About This Role
This role involves managing the meat department within a grocery store, focusing on sales, profitability, and operational standards. The manager is responsible for ensuring compliance, inventory control, and staff development, while also delivering excellent customer service.
Responsibilities
- Follow weekly company sales programs to attain maximum sales volume
- Achieve budgeted gross profit figures as established by the Meat Merchandising Department
- Carry out the preparation of all meat records as required by the Accounting and Merchandising Departments
- Follow all company policies related to weighing, pricing, packaging, and displaying of merchandise
- Unload trucks and maintain backroom storage
- Maintain coolers and freezers to standard
- Be accountable for inventory control
- Reinforce sanitation, safe food handling practices, security, safety, and company guidelines
- Assist guests and maintain good customer relations
- Consult with Store Manager to review meat operations, and advanced planning and scheduling, to ensure company objectives are met
- Be responsible for scheduling of the department
- Ensure the department is run in compliance with company standards (as measured by ALI audits)
- Ensure direct reports understand expectations for performance, hold them accountable to achieve productivity goals and meet with them to review performance and provide feedback (ongoing and annual performance appraisal)
- Be personally responsible for teaching and training departmental staff
- Build a talent planning bench for the department, including developing and executing development plans for all high-potential and promotable individuals
- Perform all other tasks as assigned by management
Requirements
- Skill and knowledge generally associated with a high school education
- 1-3 years of meat or supermarket experience
- Must be 18 years old
- Ability to lift 50lbs occasionally and 25lbs constantly
- Ability to read and understand information and direction
- Knowledge of meat operations
- Ability to supervise people, including training and development
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn multiple tasks and technical requirements on the job
- Effective communication, guest service, and selling skills
- Ability to bend, kneel, stand, push/pull stock carts for extended periods of time
Benefits
- Weekly Pay
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Short & Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
