POSITION PURPOSE: We are looking for a memorable Meat Team Leader who has a passion for food. Our Meat Team Leader will execute day-to-day operations in our Meat and Seafood departments and provide a memorable experience for all our customers. The Meat Team Leader will effectively direct and supervise all activities of the meat department and its personnel to achieve sales, profits and customer service goals established for the department. A Meat Team Leader is a responsible team player and always ready to learn. A Meat Team Leader has a keen eye for Food Safety and Sanitation and will be able to help in stocking, production, and merchandising while offering unmatched customer service.

 

Responsibilities: A Meat Team Leader is a responsible, friendly person who can safely work in a fast-paced environment and provide excellent customer service.

A Meat Team Leader’s responsibilities include:

Engaging with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and active sampling (when appropriate) and always giving a genuine thank you.  Observing and enforcing all store rules and company policies. Selecting and training new team members.  Scheduling meat department personnel.  Executing, communicating and supporting all merchandising programs.  Providing excellent knowledge of all fresh, processed and packaged meat and cheese products offered for sale.  Serving as the leader of his/her department, and as such an excellent role model, coach, performance evaluator and trainer for his/her team.  Creating department budgets and tracking financial reports (e.g. profit and loss, sales and expenses). Ordering products and supplies, auditing all products delivered, ensuring proper shelf stock levels for our customers and minimum levels of product shrink. Producing product, able to cut and package fresh meat, pork, poultry, fish and cheese items.  Ensuring compliance with heath department and weights and measures department requirements. Merchandising the department, service cases, self-service cases, frozen cases and wall deli cases according to department, store and company guidelines.  Achieving department sales and profits goals.  Controlling department labor, inventory, product out of stocks and shrink. Ensuring that safety equipment is maintained and used, and members act in accordance with company safety guidelines Safety sensitive position. All other related duties as assigned 

The Meat Team Leader responsibilities will primarily be in the Meat department but may also work in other departments as needed.

 

Qualifications: 

Desired qualifications include:

Friendly and customer service oriented. Interest in food and cooking a plus. Customer service, restaurant, barista, food service, grocery or similar experience desired Self-motivated, with a high attention to detail, quality and presentation Skills to communicate effectively with coworkers and customers Ability to work independently, effectively manage time and multitask in a fast-paced environment Ability to read, understand and follow through on verbal and written directions Ability to reliably meet required work schedule and adhere to company attendance policy Must be 18 years of age

Employees may occasionally experience the following physical demands for an extended period:

Standing, Sitting, Lifting + Stocking (Up to 50 lbs.), Pushing, Keyboarding, Telephone Use, Walking, Bending