and innovation.
Additional Offerings: Team Member Purchase Rebate Program, Team Member Volunteer Incentive Program, Home Centre Preferred Pricing, EFAP (Employee and Family Assistance Program), Team Member Fitness Rebate of up to $100 per year towards health/fitness purchases – Heritage Co-op values Team Members’ wellbeing.
At Heritage Co-op, we strive to be an employer of choice by creating a culture our Team Members want to be a part of and supporting a healthy work-life balance.
About Us
Heritage Co ‐ op 1997 Ltd. is here to serve our members and customers with products and services that help build, feed, and fuel individuals and communities. We are a different kind of business, being member-owned means that any profits are returned to our members and stay in the local economy. We live where you live, work where you work, and help grow the economy right here.
Not the right fit? Search for Food Store Manager jobs in Brandon, MB
About Heritage Cooperative
Heritage Cooperative is a farmer-owned cooperative that traces its history back to 1919. Heritage Cooperative is focused on; “Working Together. Winning Together.” with customers, members, employees, and other stakeholders. Operating under four product and service departments; the cooperative and its over 600 dedicated employees, serve customers throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, and Oklahoma from over 60 locations. The four product departments of agronomy, feed and retail, grain merchandising, and 1ST Choice Energy Services, assist over 5,000 farmer-members and 15,000 customers. The Heritage Cooperative brand umbrella includes 1ST Choice Energy Services, Shur Grow, Crop Advantage, Heritage Country Store, MAXGuard, and Heritage Show Supply.