Companies hiring retail & store operations in Germany
As of 4 November 2026, 1,130 companies are hiring retail & store operations in Germany, with 39,764 open roles; 25,812 opened in the last 30 days and Berlin has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Top city
- Berlin · 1,316 roles
- Largest role family
- retail sales associates · 64%
- Leadership roles (director+)
- 1 · 1 companies
- Remote share, last 30 days
- 0%
- Postings with a salary
- 3% · 198 companies
- Most-named tool
- SAP · 28 companies
Most new retail & store operations roles, last 30 days
Companies with the most new postings in the last 30 days; job boards and directories left out. Headquartered in Germany. Open retail & store operations roles and all open roles per company.
| Company | Size | new, 30 d | open retail & store operations | all open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HITIndependent supermarkets | 5001-10000 employees | 1,168 | 581 | 785 |
VALMANOFashion watch & accessory shops | 201-500 employees | 535 | 103 | 119 |
SIG Sales GmbH & Co. KGSales outsourcing agencies | 2-10 employees | 507 | 513 | 593 |
EDEKA DRILLERIndependent supermarkets | 51-200 employees | 442 | 484 | 653 |
REWE-DortmundOther general & specialty stores | 1001-5000 employees | 366 | 718 | 800 |
GLOBUSIndependent supermarkets | 10,001+ employees | 319 | 327 | 615 |
EDEKA MineralbrunnenMineral water & soft drink bottlers | 51-200 employees | 236 | 1,807 | 2,649 |
DOUGLAS GroupBeauty & personal care webshops | 201-500 employees | 191 | 258 | 348 |
HöffnerFurniture webshops | 5001-10000 employees | 171 | 55 | 184 |
MüllerGeneral merchandise webshops | 10,001+ employees | 149 | 653 | 887 |
JD SportsSneaker webshops | 1001-5000 employees | 130 | 156 | 175 |
SonsHair care product webshops | 11-50 employees | 127 | 137 | 183 |
McPaperOffice supply webshops | 1001-5000 employees | 121 | 116 | 126 |
BLUME2000Flower delivery webshops | 1001-5000 employees | 113 | 114 | 132 |
poco.deGeneral merchandise webshops | 5001-10000 employees | 95 | 119 | 241 |
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By city, seniority and role family
Postings, then companies. Cities as the posting states them.
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Berlin | 1,316 · 192 |
| Hamburg | 1,048 · 134 |
| München | 937 · 107 |
| Köln | 445 · 67 |
| Düsseldorf | 338 · 80 |
| Dortmund | 330 · 54 |
| Bochum | 319 · 39 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 297 · 62 |
| Stuttgart | 267 · 67 |
| Bremen | 259 · 55 |
| Essen | 259 · 47 |
| Dresden | 249 · 53 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Trainee, apprentice | 11,513 · 277 |
| Entry | 22,252 · 915 |
| Mid | 193 · 61 |
| Senior | 230 · 45 |
| Manager | 5,379 · 380 |
| Director | 1 · 1 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| retail sales associates | 25,523 · 770 |
| store management | 5,286 · 380 |
| fresh food and specialty departments | 5,159 · 250 |
| merchandising and stocking | 1,576 · 64 |
| checkout and cashiering | 1,217 · 104 |
| visual merchandising | 167 · 45 |
| parts counter sales | 157 · 61 |
| loss prevention | 30 · 7 |
Tools retail & store operations postings in Germany ask for
Office software left out. Click through to every company on a tool.
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Onsite | 1,606 · 116 |
| Hybrid | 6 · 4 |
| Remote | 1 · 1 |
| postings · companies | |
|---|---|
| Posted in the last 7 days | 4,895 · 254 |
| Posted in the last 30 days | 25,812 · 571 |
| All open | 39,764 · 1,130 |
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1,130 companies have 39,764 open retail & store operations roles in Germany; 571 of them posted 25,812 in the last 30 days. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/hiring/retail_and_store_operations/germany)
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Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →
- Job postingsRead hourly from the applicant tracking systems behind company career sites, with portals filling the gaps. Reposts collapse into one record; a role closes when the company closes it.
- Function and familyRole tree v2: every title classified into a function and a family, in every language.
- LocationThe posting's stated location, normalised to city and country. This page counts roles located in Germany.
- ExclusionsJob boards, directories and aggregators are kept out of company lists; staffing firms stay in only for their own hiring.
Retail & store operations hiring in Germany: questions
What counts as a retail & store operations role?
A posting classified into the retail & store operations function by our role tree (v2), whatever the title says. "Account Executive", "Vertriebsmitarbeiter" and "SDR" all land in the same function, then in a family such as retail sales associates.
Why is Germany the posting's country, not the company's?
This page counts roles located in Germany. A US company hiring in Berlin counts; a German company hiring in Paris does not. Company pages show the reverse view.
How fresh is it?
Career systems are checked hourly, so a role usually shows up the same day it opens and disappears the day it closes. Reposts collapse into one record.
Can I get the hiring manager?
Yes. For each company, the person the new hires report to, with a verified e-mail. The first 15 companies are on this page; the rest, and a weekly feed of new retail & store operations hiring in Germany, is in the product.
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