District Manager Trainee

Job title: District Manager Trainee

About the Role Aldi is seeking motivated and ambitious individuals to join our District Manager Trainee (DMT) program. Over a 44-week training period, you will gain knowledge and hands-on experience preparing you to oversee multiple ALDI stores. As a district manager, you will work closely with store managers to ensure exceptional customer service, foster a positive employee environment, drive operational excellence, and accelerate sales growth. With ALDI's rapid expansion across the United States, this is a unique opportunity to grow professionally with a market leader that values simplicity, consistency, and responsibility. This position will cover areas within Greenwood serving Central Northeast Indiana and Louisville/Lexington areas. This role includes comprehensive training, career advancement opportunities, competitive compensation, and a supportive team environment.

What You'll Do

• Communicates job responsibilities and performance expectations to store management to ensure desired results; leads and develops store management personnel.
• Leads, develops, and supervises the assigned store manager team to develop sales, engage our teams, satisfy our customers, and achieve consistent high performance.
• Supports store management in fostering a positive working environment and sense of teamwork among direct and personnel reports.
• Develops and implements action plans using company-provided resources to improve operating results.
• Works with the store manager to recruit, select, promote and determine store assignments for personnel reports to ensure proper and adequate staffing of each location within the district.
• Confers with direct reports regarding advancement, discipline or termination of personnel.
• Trains and develops direct reports to ensure personnel reports achieve their maximum professional potential, using company-provided training materials.
• Observes and evaluates store employees’ work performance and collaborates with the store manager to provide feedback and coaching as appropriate.
• Collaborates with store manager to oversee the appropriate resolution of escalated employee and customer concerns.
• Understands and oversees execution of the overarching company strategy while communicating and modeling the core values of the organization.
• Communicates, cooperates and interacts effectively with all levels of ALDI employees, customers, third-party vendors and business partners.
• Reviews, investigates and resolves issues that arise within the district to minimize potential liability for the division and the company.
• Oversees and ensures store managements’ compliance with established policies and procedures within the district, as well as applicable federal, state and local regulations.
• Ensures store managers are appropriately coaching store personnel to comply with company customer service guidelines and demonstrates appropriate interactions with customers and co-workers. Resolves concerns from store personnel and customers, and/or refers such concerns to the director store operations as necessary.
• Models, communicates and supervises compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Ensures a safe working environment by supporting the store manager in identifying and supervising the resolution of hazards and equipment and ergonomic issues.
• Supervises adherence to company expense guidelines, inventory procedures, product handling, and cash handling policies and standard operating procedures to minimize losses and achieve financial targets.
• Takes action to address issues, as necessary.
• Ensures store managers effectively oversee personnel to maintain store zone standards and merchandising standards at all times.
• Supervises the achievement of store KPI results and takes action to develop and implement personnel and operational plans to achieve district goals and budgets.
• Plans and conducts meetings such as district weekly operations calls and monthly one-to-ones, training sessions and other company-related events as communicated using company-provided materials at the prescribed frequency.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Ability to develop rapport, trust, and open communication that enhances the performance of direct reports; ability to facilitate group involvement when conducting meetings; develop positive relationships with internal and external parties; ability to interpret and apply ALDI operating policies and procedures; problem solving; conflict management; negotiation; knowledge of HR management and the ability to manage store personnel relating to recruitment, selection, training, development, motivation, retention and separation; ability to evaluate financial performance and apply such data to decision making; strong verbal and written communication including the ability to prepare written materials; ability to organize, prioritize and complete activities; attention to detail.
• Travel: Domestic travel is required daily.

Compensation & Benefits

• Starting salary: $95,000 per year
• Signing bonus: $5,000
• Salary progression: Year 2 $110,000; Year 3 $120,000; Year 4 $130,000
• Comprehensive training, career advancement opportunities, competitive compensation, and a supportive team environment.