The meat manager 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.
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 program.
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 product 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 health 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.
Performing other duties as needed or assigned by management.
With both customers and team members, remain helpful, tactful and courteous.
Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties.
Add, subtract, divide, multiply and perform other basic business math calculations.
Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures.
Be knowledgeable of a wide variety general department products (grocery, frozen food, HBC, non-foods, liquor, DSD and dairy), including their locations in the store.
Memorize product locations.
Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers so as to be able to fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including box cutters.
Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary.
Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members.
Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies weighing 30 – 50lbs.
Lift 50 and maneuver up to 100 lbs. while breaking down large and very heavy pallet loads of produce cases, boxes and bags.